New report from Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition explores governance structures and processes of landscape partnerships.
Article from The Pew Charitable Trusts highlights how forest collaboratives build trust and innovative thinking to yield durable solutions for healthy forests and communities—in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Congress passes the National Heritage Area Act, creating a formal system for America’s national heritage areas and designating seven new ones to help communities protect priceless, diverse American historical landscapes.
Why conserving 30×30 is more than a numbers game: Center for American Progress article argues that America's first national conservation goal should be viewed as an inclusive call to action and not just a narrow accounting exercise.
The America the Beautiful For All Coalition announces its Policy Agenda for 2023.
The National Estuarine Research Reserve System Science Collaborative program's Guide to Collaborative Science compiles examples, tips, and tools to advance a knowledge co-creation process to inform natural resource management decisions by involving scientists, managers, communities, and others to advance understanding in a manner that none of them working alone could accomplish.
Blogpost from 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People highlights the power of locally-led, multi-stakeholder solutions in building climate resilience at a landscape scale.
GreenLatinos and partners release the Latino Climate Justice Framework, a first-of-its-kind report that focuses on the issues disproportionately affecting Latino/a/x communities and providing a blueprint for equitable futures on dimensions of conservation, including public land conservation, access to nature, freedom from fossil fuel extraction, and improved public processes for land management.
The Hewlett Foundation highlights Latino leaders that are centering relationships and community to defend conservation progress, advance new efforts, and broaden the base of support for durable conservation policies and protections.
Article from the Center for American Progress makes the case that the climate and biodiversity crises must be addressed in tandem.
New England Forestry Foundation blogpost highlights how a broad, locally-led partnership in western Massachusetts is working to revitalize a forest-based economy utilizing climate-resilient and ecologically based forestry in order to carefully steward the landscape and the benefits it provides.
Yale E360 article spotlights Long Island’s Hempstead Plains Preserve to explore how “conservation gardens”—seemingly small and inconsequential—can have a major ecological impact.
Interview with Deputy to the Commanding General at Fort Huachuca highlights reflects on the Sentinel Landscape program and the symbiosis between land conservation and military mission.
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The National Wildlife Federation launches a searchable database for communities interested in implementing nature-based solutions, aiming to connect community planners and other stakeholders with sources of federal funding for infrastructure projects that incorporate natural elements.
U.S. Climate Alliance release Natural and Working Lands and Climate Action: A State Guide to Enhance the Sector’s Contribution to State and National Climate Goals, a new resource to help states further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and maximize carbon sequestration and storage from natural and working lands, including forests and woodlands, grasslands and shrublands, croplands and rangelands, wetlands, and urban green spaces.
To advance its ‘Confronting the Wildfire Crisis’ strategy, the U.S. Forest Service announces 11 additional landscapes—following a year of progress in collaborating with partners across the 10 initial landscapes identified in 2022 to address wildfire risk to infrastructure and communities.
The Bezos Earth Fund continues its partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, providing an additional $30 Million investment for a second year of funding to focus on the Northern Great Plains and Longleaf Pine regions.
New report from the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition synthesizes case studies on best practices and lessons learned for effective collaborative engagement in National Forest management in the Pacific Northwest.
Article from the Conservation Finance Network highlights how centering Indigenous people and local communities in nature-based carbon credit projects is essential for delivering real and lasting climate benefits.
Article in The Fence Post highlights how the Wyoming Big Game Conservation Partnership is a model to improve wildlife migration corridors across landscapes while supporting private farms and ranches.
“Make the stories of your landscapes louder:” An article from The Nature of Cities reflects on the experiences of tending a garden in an urban context to draw broader insights into how we give meaning to the places and landscapes—at any scale—that we cherish.
Connectivity policy has made conspicuous progress at the federal and state level in recent months, and momentum is also building at a more local level—Conservation Corridor highlights a sample of existing county policies and plans that promote mechanisms to achieve wildlife habitat connectivity.
Blogpost offers insights and lessons learned from on-the-ground leaders for utilizing water funds to achieve Nature-based Solutions.
