Designing Nature’s Half:
The Landscape Conservation Podcast
Biweekly discussions featuring interviews with experts in the field of landscape conservation and design.
🎙️Assessing Landscape Conditions: A Key Aspect of Landscape Conservation Design, with Pat Comer
Pat Comer, Chief Ecologist (retired) with NatureServe, shares insights on landscape assessments, a key component of landscape conservation design (LCD). The discussion provides practical advice for stakeholders interested in LCD—highlighting landscape assessments as a crucial component in the design process. Tune into this enlightening conversation packed with expert insights perfect for anyone passionate about sustaining nature through thoughtful planning, design, and collective action!
🎙️The Conundrum of Wildland Fire: Balancing Ecological Benefits and Community Safety, with Steve Markason
Steve Markason, Founder/Principle at Teton Wildfire Mitigation Team, LLC, discusses the increasing extent and severity of wildland fires and the need to build resilient landscapes that increasingly includes communities.
🎙️Exploring Climate Adaptation with Doug Parsons, Host of America Adapts Podcast
Doug Parsons, Director of America Adapts Media, and Host of America Adapts: The Climate Change Podcast shares climate change adaptation insights obtained over the course of his career with multiple Federal and state agencies and, more currently, as a podcast host.
🎙️Exploring the Climate Crisis and Adaptation on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska and the Pacific, with Robin West
Robin West, Regional Chief (retired) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System, shares climate change-related insights obtained over the course of his 35-year career in Alaska and across Hawaii and the remote Pacific Islands.