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The 2013-14 State of the Rockies Speakers Series:
Large
Landscape
Conservation
in
the
Rockies:
Exploring
New
Conservation
Paradigms
for
the
21st
Century
As part of the Rockies Project's 2013-14 focus on Large Landscape Conservation, the Project will once again be holding a speakers series on the Colorado College campus throughout the academic year. Our lineup of experts in the conservation field come from diverse backgrounds and professions, and will help to bring a breadth of knowledge to the Project's research and outreach. The events below currently outline our schedule for the Fall of 2013. Please stay tuned for additional speakers to be scheduled for the Spring of 2014 and details regarding our annual State of the Rockies Conference.
Monday, October 7th, 2013 at 7:00pm in Gates Common Room, Palmer Hall, Colorado College
The Emergence of Large Landscape Conservation in an Era of Planetary Thresholds
Dr. Gary Tabor, Director of the Center for Large Landscape Conservation
Dr.
Gary
Tabor,
BSC
Cornell,
VMD
U
Penn,
MES
Yale,
is
a
conservation
catalyst.
He
has
championed
large
landscape
conservation
efforts
throughout
the
world,
notably
the
Yellowstone
to
Yukon
Conservation
Initiative
(Y2Y).
His
efforts
have
increased
the
conservation
capacity
of
the
Wildlife
Conservation
Society,
the
African
Wildlife
Foundation,
the
Wildlife
Trust
and
numerous
other
conservation
organizations.
More
recently,
Gary
established
and
directed
the
Wilburforce
Foundation's
Yellowstone
to
Yukon
field
office
in
Montana
and
in
1999
designed
one
of
the
first
conservation
science
grant
making
programs
in
western
North
America.
His
conservation
background
includes
eight
years
of
international
conservation
work
in
East
Africa
and
South
America.
Trained
as
a
wildlife
veterinarian
and
an
ecologist,
Gary
also
co-founded
the
Consortium
for
Conservation
Medicine,
an
ecological
health
collaborative
linking
ecology,
epidemiology,
human
and
veterinary
medicine,
and
public
health.
During
his
career,
Gary
has
served
as
an
adviser
to
six
major
private
foundations
and
several
bilateral
and
multilateral
donor
agencies
in
the
area
of
biodiversity
and
wildland
philanthropy.
Gary
recently
completed
his
6
year
term
on
the
Board
of
Governors
of
the
Society
for
Conservation
Biology.
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Monday, November 11th, 2013 at 7:00pm in Gates Common Room, Palmer Hall, Colorado College
Large Landscape Initiatives and the Future of American Land Conservation
James N. Levitt, Director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University, and a Fellow in the Department of Planning and Urban Form at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Jim
Levitt
is
the
director
of
the
Program
on
Conservation
Innovation
at
the
Harvard
Forest,
Harvard
University,
based
in
Petersham,
Massachusetts,
USA,
and
a
Fellow
in
the
Department
of
Planning
and
Urban
Form
at
the
Lincoln
Institute
of
Land
Policy,
based
in
Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
In
addition,
he
has
ongoing
fellowships
at
the
Harvard
Kennedy
School
and
at
Highstead,
an
NGO
advancing
land
conservation
in
New
England.
Levitt focuses on landmark innovations in the field of land and biodiversity conservation, both present-day and historic, that are characterized by five traits: novelty and creativity in conception, strategic significance, measurable effectiveness, international transferability, and the ability to endure. Such innovations include: the establishment of the first public open space in the English-speaking world in Boston in 1634; the creation of the world's first state and national parks at Yosemite and Yellowstone in 1864 and 1872; the invention of the world's first land trust in Massachusetts in 1891; and the ongoing emergence of landscape-scale conservation initiatives around the globe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In each of these landmark innovations, key factors for success include: the engagement of highly talented social entrepreneurs; the leveraging of some of the most advanced technologies of the day; and the use of inventive financial and organizational tools.
Jim Levitt has written and edited dozens of articles and three books on land and biodiversity conservation. He has lectured widely on the topic in venues ranging from Santiago, Chile to Beijing, China, and Montreal, Canada. Among his current efforts, Levitt is advising colleagues in Chile on the expansion of private land conservation initiatives and enabling legal frameworks in that nation. He is also engaged in an effort to link land conservation innovators at universities, colleges and independent research institutions around the globe.
