The recently released 2011 "State of the Birds" report by the Connecticut Audubon Society featured an article by David Foster and Clarisse Hart on the Wildlands and Woodlands initiative in New England. The full article is now available.
On March 1, Jim Levitt, Director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at Harvard Forest, convened the 10th annual Conservation Leadership Dialogue at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The event took place on the 100th anniversary—to the day—of the passage of the 1911 Weeks Act, which is legislation responsible for some of the more important instances of ecological
The Trustees of Reservations, one of the nation's oldest land conservation organizations awarded the award to David Foster at their annual meeting on September 25. The award, named for the landscape architect and founder of the Trustees, was presented by Vice President Wes Ward for "David's 25 years of visionary commitment to conservation and his inspiration to the
The successful release of the Wildlands and Woodlands vision for New England culminated in a standing-room only crowd at the project's regional conference in Concord, NH, on June 4. The host of the event, the New England Forestry Foundation, registered 275 attendees—landowners, scientists, forest industry professionals, conservation organizations, land trusts, philanthropists, media representatives, and policymakers. The attendees came
A new conservation vision released May 19 by the Harvard Forest reports that, following almost 200 years of natural reforestation, forest cover is declining in all six New England states. The 20 authors of the Wildlands and Woodlands report—including 8 scientists from the Harvard Forest—call for conserving 70 percent of New England as forestland over the next 50 years, a
New England Forestry Foundation is hosting an all-day regional conference featuring the Harvard Forest report, Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the New England Landscape. Registration will be available via their website in March.
Date: Jun 04, 2010 Time: 9:30AM to 4:30PM Location: Grappone Conference Center - Marriott Courtyard 70 Constitution Avenue Concord, NH 03301
Led by Jim Levitt, the Director of the Program on Conservation Innovation, and with assistance from David Foster, the Harvard Forest is currently coordinating the work of the newly established Massachusetts Initiative on Financing Forest Conservation (FFC). Jim and FFC staff have recently convened an Advisory Board composed of leading conservationists from the public, private, non-profit and academic sectors in
The April 19, 2009 New York Times article "The Working Forest" features David Foster, Director and his on-going effort to promote forest conservation in a responsible, scientific and historical context. This vision has been adopted and furthered by other scientists, conservation and environmental organizations and this partnership is working together to move this vision to the all of
David Foster, Director of Harvard Forest and Bill Labich, Regional Conservationist of Highstead lay out the arguments and successes of creating a working model to think globally while acting locally. For New England and most of the eastern United States, there is a direct link between effective forest protection and management and the global environment. As a consequence of sub-continental