Leadership in Conservation

This article explores the urgent challenges facing white oak regeneration in Eastern U.S. forests and highlights how leadership and collaboration are key to preserving this keystone species and the ecosystems it supports.

This article highlights three conservation leaders working to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness through advocacy, community engagement, and a deep commitment to both people and place.

This article follows Steve Swenson’s two-decade journey leading landscape-scale restoration at the Aldo Leopold Foundation, highlighting how a willingness to learn from the land—and from uncertainty—has led to thriving habitats for birds, bees, and butterflies.

Healthy forest ecosystems benefit a variety of wildlife. Forests also benefit human health in a number of important ways. This story, which features two leaders in their respective efforts, pairs traditional knowledge of the effects of forests from the perspective of a Great Lakes Tribe with Western science, from the perspective of a participatory journalist.

This article shares Ethan Tapper’s journey from personal loss to ecological leadership, revealing how his evolving vision of land stewardship calls on humans to become active, compassionate participants in the ecosystems we shape.

Jeffrey H. Ryan will appear on Land Ethic Live! on August 14. Ryan wrote the book “This Land Was Saved for You and Me: How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted, and a Band of Foresters Rescued America’s Public Lands.”Land Ethic Live! is a program of the Aldo Leopold Foundation and partners.