The Great Movement
Date
2014-09
Authors
Allison, Lesli, speaker
Allison, Lesli, moderator
Taggart, Craig, moderator
Danvir, Rick, moderator
International Wildlife Ranching Symposium, producer
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Abstract
Major transformations in land ownership and management have been underway in the Western United States for several decades with enormous implications for wildlife, conservation and working lands. The Western Landowners Alliance, representing the experience and voice of conservation-oriented landowners and managers, has emerged to address both the resulting opportunities and challenges at a west-wide scale. Deeply embedded in their communities, landowners constitute a major social, economic and political influence. They also manage the West's most biologically diverse lands. Working together through organizations like the Western Landowners Alliance, the Chama Peak Land Alliance, the Malpai Borderlands, the Quivira Coalition and the Blackfoot Challenge, among others, landowners are collectively generating a 'culture of conservation'. The era of entrenched warfare between environmental and agricultural organizations is winding to a close, replaced by the rise of what Arizona rancher and Malpai Borderlands founder, Bill McDonald, coined the 'radical center'. This shift represents a significant advance and new opportunities for wildlife conservation but requires new awareness, thinking and communication strategies on the part of environmental organizations, the scientific community, policy makers and funders.
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Moderators: Lesli Allison, Craig Taggart and Rick Danvir.
Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held September 7-12, 2014, YMCA Center of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado.
To request a transcript, please contact library_digitaladmin@mail.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-1844.
Presented at the 8th international congress for wildlife and livelihoods on private and communal lands: livestock, tourism, and spirit, that was held September 7-12, 2014, YMCA Center of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado.
To request a transcript, please contact library_digitaladmin@mail.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-1844.
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Wildlife management -- Congresses
Range management -- Congresses