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This special one-day event featured the release of the

Washington Biodiversity Conservation Strategy:

Sustaining our Natural Heritage for Future Generations

After three years of work, the Washington Biodiversity Council has delivered the Washington Biodiversity Conservation Strategy: Sustaining Our Natural Heritage For Future Generations (5 MB pdf).

To view the table of contents and download sections of the strategy,
click here

The Executive Summary (1.2 MB pdf) of the strategy is also available. To request a hard copy of the strategy or the executive summary, please
contact us.

The strategy was released at the conference held Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle. Please take a look at the conference program.

Agenda

Partnerships and Hope: Biodiversity Conservation in the 21st Century

Deborah Jensen
CEO, Woodland Park Zoo


Introduction to the Biodiversity Conservation Strategy

Maggie Coon and Wade Troutman, Washington Biodiversity Council
Overview of the Biodiversity Conservation Strategy (1.4 MB pdf)

Why a Strategic Approach to Conservation?
Panelists addressed how the biodiversity strategy links to the work of their organizations.

• John Ladenburg, Pierce County Executive
• Court Stanley, President, Port Blakely Tree Farms
• David Weekes, Washington State Director, The Nature Conservancy

• Communicating Biodiversity to the Public
  • Getting a Buzz Going About Biodiversity—Lessons from the Healthy Lands Initiative (4.1 MB pdf), Nancy Warner
• Improving Incentive Programs for Landowners
  • ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia
    (64 KB pdf), Mark Bowman
  • Small Landowners and Ecosystem Services
    (475 KB pdf)
  • The Jefferson County Landworks Collaborative
    (614 KB pdf), Denise Pranger
• Fulfilling the Promise of Mitigation
  • Birch Bay Watershed Planning
    (1.7 MB pdf), Ken Yocom
• Building a Citizen Science Network
  • Engaging Citizen Scientists with Bioblitzes
    (1.1 MB pdf), Karen Dvornich and Michelle Tirhi
  • Puget Sound Seabird Survey: How to Make Citizen Science Work (1.5 MB pdf), Adam Sedgley

• Enhancing Nature-Based Learning
  • Biodiversity of the Waterville Plateau: Horny Toads and Beyond (1.5 MB pdf), Diane Peterson, Justin Grillo, and students
• Advancing Conservation Markets
  • Overview (64 KB pdf), Dennis Canty
  • Building an Ecosystem Marketplace in Oregon
    (3.0 MB pdf) Sara Vickerman
• Integrating Conservation into Local Planning
  • Pierce County Biodiversity Planning
    (1.7 MB pdf), Katherine Brooks
  • Biodiversity Assessment and Planning in King County
    (162 KB pdf), Jennifer Vanderhoof, Bob Fuerstenberg, Randy Shuman
• Conservation from a Landscape Perspective
  • Overview (523 KB pdf), Sarah Brace
  • Transportation and Biodiversity: Is There an Intersection Ahead? (5.8 MB pdf), Kelly McAllister, Paul Wagner

• Biodiversity and Climate Change
  • Rodger Schlickeisen, Defenders of Wildlife
    
    
• The Ecology of Hope: Building a Movement to Reconnect Children and Nature
  • Cheryl Charles, president of the Children and Nature Network
    
    
• Of Wintergreen and Waterbears: Intimacy as the Antidote to the Extinction of Experience
  • Robert Michael Pyle, naturalist and award-winning author

Closing
Maggie Coon and representatives from the next generation offered closing thoughts.