Michael Whitfield
Heart of the Rockies Initiative
Driggs,
ID
USA
Biographical Sketch: MICHAEL B. WHITFIELD is the Executive Director of the Heart of the Rockies Initiative, a partnership of 24 land trusts in the US Northern Rockies of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming and southern British Columbia and Alberta in Canada. The Initiative works to foster landscape scaled conservation through collaborative conservation planning and development of conservation capacity and capital. Michael recently completed 7 years of service as a founding Commissioner on the national Land Trust Accreditation Commission with the Land Trust Alliance. He was the founding board president and long-term executive director of the Teton Regional Land Trust. He is also a former Forest Service biologist and currently a research associate for the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, through which he investigates the ecological needs of sensitive wildlife species, like the bald eagle, great gray owl, and bighorn sheep, and partners with management agencies to conserve their habitats. He is a recipient of the Craighead Conservation Award.
Papers:
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Application of Ecosystem Partnerships and Landscape Conservation Science to Link Large Protected Areas and Local Communities Across the High Divide, Idaho and Montana
P21
Heart of the Rockies Initiative: Building landscape-scale success from local, community-grounded conservation