To protect remaining wild lands and sustain working landscapes, many conservation efforts today operate at the landscape scale. To be successful at this large scale, these efforts must integrate ecological, cultural, and recreational values with economic and community development. As a result, the practice of landscape–scale conservation is complex and challenging: it requires working across political and ecosystem boundaries, adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, and involves the collaboration of many organizations.

In spring 2003, the Institute initiated an annual lecture series co-sponsored with the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. The series, titled “Conservation at the Landscape Scale: Emerging Models and Strategies,” invites leading experts to share their experiences in working on large-scale landscape conservation initiatives.

Selected lectures and panel discussions are broadcast nationally through the NPS distance learning network and videos are also available on our website http://www.nps.gov/ csi/trends/uvm_lecture_series. htm. A new thematic issue of the George Wright Forum dedicated to landscape– scale conservation based on this lecture series is available from the George Wright Society at http://www.georgewright.org/forum.html.

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Kathleen Fitzgerald, executive director and co-founder,
Northeast Wilderness Trust.

Don Murphy, deputy director,
National Park Service.

Gustavo Fonseco, executive vice president,
Conservation International. Dr. Fonseco also participated in a panel discussion moderated by CSI director Nora Mitchell, which was broadcast to sites across the U.S. as a distance learning event. Luis Vivanco, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Vermont and Jessica Brown, vice president for international programs at QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment, served as panelists.

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Brenda Barrett, national coordinator for heritage areas,
National Park Service.

Jeffrey McNeely, chief scientist,
IUCN–The World Conservation Union. Dr. McNeely also participated in a panel discussion moderated by CSI director Nora Mitchell, which was broadcast to sites across the U.S. as a distance learning event. Mike Soukup, NPS associate director for natural resources stewardship and science, and Jessica Brown, vice president for international programs at QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment, served as panelists.

Liz Thompson, consulting conservation biologist,
University of Vermont.

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Dr. Reed Noss, Davis-Shine professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Central Florida and chief scientist for the Wildlands Project.

Adrian Phillips, senior advisor to IUCN’s World Heritage Programme.
Mr. Phillips also participated in a panel discussion moderated by CSI director Nora Mitchell, which was broadcast to sites across the U.S. as the Institute’s first distance learning event with a viewer call-in component. Mike Soukup, NPS associate director for natural resources stewardship and science, and Jessica Brown, vice president for international programs at QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment, were on the panel.

Nancy Bell, Vermont director for The Conservation Fund.