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AUTHORS: Moderator: Steve Jester, Executive Director, Partners for Conservation; Panelists: Reese Thompson, Georgia Longleaf pine forest land owner; Bill Sproul, Kansas Rancher; Victoria Lockhart, Resource Management Service, LLC
ABSTRACT: Landowners choose to engage, or not engage, with public agency-led and nongovernmental organization-led conservation efforts for many reasons that vary both in time and across a landscape. The panel will feature stories from several geographies including western Montana, Midwest and Southeast highlighting the importance of the human aspects of conservation partnerships such as trust, mutual respect, shared vision and open communication. Discussions will include the stewardship ethic along with economic and societal considerations, such as family and community, as they impact landowners decisions on land use and participation in individual and landscape-level conservation efforts. Opportunities and challenges to the development and sustainability of effective public-private partnerships at the scale of the landscape will also be discussed.
Monday October 30, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Breathitt