Please join us for our next conversation in the Network’s ongoing Landscape Conservation in Action webinar series – Thursday, December 9th, at 1:00 pm (ET). Speakers will discuss legislative and regulatory matters that impact large landscape conservation with a focus on wildlife corridors and ​connectivity. This will include a discussion of legal protections on Federal and public lands, recent state legislative successes, and information on the Tribal Wildlife Corridor Act and other legislative priorities for Tribes.

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Webinar Title: Legal Protections for Large Landscape Conservation

Description: Speakers will discuss legislative and regulatory matters that impact large landscape conservation with a focus on wildlife corridors and ​connectivity. This will include legal protections on:

• Federal and public lands, focusing on current regulatory tools and statutes that would give the US Forest Service authority to engage in habitat connectivity planning and a discussion of the potential protections via a federal Wildlife Corridor bill.
• A brief summary of recent State legislative successes.
• Tribal Lands, focusing on the Tribal Wildlife Corridor Act and other legislative priorities for Tribes to support large landscape conservation and habitat connectivity.

.Presenter:

• Susan Holmes – Federal Policy Director, Wildlands Network
• Erin Sito – U.S. Public Policy Associate, Wildlands Network
• Julie Thorstenson – Executive Director, Native American Fish & Wildlife Society
• Zack Wurtzebach Ph.D. – Corridors and Crossings Program Director, Center for Large Landscape Conservation