In this Brown Bag Lecture, Dr. Allison Ford will discuss how conservation scientists navigate conversations about conservation and climate change with ranchers and farmers who may hold conflicting environmental and political worldviews? This talk shares progress on an ongoing ethnographic study on collaborative conservation of working lands in California. Based on interviews primarily with conservation biologists who work in the field, I explore the social nature of ecological work and the strategies that scientists use to develop trust with ranchers, farmers, and land managers. Preliminary interview and observation data suggest that much of what is characterized as scientific labor, is in fact emotional and relational labor best understood as carework. I explore the connection between feminist concepts of carework and ecological concepts of stewardship, and its implications for navigating changing ecological conditions and climate change in everyday life.