Seminars

Spring 2010 Seminar Schedule

Collaborative Conservation in Practice: Local to Global Perspectives

 12:00 - 1:00 pm

This semester’s CCC seminar and discussion series continues from past semesters, providing a forum to learn about and discuss the principles, practice and challenges of doing collaborative conservation work in the US West and around the world. We aim to develop a lively ‘community of practice’ of practitioners, faculty, students and other stakeholders working in this area. The speakers include those working in collaborative conservation as practitioners, ranchers, extension agents, researchers, business people and land users. The format for the series provides ample time for discussion of major challenges and emerging issues in collaborative conservation.

2 February (215 LSC): Ryan Finchum & Josh Goldstein

 Conservation Leadership Through Learning Program (CLTL), WCNR, CSU

"Filling the Educational Gap: Training the Next Generation of Practitioners to be Real-World Conservation Leaders"
 

 

16 February (215 LSC): CSU Fellows David Nkedienye and Arren Mendezona

 Reto-o-Reto, Kenya, and CSU’s Dept of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

"Personal experiences of Collaborative Conservation and Research in our home countries of Kenya and the Philippines"
 

 

2 March (216 LSC) : Robin Reid

 Center for Collaborative Conservation (CCC), WCNR, CSU

"Where should the CCC go next?"
 

 

30 March (230 LSC) : Art Goodtimes

County Commissioner, San Miguel County, Colorado

"Lessons on collaboration from San Miguel County"

 

 

6 April (216 LSC): CCC Fellows Adam Beh & Joana Roque de Pinho

CSU’s Dept of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology

Photovoice as a Means for Participatory Action in Kenya: Visions of Conservation in Kajiado and Samburu
 

 

20 April (226 LSC): Carl Hammerdorfer

 Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise Program, College of Business, CSU

Business, entrepreneurship and sustainable development
 

 

4 May (216 LSC): CCC Fellow Ashley Cobb

CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources

Natural Resource Collaboration: Tackling the Hard Questions in the Intermountain West

  

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  PAST EVENTS

 

The CCC co-hosted a special seminar on October 6, 2009 presented by Dr. Tony Sinclair (Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia).

Title:  Long-term Changes in the Serengeti Ecosystem:  Lessons for Conservation and Society

 

Abstract
Long-term studies in Serengeti have allowed an understanding of ecosystem dynamics. We used both natural and anthropogenic disturbances as experiments to understand how the system functioned. The main perturbation that provided insight to the system dynamics was the change in the wildebeest population due to the removal of an exotic virus, rinderpest. This experiment showed how different components of the ecosystem are integrated. This and other disturbances over a 50 year period have shown up the mechanisms underlying both slow change and sudden non-linear fast change resulting in multiple states and complex indirect effects. I illustrate such events with elephants, lions and antelopes in Serengeti.  One conclusion is that ecosystems evolve and this provides the background for evolution of individual species.
The lessons learnt from these studies are relevant both to fundamental science and to the way society must manage their own systems for long-term sustainability. In particular, protected areas act as the ecological baseline where human-induced change is kept to a minimum. Lessons from these baselines were vital in understanding migrations, famines and human welfare in Africa.

 

Short Bio for Anthony R.E. (Tony) Sinclair
Dr. Sinclair began research for his Ph.D. in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania on the population regulation of African buffalo.  Subsequently, he studied the regulation of the wildebeest and other ungulate populations, looking at the effects of food supply and predation.  He has examined the causes of migration and its consequences on ecosystem processes.  He has documented multiple states in Serengeti savannah and grassland communities.  He has expanded these interests to include bird, insect and reptile faunas as part of the long-term dynamics of ecosystems.  These studies have covered over 40 years and have been synthesized in three books on the Serengeti ecosystem.  He has worked in Canada on boreal forest ecosystems, in particular on cycles of snowshoe hares for 20 years.  He has also worked on endangered marsupial mammal populations and predation by exotic carnivores in Australia and similar systems in New Zealand.  He was until recently Director of the Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.  He is a member of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada.

 

2008-2009 CCC Seminar and Discussion Series

“Collaborative Conservation in Practice: Local to Global Perspectives”
This seminar and discussion series provides a forum to learn about and discuss the principles, practice and challenges of collaborative conservation work in the US West and around the world.  We aim to develop a lively ‘community of practice’ of practitioners, faculty, students and other stakeholders working in this area. The speakers include those working in collaborative conservation as practitioners, ranchers, extension agents, researchers, business people and land users.  The format for the series provides ample time for discussion of major challenges and emerging issues in collaborative conservation.

All Spring Seminars will be held on Tuesdays 12-1pm in Room 216 Lory Student Center, CSU.  The series is brown bag and open to the public, so feel free to bring your lunch.

2009 - 2009 CCC Seminar and Disscussion Series
SPRING 2009 SCHEDULE

 

3 February
Maria Fernandez-Gimenez Department of Forest, Range, and Watershed Stewardship, WCNR, CSU ‘Engaging Communities through Participatory Research: Transformative Potential and Practical Challenges’
Seminar Flyer pdf		 17 February
Jeff Jahnke Colorado State Forest Service ‘Collaborative Conservation for Colorado's Forests’
Seminar Flyer pdf
3 March
Michele Betsill Political Science, CSU ‘Collaborative Conservation as a form of environmental governance: Opportunities for research’
Seminar Flyer pdf		 24 March
Ed Warner CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources and the Sand County Foundation ‘The Cooperative Sagebrush Initiative: A possible means of reducing conflicts between stakeholders’
Seminar Flyer pdf		  
7 April
Jeff Jones The Conservation Cooperative ‘Collaborative conservation on agricultural lands in the Rockies: Trends and tools for success’
Seminar Flyer pdf		 21 April
Nina Burkardt USGS Social Sciences‘Making natural resource management decisions amidst disputes over science: A study of Bureau of Reclamation decision processes’
Seminar Flyer pdf
5 May
Lee Scharf Mediated and Environmentally Sustainable Action, LLC‘Works in Progress: Tribal Sovereignty, Collaborative Processes and Conservation Practice’
Seminar Flyer pdf
 

Check out our FALL 2008 SCHEDULE!