Successful landscape conservation depends upon the ability to work across multiple organizations and land ownerships to manage for shared conservation values. Private landowners are a key class of ownerships. Working farms, ranches, and forests are often the last best places for intact, fertile, habitable open land. They can provide interconnected permeable landscapes where nature and local communities thrive.

They are the cornerstones of both human communities and the ecosystems we all depend on – and in some regions, they are disappearing. Too often, landowner contributions to conservation at landscape scales are overlooked, while some collaborative’s struggle with how to better engage private landowners. Lastly, with the ever-changing economic, sociopolitical, and environmental pressures, innovations in public policy are needed to bridge gaps and embrace private landowner participation. 

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Speakers: 

• Keynote: Lesli Allison, ED of Landowners Alliance 
• Moderator: Lynn Scarlett – Chief External Affairs Officer, TNC 
• P1 – Sara Parker Pauley – Dir. Missouri Dept of Conservation, AFWA President 
• P2 – Jimmy Bullock – Resource Management Service LLC 
• P3 – Adam Kiel- Iowa Soybean Association 
• P4 – Jim Lyons – Yale School of the Environment, past Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment 

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