Water use

The Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council will be hosting an Alaskan Conservation Foundation Internship this year.  The successful candidate will be either currently enrolled in university or a recent graduate.    

Interested in becoming a more effective conservation leader? The Society for Conservation Biology will host a 2-day "Building Leadership Capacity in Conservation" workshop at the 2013 International Congress for Conservation Biology in Baltimore. This highly interactive workshop is for 25 conservation professionals from around the world, tailored to the unique needs of conservation scientists and practitioners at any stage in their career.

A recent article in the journal Ecosystem

Kinship Conservation Fellows is a ground-breaking environmental leadership program that emphasizes market-based solutions to environmental problems.

Abstract Deadline – Just 4 Weeks Away

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation . . .  Though the title is dry, the course itself will be rich with discussion, thought provoking, and stimulating for personal growth and professional development.   At first glance, this course may seem adequate for program directors, office administrators, state and federal evaluators, and anyone else with a brief case or clip board.

Because conventional markets value only certain goods or services in the oceans(e.g., fish), other services prodvideded by coastal and marine ecosystems that l tend to become degraded. In fact, the very capacity of an ecosystem to produce a valued good is often reduced because markets are valuing only the good, not the productive capacity.

Happy New Year! As 2013 gets underway we have one more retrospective on the year past. 2012 saw water issues crop up repeatedly. Droughts, flooding, and storms brought the extremes of water availability into focus, and the dependency of agriculture on the resource made it a key sector. Several case studies from landscapes worldwide highlighted these issues.

Restoration Coordinator, Wildlands Restoration Volunteers

DURATION: Full-Time Temporary position

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  Friday, January 4, 2013, or until position is filled.

EMPLOYMENT PERIOD: Appox. February 11 to November 25, 2013

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For the last fifteen years, I’ve worked as a volunteer – a citizen anthropologist – in the collaborative conservation movement sweeping across the American West.  I co-founded the Arizona Common Ground Roundtable in 1997.  For the next five years, we (the Roundtable) sponsored forums across the state to bring ranchers, environmentalists, and sportsmen together to talk about the future of Arizona’s wide-open spaces.