Welcome to the web site for the Lecture Series in Western Landscape Conservation, hosted by the Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences and Policy at Northern Arizona University.

The Series provide a venue for accomplished leaders to interact with advanced students and the public. Its purpose is to foster the development of recommendations for science-based policy innovation to inform conservation at broad spatial and temporal scales.

Anticipating a change in national leadership in early 2009, a group of esteemed scholars and committed student are working together to surface new approaches to public lands stewardship, as the nation struggles with a host of challenges generated by rapid population growth, increasing demand for natural resources, and strained relationships among public and private actors, all in a context of climate change.

Our objective is to generate recommendations for a new federal administration that will enhance the effectiveness of environmental conservation efforts in the West, while addressing challenges that will determine the future of the open spaces, public lands, and natural resources of the nation.

These events, hosted by the M.S. Program in Environmental Sciences and Policy, are co-sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Grand Canyon Trust.