Ecosystem services provide the ecological foundation for landscape stewardship. Variables that change slowly, such as soils, vegetation structure and species diversity, are critical to sustain because they govern ecosystem processes over the long term. Provisioning services, the goods produced by ecosystems and harvested by people, are often fast variables that are readily monetized and are therefore recognized as a high priority for management. Regulating services link ecosystems across landscapes and regions and are uniquely important to stewardship at landscape scales. Cultural services are non-material benefits, such as recreation and time spent on the land, that strongly influence people’s sense of identity, their attachment to places and their commitment to stewardship actions. Ecosystems that maintain their characteristic properties provide a broad spectrum of ecosystem services with minimal management effort. At a finer level of resolution, bundles of services can be identified that have particularly tight linkages. This creates synergies in which management practices that sustain a few key services also sustain other synergistic services.