Livestock function as ecosystem engineers on rangelands as they both directly and indirectly influence availability of resources to organisms by inducing changes in vegetation structure and/or composition. While livestock have traditionally been viewed primarily as products from rangelands, contemporary issues addressing provision of multiple ecosystem goods and services provides new opportunities for using livestock as an essential "tool in the toolbox" to deal with emergent production-conservation issues. Here, examples from using livestock alone or in combination with other disturbances are provided from the shortgrass steppe to illustrate how livestock can be used as ecosystem engineers to provide necessary habitat for a grassland bird species of concern. Production-conservation synergies and tradeoffs are demonstrated with an emphasis on livestock production and associated economic considerations for land managers. A framework for moving towards "win-win" solutions with production-conservation issues will be presented to showcase how land managers can effectively implement the use of livestock as ecosystem engineers on rangelands to provide goods and services desired by society.