As Chief Operations Officer, Kathy works to ensure financial sustainability, manage organizational risk and implement human resource best practices. Hired to help build a strong foundation to support the Center’s rapid growth, Kathy concentrates on internal process and capacity improvements, as well as providing leadership around strategic planning. Kathy’s career has been focused on non-profit
Christine brings to the Center a passion for wildlife and environmental conservation, along with an extensive background in nonprofit communications. She specializes in strategic communications, digital marketing, writing, and editing. Prior to joining the Center, her work for nearly two decades focused on communications for official partner organizations of Yellowstone National Park: the Yellowstone Park
As Individual Giving Director, Michael brings a passion for landscape conservation and more than a decade of philanthropic leadership experience to CLLC’s team. In his role with the Center, Michael focuses on connecting generous supporters at all levels with CLLC’s inspiring vision and mission through strategic management of our annual giving and major gift programs.
Turn on the news. Peruse a national newspaper. Listen to a podcast. They broadcast a singular message: the world is on fire. Ecosystem collapse. Record droughts. Mass extinction. If it isn’t in your backyard yet or permeating your daily conversations, well the times they are a-changin’.
Connecting Landscapes ~ Connecting People Fragmented landscapes isolate and weaken animal populations and disrupt the natural cycles that people and wildlife need to thrive. Climate change further exacerbates these challenges, creating a dual climate/biodiversity crisis. The scale of the problem is vast—and it requires large-scale and data-driven solutions. The Center for Large Landscape Conservation works
Back in 2013, conservation journalist Ben Goldfarb toured the Highway 93 wildlife crossings on the Flathead Reservation with crossings expert Marcel Huijser, Center road ecologist Kylie Paul, and others. Little did he know that that day in Montana would send him on a journey to learn more about this world of wildlife crossings, culminating in his literary feat, CROSSINGS: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet. Roads are an omnipresent form of travel, but most humans neglect to recognize them as an obstruction to nature’s natural processes as they bisect habitats and fragment landscapes.
A cloud of slate gray stirring above the riverbed. The synchronous flapping of wings, eager and ready for the journey to the north. During this time of year, an estimated 3.5 billion birds take flight toward the northern U.S. and Canada as the spring migration is underway. During the long journey, they will have to contend with a pernicious source of pollution emanating from towns and cities: artificial light. Birds rely on light as an indicator of daily and seasonal change, and human light “pollution” can have serious negative effects on migrating birds, jeopardizing their ability to move safely through the night sky.
Rob leads the Center’s efforts in advancing wildlife corridors and ecological connectivity, drawing on over 30 years of experience in ecology, natural resource management, and environmental advocacy. He seeks to develop wildlife-friendly national, regional, and state-based policies, and test their effectiveness at the landscape level. Rob is a founding board member of the Yellowstone to
Expert design and facilitation to thoughtfully engage the people who matter most Landscapes can only be connected when people are connected and working towards common goals. Research has demonstrated that conservation success is more likely to occur when those who live, work, and recreate in a shared geography come together to develop and work towards
Jon brings more than 10 years of experience in working to advance landscape conservation. He is the Catalyst Fund Manager for the Network for Landscape Conservation (NLC), a fiscally sponsored project of the Center. Prior to joining NLC, he coordinated the South Mountain Partnership, a regional landscape conservation project in south-central Pennsylvania, and spent three
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