Michael Whitfield Receives
Conservation Leadership Award

Michael Whitfield, NRCC Research Associate, was honored this month at the Land Trust Alliance Rally in Pittsburgh with the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award & Fellowship. The Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award is the Land Trust Alliance’s signature award, given annually to honor outstanding leadership, innovation and creativity in land conservation. “At a time when many land trusts in the West were really asking the question, ‘Should we be working on community-based conservation or should we be focused on landscape-level conservation,’ Michael was one of the first people answering that question with, ‘Both. We should be doing both things,’” said Wendy Ninteman, the Land Trust Alliance’s Western director. “That passion and that commitment and that integrity are really contagious.”

NRCC Hosts Yale Students in Jackson

 
NRCC was pleased to host Susan Clark’s students from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies on their field trip to Jackson Hole and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem this month. They explored the Wilderness Study Area designations currently proposed for Jackson Hole , especially the social and decision-making process. NRCC has hosted similar field trips over the years, across a wide array of subjects and cases. As part of a course on the Foundations of Natural Resources Management and Policy, students experience an invaluable opportunity to use and develop their growing analytic skills in a real-world case, meeting diverse interesting people, and engaging in a complex social dynamic.

Teton Plants Program Talk

NRCC Program Director Raylene McCalman presented “Other Ways of Knowing: Native Plants and Landscape through the Lens of Ethnobotany and Traditional Ecological Knowledge” for Teton Plants Program, the local chapter of the Wyoming Native Plant Society. Raylene, an anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose work has focused on traditional uses of plants and their place in traditional cultural landscapes, has engaged in fieldwork throughout the Rocky Mountain West and beyond, capturing the stories and traditions of people and places along the way. Click here for more information about the Teton Chapter and scheduled plant walks, hikes and lecture in the Tetons.

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