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The field guide profiles 86 conservation projects. Every state and country program chose one project to feature. A handful of “wild cards”—other timely, far-reaching projects—were selected by regional directors. All are portfolio sites, meaning they were identified during ecoregional planning, or likely will be included in a portfolio once planning is completed.
All of the featured projects are landscapes, and sometimes seascapes— large areas of land and water that can encompass public lands like national parks and forests, marine protected areas, tribal and |
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Canoeing the Roanoke River, North Carolina.
© Elizabeth Zeschin |
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indigenous lands, towns and communities, and a varied mixture of private lands, including our own preserves. They embrace watersheds, coastlines, rivers, islands, lakes, volcanoes, mountains, grasslands and coral reefs. Many of them are blessed with true wilderness, but all are working landscapes of farms, ranches, commercial fisheries, dammed rivers and timber production. They are not pristine, but they do offer the promise of functioning over time as healthy, natural ecosystems that support native species.
Project profiles are basic and brief—and by no means comprehensive. They are broad-brush illustrations of places, their histories, ecological challenges and conservation action. The lists of partners and other categories are often, of necessity, abbreviated. Many of our projects are fortunate enough to have dozens of partners involved, but they could not all be listed in this format. |
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Instructions
Select the desired region by clicking a specific area on the map below. If you prefer you can view a list of the project profiles in alphabetical order or categorized by the region/sub region.
Note: Simply click your browser back button to return to the regional overview map in order to select a different region and its corresponding project profiles. |
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