Jonathan Peterson
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Boiling Springs,
PA
Biographical Sketch: Jon is an environmental planner with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. In his role at ATC he directs the South Mountain Partnership, a landscape-scale conservation project in south-central Pennsylvania that is managed as a public-private partnership between ATC and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. His work is focused on building a collaborative process to identify a collective future vision for the landscape – one that protects the unique natural, cultural, recreational, and agricultural resources of the region. Jon has previously worked for the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, a Boston-based environmental grant-making foundation, and the Berkshire Natural Resources Council, a county-level land trust in western Massachusetts. Jon is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA in Biology and Environmental Studies, 2005) and Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (Master of Environment Management, 2012). He is a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow and a Senior Fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program.
Papers:
127
The South Mountain Partnership – Exploring the Process of Implementing Collaborative Landscape-Scale Conservation