Key Theme: Connectivity

Webinar: Working Lands and Large Landscape Conservation

In this second session of our two-part series on large landscape conservation, we discussed strategies being used by private landowners to advance conservation at scale and explore the role of private land conservation and working lands in large land conservation efforts. To learn more about the large landscape conservation movement in North America in general, check out the first webinar, Land Conservation at Scale.

This webinar featured private lands conservation experts Rye Austin, Lesli Allison, and Erik Glenn.

Rye Austin

Executive Director, Malone Family Land Preservation Foundation

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Lesli Allison

Executive Director, Western Landowners Alliance

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Erik Glenn

Executive Director, Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CCALT)

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Dates

Date Start Time End Time
June 18, 2020 12:00 pm 1:00 pm

Contact Information

Dominique Gómez: dominique.gomez@colostate.edu

Key Themes

  • Connectivity
  • Crossing boundaries
  • Healthy landscapes
  • Large landscapes

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Photo by Xavier Fane, courtesy of the Trust for Public Land

Webinar: Land Conservation at Scale

“How much nature do we need?” is a question the Salazar Center is working to bring to the forefront of the conservation conversation, and we’re interested in emerging ideas on this topic such as the 30×30 goal, Half Earth, and Nature Needs Half. The large landscape conservation movement in North America is foundational to this goal of preventing and reversing the loss of our continent’s natural places, so in this installment of our Connecting for Conservation series, Dr. Rebecca Shaw and Heath Nero provided background about the groups working to preserve these landscapes and how they’re doing it, and the scientific basis for the movement.

Photo by Xavier Fane, xavierfane.com; courtesy of The Trust for Public Land.

Dr. Rebecca Shaw

Chief Scientist, World Wildlife Fund

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Heath Nero

Conservation Program Officer, The Wyss Foundation

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Dates

Date Start Time End Time
June 3, 2020 12:00 pm 1:00 pm

Contact Information

Dominique Gómez: dominique.gomez@colostate.edu

Key Themes

  • Connectivity
  • Healthy landscapes
  • Large landscapes

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Webinar: Building Community Trust

Building trust is critical to successful conservation programs. Understanding the communities you are working in, their beliefs and histories, is critical to establishing a solid foundation, along with careful thinking on your approach to engagement. In this Connecting for Conservation session, two expert practitioners discussed their work and shared best practices.

Photo courtesy of Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, originally appearing on Yale Environment 360.

Robert Bonnie

Executive in Residence, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University

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Dr. Stephanie Malin

Associate Professor, Sociology, Colorado State University

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Dates

Date Start Time End Time
May 14, 2020 12:00 pm 1:00 pm

Contact Information

Dominique Gómez: dominique.gomez@colostate.edu

Key Themes

  • Community-based conservation
  • Connectivity
  • Crossing boundaries
  • Diversity equity inclusion
  • Healthy landscapes
  • Indigenous conservation

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Webinar: Cross-border Conservation with Secretary Salazar

This was a special Earth Day edition of the Salazar Center’s Connecting for Conservation webinar series, featuring former Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar! Secretary Salazar was joined by Professor Stephen Mumme of Colorado State University in a discussion of cross-border conservation in North America. They explored successes, challenges, and opportunities for the future through examples such as Big Bend National Park, the Crown of the Continent, and the Colorado River Delta.

Secretary Ken Salazar

Founder, Salazar Center for North American Conservation, and Former US Secretary of the Interior, Colorado Attorney General, and US Senator

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Dr. Stephen Mumme

Professor, Political Science, Colorado State University

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Dates

Date Start Time End Time
April 22, 2020 12:00 pm 1:00 pm

Contact Information

Dominique Gómez: dominique.gomez@colostate.edu

Key Themes

  • Connectivity
  • Conservation policy
  • Crossing boundaries
  • Healthy landscapes
  • Large landscapes

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Webinar: Conservation Storytelling

In this installment of the Connecting for Conservation webinar series, our goal was to share some much-needed warmth and levity – and useful information, too! – in light of the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. We explored the power of stories to win support for conservation projects and how narratives can be framed in ways that capture the attention of the public.

The webinar featured storytellers Valerie Tutson and Luke Runyon.

Valerie Tutson

Professional Storyteller and Founding Director, Rhode Island Black Storytellers

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Luke Runyon


Colorado River Basin Reporter, KUNC

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Dates

Date Start Time End Time
April 16, 2020 12:00 pm 1:00 pm

Contact Information

Dominique Gómez: dominique.gomez@colostate.edu

Key Themes

  • Community-based conservation
  • Connectivity
  • Conservation funding and finance
  • Diversity equity inclusion
  • Resiliency

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2020 Virtual Symposium on Conservation Impact

The Center’s 2020 International Symposium on Conservation Impact highlighted best-in-class examples in North American cities of enhancing natural systems to improve community health and support climate resilience. The symposium featured a broad group of policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers who work in and around cities.

You can view the complete agenda, as well as variety of recordings from the virtual event:

Connectivity Challenge Prize Finalist Pitch Event

Watch Borderlands Restoration Network win the prize, and read more about their winning project.

Working and Communicating Effectively in Rural Communities Workshop
Symposium on Conservation Impact
Watch the symposium playlist on YouTube
This playlist includes videos of each speaker and panel, plus special announcements from throughout the day.

Recordings from the symposium include:

Thank you to our sponsors and partners!

The symposium was made possible with support from our sponsors, Jim Kelley and Amie Knox; Trinchera Blanca Foundation, an affiliate of The Moore Charitable Foundation, founded by Louis Bacon; Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO); Dig Studio; and Colorado Parks and Wildlife,  as well as a number of generous individual donors.

We would also like to thank our partners, who helped us craft a meaningful and substantive symposium. They include The Trust for Public Land, the National Wildlife Federation, the City and County of Denver, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Wilburforce Foundation.

      The Trust for Public Land     National Wildlife Federation    Denver Parks and Recreation   Wilburforce Foundation      William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Contact Information

Catie Boehmer: catie.boehmer@colostate.edu

Sponsored by Trinchera Blanca Foundation, Great Outdoors Colorado, Dig Studio, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Key Themes

  • Climate adaptation
  • Climate change
  • Connectivity
  • Diversity equity inclusion
  • Healthy landscapes
  • Resiliency
  • Urban nature

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Past Symposia

2019 Symposium on Conservation Impact

The inaugural Salazar Center International Symposium on Conservation Impact established a forum to track, incent, recognize, and reward progress on conservation challenges across North America. It convened 200+ thought leaders from the arenas of conservation policy, practice, and research around the theme of landscape connectivity. Attendees represented 10 different city, county, state, and national agencies; 40 non-profit organizations and universities; and 19 funders from 15 states, Canada, and Mexico. Together, we explored opportunities to connect and collaborate across urban and rural, public and private, and wild and working lands; how landscape-scale conservation is critical to environmental and human health; and what opportunities and challenges exist surrounding their conservation and stewardship.

The Center also launched its first competitive prize for conservation impact at the symposium. The prize is one way in which the Salazar Center is pursuing bold new incentives to advance impactful, community-based conservation partnerships that support conservation at scale.

Speakers included:

Dates

Date Start Time End Time
Sep. 24, 2019 8:00 am 6:00 pm

Location

McNichols Civic Center Building

144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80202

Key Themes

  • Biodiversity
  • Climate change
  • Connectivity
  • Conservation funding and finance
  • Conservation policy
  • Crossing boundaries
  • Diversity equity inclusion
  • Healthy landscapes
  • Indigenous conservation
  • Large landscapes

Watch highlights from the symposium

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Past Symposia