

The Mobile Seminar on Planning and Managing
Tourism in Protected Areas is an intensive, 2.5 week
field-based training event for individuals working to
promote sustainable tourism and outdoor recreation
in parks and nature reserves worldwide. The seminar
will build the skills of participants to plan and manage
public use and outdoor recreation programs in protected
areas to build support for conservation, contribute to
public health, fund protected area management, and
provide economic benefits to local communities and
At present the majority of tree planting in Africa focuses on monotypic stands of non-native species, which offer limited added value in terms of biodiversity or socioeconomic opportunities.
Madison Valley Ranchlands Group has an opening for a project director. Contact MVRG at mvranch@3rivers.net Applications close on May 30. Call John Crumley with any questions - 406 682 7364 or 406 581 5602
Check out their website here: http://www.madisonvalleyranchlands.org/
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Alaina Pomeroy
Program Manager
Sustainable Northwest
813 SW Alder, Suite 500
Portland, OR 97205
This organization is a cooperative advisory-making body orgazized to resolve land management conflices in the Clearwater Basin, Idaho. This Basin is part of the largest complex of public lands in the continental United States. People from all backgrounds and points of view agree that the forests, mountains and streams here are priceless and necessary to economic, social and ecological well-being.
In the hillsides of Trinidad’s Northern Range, smallholder subsistence farming systems dominate the landscape. Pushed to this frontier by escalating pressure on low-lying agriculture lands from more urban development and a rising population, farmers continue to rely on short-term crops on the steep slopes there.
Three years ago EDF, fishermen, and critical partners like Noroeste Sustentable (NO
Natural resource managers are seeking tools to help them address current and future effects of climate change.