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Last month, federal partners announced the designation of two new landscapes—the East Mississippi and Pikes Peak—as Sentinel Landscapes, bringing the total number of Sentinel Landscapes to twenty-one.
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Also in June, the Sentinel Landscapes Partnership released its 2025 Accomplishments Report, highlighting how the program has continued to grow and expand to safeguard military installations from encroachment, strengthen resource-sharing across partners, and advance landscape-scale conservation on working and natural lands.
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New report from 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People outlines a policy vision for how national and sub-national governments can create the enabling conditions needed for integrated landscape management to thrive.
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In a powerful new contribution to Ground Shift’s on-going essay series, Amanda John Kimsey argues that the conservation movement has a relevancy and class problem—one that can only be addressed by connecting nature loss to kitchen table issues like insurance costs, grocery prices, and flood risk, and by genuinely sharing power with the frontline communities who are both most harmed by nature loss and most motivated to fight for change.
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Elsewhere, in a separate contribution to Ground Shift's on-going essay series, Tim Purington outlines five strategies that land management agencies can adopt to accelerate and scale ecological restoration on public lands.
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As a supplement to its essay series, Ground Shift launches The Forum, a new space where people can contribute quick-hit ideas, perspectives, and creative work to help shape the future of America's public lands and waters in 2050.
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Article in the latest edition of Trust, the quarterly magazine of The Pew Charitable Trusts, highlights how states are increasingly considering how to build disaster resilience through green infrastructure solutions—while a related post examines how Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Rhode Island are working to develop adaptive management and long-term climate resilience investment frameworks.
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The Mi'kmaq Nation has acquired nearly 3,400 acres of forest, wetland, and stream habitat in Aroostook County, Maine, more than doubling the Tribe's territory and access to ancestral lands for hunting, fishing, and the transmission of traditional knowledge to future generations—the sixth completed project of the Tributary Land Returns initiative, a collaboration between the five federally recognized Wabanaki Tribes and seven non-native organizations working to return tens of thousands of acres to Wabanaki communities.
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Zero Consultation: Reporting underscores that two coalitions of Native American tribes were not consulted before the downsizing of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments—reductions that also terminated the Bears Ears Commission, dismantling years of collaborative co-management between the federal government and five Tribal Nations.
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Spotlighting the power of collaboration, relationships, and trust, a post from LegacyWorks Group reflects on the Snake River Headwaters Symposium in Jackson, Wyoming, and how farmers, Tribal leaders, scientists, and agency staff from across the watershed came together in search of a foundation of collective resilience for when crisis arrives and the water runs low.
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Article from Offrange profiles Montana ranchers and farmers who are adopting a new ethic of watershed stewardship—repairing riparian areas, converting irrigation to more sustainable systems, and working with conservation partners to keep water in streams—and finding that caring for the creek pays off both ecologically and economically in a state where water and agriculture are inseparable.
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The Salazar Center for North American Conservation releases a report on its 2025 Peregrine Accelerator cohort in the North Atlantic Transboundary Landscape, showcasing eight project teams whose work on forest connectivity, Indigenous land stewardship, coastal governance, and aquatic restoration reflects what is possible when conservation leaders are given dedicated time, seed funding, and deep peer support to move ambitious ideas into action.
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New report from the U.S. Forest Service examines the role of watershed restoration in post-wildfire recovery, highlighting how strategic investments in soil, stream, and vegetation health reduce erosion, protect water quality, and build long-term landscape resilience in fire-affected forests.
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Regional landscape conservation planning: New book, edited by Reed Noss and Tom Hocker, uses 40 years of experience in Florida to explore the background, history, and application of landscape connectivity principles to conservation.
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Story from Reimagining the Civic Commons spotlights the growing research on joy as a driver of human health and social connection, making the case that designing public spaces to create conditions for genuine joy is one of the most powerful tools available for building equitable, resilient communities.
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Reflection piece from the Northern Forest Center considers ecological forestry in practice, examining the hands-on, often counterintuitive work of active forest stewardship needed to restore health, structural complexity, and long-term resilience to forests that have been shaped by decades of management, disturbance, and industrial use.
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Writing in From the Ground Up, Bob Perschel suggests a guiding question for considering forest management in New England: How do we embed a system of ecological reserves in a landscape-scale matrix of forests managed for timber and ecological values to achieve an optimum mix of species richness and abundance?
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America’s Public Lands at a Crossroads: The Wallace Stegner Center’s 31st Annual Symposium, hosted in March on the University of Utah campus, brought together legal scholars, policymakers, and land managers to examine the legal and political challenges facing federal public lands and to explore pathways for durable, science-based stewardship—presentations can now be viewed online.
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