Below are some of the reports from this morning's discussions. What ideas do have to add to the growing list?
- Greater pressure on all lands because increasing numbers of people - we have to do things differently
- Reaching a critical mass - climate change, population, development/pressures around parks - wake up call to do things differently
- We have matured as a profession - we are in a better frame of mind - coming from islands of hope to thinking outside of the islands
- Modern parks have been built by government and partners; need to look at them in a more non-traditional way
- The Appalachian Trail is first large landscape conservation initiative; what is different today is that we are at a change point - these early experiments have developed good models that demonstrate successful ways to work differently
- Critically important to the financial and political crisis that we are in; being able to look at partners to combine resources to keep projects going
- Risks are greater understood now -- fragmentation, population, invasives -- cumulative impact of the issues
- Web gives us greater opportunity now to disseminate information and engage more audiences - and to organize differently
- Increased awareness by the public for the need/interest/idea of large landscape conservation - and that we need to be a part of this
- The administration supports it
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