Levitt is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM). He was recently named a Donaldson Fellow by Yale SOM for career achievements that "exemplify the mission of the School". Jim and his wife Jane have three children and live in Belmont, Massachusetts. The family loves to spend part of every summer on their forested land in Maine, most of which is permanently protected with a conservation easement.
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Monday, December 9th, 2013 at 7:00pm in Gates Common Room, Palmer Hall, Colorado College
Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet
Todd Wilkinson, Environmental Journalist, Author
Mikhail
Gorbachev
says
that
no
private
citizen
in
the
history
of
the
world
has
amassed
a
broader
resume
as
a
pathfinding
"eco-capitalist-humanitarian"
than
Ted
Turner.
Yes,
that
Ted
Turner,
the
subject
of
Todd
Wilkinson's
new
provocative
book
about
the
media
mogul-turned-"bison
baron"
and
21st
century
green
crusader
that
is
now
winning
critical
acclaim.
"Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet" spans the enigmatic arc of Turner's other and heretofore largely undocumented life, stretching from Turner's two million acres of private property, most of it in the West, where he's amassed a herd of 55,000 bison and manages his properties as "arks" for imperiled species, to his unabashed support of the UN (with a historic $1 billion gift) and founding of the Nuclear Threat initiative with Sam Nunn to eradicate nuclear weapons and prevent material from falling into the hands of terrorists.
Last Stand, praised by Tom Brokaw, E.O. Wilson, David Quammen and Terry Tempest Williams, also delves into deeply personal aspects of Turner's life that speak to his bold motivation as a plutocrat to give back to society-his troubled relationship with his father and his 10-year marriage to Jane Fonda. It goes into aspects of relationships that Turner has not been shared in other books.
Foremost, Ted dismisses the premise that economic prosperity must necessarily come at the expense of the environment. He is considered a model in showing how the triple bottom line really works.
Wilkinson, who today makes his home in Bozeman, Montana, has been an environmental journalist for nearly 30 years. His work is well known to Westerners.
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Monday, February 24th, 2014 at 7:00pm in Gates Common Room, Palmer Hall, Colorado College
Spine of the Continent
Mary Ellen Hannibal, Author
As
climate
change
encroaches,
animals
and
plants
around
the
globe
are
having
their
habitats
pulled
out
from
under
them.
At
the
same
time,
human
development
has
made
islands
out
of
even
our
largest
nature
reserves,
stranding
the
biodiversity
that
lives
within
them.
The
Spine
of
the
Continent
introduces
readers
to
the
most
ambitious
conservation
effort
ever
undertaken:
to
create
linked
protected
areas
extending
from
the
Yukon
to
Mexico,
the
entire
length
of
North
America.
This
movement
is
the
brainchild
of
Michael
Soule,
the
founder
of
conservation
biology
and
the
peer
of
E.O.
Wilson
and
Paul
Ehrlich,
who
endorse
his
effort
as
necessary
to
saving
nature
on
our
continent.
With
blue-ribbon
scientific
foundations,
the
Spine
is
yet
a
grassroots,
cooperative
effort
among
conservation
activists
-
NGOs
large
and
small
--
and
regular
citizens.
The
Spine
of
the
Continent
is
not
only
about
making
physical
connections
so
that
nature
will
persist;
it
is
about
making
connections
between
people
and
the
land
we
call
home.
In
this
fascinating,
exciting,
and
important
book,
Mary
Ellen
Hannibal
travels
the
length
of
the
Spine,
sharing
stories
and
anecdotes
about
the
passionate,
idiosyncratic
people
she
meets
along
the
way
-
and
the
critters
they
love.
Mary Ellen Hannibal has written for many publications and environmental non-profits. Hannibal's other books include Evidence of Evolution, Leaves & Pods, and Good Parenting Through Your Divorce. A former book review and travel editor, Hannibal is Chair of the California Book Awards. She was a 2011 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow. She is a recipient of the National Society of Science Writer's Science and Society Award 2012 and Stanford University's Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 at 7:00pm in Celeste South Theater, Cornerstone Arts Building, Colorado College
Large
Landscape
Conservation
in
the
Rockies:
Exploring
New
Conservation
Paradigms
for
the
21st
Century
A session of the first annual Colorado College Innovation Showcase
Release of the 2014 State of the Rockies Report Card, Premiere of the Rockies Project production Spine of the Continent, and Keynote Talk by Michael Soulé, Conservation Biologist
Please stay tuned to the State of the Rockies' website to learn more about our final event of the year, and Colorado College's Innovation Showcase.