Networks We Host

Founded in partnership with the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy in 2012, the Network for Landscape Conservation (NLC) is building a rapidly growing community of practice of more than 100 organizations and 2,500 individual members. Participants are active in the field at different scales, managing landscapes from those as small as urban parks to continental transboundary ecosystems.

NLC also operates the Catalyst Fund, a national grant program of NLC that will distribute at least 1.2 million dollars to landscape conservation partnerships over a five-year period. Learn more about NLC

Questions? please contact NLC Manager Jonathan Peterson.

United States Biosphere Network

The US Biosphere Network (USBN) is made up of 28 internationally recognized places across the continental United States, the US Caribbean, Alaska, and Hawai’i called biosphere regions. Communities and organizations work together in biosphere regions to connect people and nature, from deserts to forests, grasslands to rivers, and mountains to oceans and coasts. Biosphere regions are voluntary and nonregulatory in their approach. Although they include state and national parks, national forests, national marine sanctuaries, and other conservation areas, they also focus on partnerships with private landowners and local communities where people live and work.

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_{Banner photo: Cascade Head, Oregon – USFWS/Matthew Tharp}