Why Fish Need Trees

Diane Driscoll, NOAA Senior Fisheries Biologist Columbia Basin Branch Office NOAA Fisheries Washington

Endangered Species Act (ESA) Consultations – How to Avoid Jeopardy: Lose the Swagger, Share a Vision

Irma Lagomarsino, NOAA Partnerships, Communications, External Affairs Branch Chief NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region Oregon

Connecting Chickasaw and Choctaw Students to the Ancestral Homelands

Jane Farmer, NPS Park Ranger, Interpretation Natchez Trace Parkway Mississippi

Lessons Learned about Partnerships in Rhyolite, Nevada

Noelle Glines-Bovio, BLM National Conservation Lands / Visual Resource Management State Lead Wyoming State Office Wyoming

Role of Stewardship Contracts in Communities: Successes and Challenges of Project in the Great Burn Proposed Wilderness

Peter Bugoni Independent Consultant Montana

Doctor’s Orders: Get Outside! A National Park Partnership to Promote Community Wellness and Children’s Health in Greater New Orleans

Aleutia Scott, NPS Supervisory Park Ranger Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Oregon

Community Based Partnerships

Aron Flanders, USFWS Fish and Wildlife Biologist/Private Lands Biologist Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program Kansas

Lac Courte Oreilles Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe: Conservation Youth Corps

Debra Proctor, USDA Forest Service Natural Resources Planning Specialist Elizabeth Tichner, USDA Forest Service Natural Resources Specialist Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Great Divide Ranger District Wisconsin

Western Utilities Partnership: A Story of Forest Health, Regulation and Changing Paradigms

Evan Burks, USDA Forest Service Partnership Coordinator Pike & San Isabel National Forests, Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands Colorado

Sustaining Partnerships: A Sustainable Recreation and Restoration Case Study

John Titre, USDA Forest Service Recreation Manager/Social Scientist Coronado National Forest, Nogales District Arizona

Large Landscape and Urban Conservation Initiatives: Ecological Places in Cities (EPIC)

Kristin Shaw, USFWS EPIC Urban Conservation TAG Coordinator Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers LCC Indiana

Hands on the Land Story: Exploring Learning Landscapes through America’s Largest Outdoor Classrooms

Maria Parisi, USFWS Youth Program Analyst National Conservation Training Center Division of Education and Outreach West Virginia