Rebecca Conard, George Wright SocietyDavid Harmon, George Wright Society Jonathan B. Jarvis, Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity On behalf of the University of California Berkeley’s Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity (IPPB) and...
Rolf Diamant You might say I inherited this column from Bill Brown of Gustavus, Alaska. Bill, the author of Islands of Hope: Parks and Recreation in Environmental Crisis, was one of the most brilliant and idiosyncratic figures in National Park...
Caryl Hart and Nina S. Roberts On August 2, 2019, a cliff collapsed at Leucadia State Beach, near Encinitas in southern California. Three women were killed while enjoying a beautiful summer day. The evening before, those walking in the area noticed...
Jonathan B. Jarvis This inaugural issue of Parks Stewardship Forum comes at a critical time for our planet. There are solutions out there to slow human-caused warming of the planet and to prepare for the changes that will be inevitable but also...
Moses Chun In the short time I’ve been a professional in conservation, collaborative skills and their place in modern land management have risen as a prominent need in the work we do. Despite the organizational structures and institutional cultures...
Kelly J. Iknayan, Steven R. Beissinger ABSTRACT Climate change has caused deserts, already defined by climatic extremes, to warm and dry more rapidly than other ecoregions in the contiguous United States over the last 50 years. Desert birds persist...
Michael Chang, Haley Kennard, Laura Nelson; with contributors: Katie Wrubel, Seraphina Gagnon, Rebekah Monette, Janine Ledford [Ed. note: This article originated as a presentation at the US/ICOMOS (US Committee of the International Council on...
Gustavo Requena, Christina Garcia, Marvin Vasquez Abstract Indigenous communities have always coexisted with nature. Their subsistence has had a dependence on the heightened stewardship of the natural environment, requiring that their farming...
Christopher E. Johnson, Vida Germano Abstract Cultural landscapes are complex systems of natural and cultural resources that are affected by changes in climatic and non-climatic factors. The National Park Service, Pacific West Region, has developed...
Marcia Fajardo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Abstract Agroforestry is the result of a dialectical relationship between humans and the environment, capable of increasing agricultural biodiversity. In the Brazilian Amazon region, Agroforestry Indigenous...