Additional Landscape Conservation News
The Outdoor Industry Association's newly released third edition of its Outdoor Recreation Economy Report documents $887 billion in annual consumer spending on outdoor recreation, which supports 7.6 million direct outdoor recreation jobs
The Nature Conservancy's Beyond the Source report analyzes 4,000 cities to demonstrate the health, climate and biodiversity benefits of source water protection
Envision the Susquehanna: A Vision for the Susquehanna Watershed, released by the Chesapeake Conservancy and many partners, presents a shared vision for the river and its watershed, capturing locally supported conservation priorities and recommendations that emerged through a multi-year community engagement and data analysis effort
"Ecosystem Earth," a Special Issue of Science, examines the human impacts on the integrated ecosystem that is Earth, seeks to understand barriers to change, and explores potential solutions
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy releases new publication,
Minnesota's Road to a Legacy Amendment, as a case study in using a state constitutional amendment to generate conservation funding at the state level
Highstead funds launch of Regional Conservation Partnerships Exchange Program in New England
Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. announces 11 community grants featuring collaborations of more than 50 organizations to advance quality of life in communities across North America
Conservation Corridor collates recent research that looks at the effectiveness of urban habitat connectivity and provides new methods for planning and implementing connectivity corridors
Article highlights the importance of maintaining connectivity between habitats as a key strategy for conserving wildlife populations in face of changing climate
Coordinators of State Wildlife Action Plans (updated last year) from across the Northeast are exploring opportunities to collaborate strategically across jurisdictions
New report from the Conservation Finance Network employs a market development framework to understand the private capital investments and markets for working lands conservation
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Recent meta-analysis suggests that fences are most effective mitigation strategy for reducing wildlife roadkill
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