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Sc a ling Up

#22 Promote large landscape conservation to support healthy ecosystems and cultural resources. #31 Accelerate the spread of ideas, encourage innovation, and inspire peer-to-peer collaboration across the Service.

Co nfe re nc e a t a Gla nc e

43% 33% 5% 11% 6%

Attendee Affiliation

Federal employees NGO representatives State, local or tribal Academic institutions Commercial or consultant Landowners or organization (1%) Philanthropic institutions (1%)

Basic facts

• 2 days
• 661 registered

participants

• 269 presentations
• 34 posters
• 23 plenary speakers
• 74 concurrent

sessions

L a ndsc a pe Co nse rva tio n Co o pe ra tive s

“The vision of the LCC Network is landscapes capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources for current and future generations.”

lccnetwork.org/about

Autho rs

Tony Hiss Brenda Barrett Brent Mitchell Christina Marts Elle O’Casey NPS Stewardship Institute at

Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Park

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Complexities upon Complexities Ecological Services Cultural Heritage Metropolitan Areas Intercultural Connections Climate Change Managing, Measuring, Media Sustaining Large Landscape Work Next Generation

Ma tte rs o f Sc a le

• Scale is not just geographic, but also

– temporal, – sectoral, – demographic

“E pic Co lla b o ra tio n”

• Cross-cutting
• Diversity

– Gender – Youth – Cultural – Indigenous

• Integration

– Transportation – Energy – Agriculture – Recreation – Economic Dev. – Public Health – Environmental Justice

Midwe st Co nse rva tio n Bio ma ss Allia nc e

Photo: Paul Charland

Ob sta c le s to Co lla b o ra tio n

Systemic

• Organizational

mandates

• Funding/project

cycles

• Competition
• Balancing

regulation with cooperation Cultural / HR

• Beliefs
• Narrow value

propositions

• Workforce
• Skill sets

E pic Sc ie nc e a nd Pla nning

Developing persuasive success stories, and following up with rigorous evaluation, may be one of the greatest task priorities that emerged from the conference.

Skills Re q ue ste d

• Advocacy and political mobilization
• Decision support tools
• Story-telling and web communications
• Social marketing and outreach
• Financing strategies for ecosystem restoration
• Facilitating participatory, collaborative processes
• Maintaining collaborations and momentum
• Climate adaptation
• Evaluation

A Wo rd o n Me e ting Pro c e ss

“You must present, or be absent”

1/3 Exposition 1/3 Expansion 1/3 Exploration

Cultura l Shifts T

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geography hierarchy silos command/control

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alignment/ positive relationships/ engagement/ discovery deviant trust collaboration

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Ce le b ra ting Suc c e sse s

“Landscape-level conservation—the term is still relatively new—is a different way

• f making sense of the world and of

assessing and nurturing its health beyond the laudable, but limited, 20th- century practice of designating reserves and cleaning up pollution.”

— Tony Hiss

T he Wa y F

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Large landscape conservation requires a diverse networked professional community, people from many walks of life connected by common necessity. Such a complex web must be built with great intention. It must be convened by a facilitative structure, informed by science, and supported as a natural solution to issues of human, wildlife, cultural and ecological health.

Co ntinuing the Co nve rsa tio n

Photo: Leon Bojarczuk, Creative Commons

T ha nk yo u!

Senior V.P., Stewardship QLF Atlantic Center for the Environment brentmitchell@qlf.org Partner, NPS Stewardship Institute NPS.gov/StewardshipInstitute Brent_Mitchell@partner.nps.gov