Historic Gift from Tompkins Conservation Helps Chile Protect 10 Million Acres as New National Parks
In a ceremony in Chile’s Pumalín Park, American conservationist Kris Tompkins (left) and Chilean president Michelle Bachellet announced the historic expansion of Chile’s national parkland by 10 million acres. Photograph by Jimmy Chin (National Geographic) Historic Gift from Tompkins Conservation Helps Chile Protect 10 Million Acres as New National Parks Pumalín Park, Chile – March […]
Insights from Inuvialuit Comanagement Efforts
Photo credit: Will Tyson Using social-ecological systems theory to evaluate large-scale comanagement efforts: a case study of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region Ecology and Society 22(1):5. New journal article by William Tyson, Round River staff member and alumnus ABSTRACT Comanagement efforts are increasingly tasked with overseeing natural resource governance at a large scale. I examine comanagement of subsistence […]
The president did the right thing: Bears Ears National Monument
The president did the right thing: Bears Ears National Monument By Stephen Trimble, December 28, 2016, LA Times Op-Ed President Obama deserves our gratitude for designating the rich natural and cultural treasure of the Bears Ears region in southeastern Utah as a national monument. He had to think big. In granting 1.35 million acres of federal land […]