This realization has important implications for nature conservancy and ecosystem management, but it has yet to be embraced by applied biodiversity monitoring.
Plenty of lawn-obsessed people read the paper, have college degrees, support the Nature Conservancy; they cannot possibly think the chemicals they dump on their grass are good for their children or wildlife or groundwater, yet they dump them anyway.
The research was conducted with support from The Nature Conservancy as part of the organization's effort to integrate information about global fire regimes into planning for biodiversity conservation.
I worked for a year for The Nature Conservancy assisting in the development of projects for land conservation in Bolivia and Peru.
Eric Haxthausen, the United States climate policy director for the Nature Conservancy, has generally supported the administration's goals and actions on energy and environment, although he said they fell short of what was needed to address global warming.
Timber giants Weyerhaeuser, Georgia-Pacific and J.M. Huber traditional fat targets for greens are logging at Nature Conservancy preserves in Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina and Virginia.
Trish Pelkowski, site director of the pine barrens for the Nature Conservancy, said the 755 acres of grassland, the largest remaining such habitat on Long Island, supports the island's largest cluster of short-eared owls.
Later, he was a field researcher for the Nature Conservancy.
Look for the Nature Conservancy parking lot on the left.
Craig Leisher is the senior social science adviser for the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental group.
Philip Rutkowski, a Hofstra University student, has been spending the summer measuring the regrowth for The Nature Conservancy.
