Stitching the West Back Together : Conservation of Working Landscapes.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword - Charles F. Wilkinson -- Introduction - Susan Charnley, Thomas E. Sheridan, and Gary P. Nabhan -- Part 1: The Importance of Conserving Western Working Landscapes -- Chapter 1: A Brief History of People and Policy in the West - Thomas E. Sheridan and Nathan F. Sayre -- Chapter 2: Status and Trends of Western Working Landscapes - Susan Charnley, Thomas E. Sheridan, and Nathan F. Sayre -- Chapter 3: The Biodiversity That Protected Areas Can't Capture: How Private Ranch, Forest, and Tribal Lands Sustain Biodiversity - Gary P. Nabhan, Richard L. Knight, and Susan Charnley -- Part 2: Collaborative Conservation -- Chapter 4: Beyond "Stakeholders" and the Zero-Sum Game: Toward Community-Based Collaborative Conservation in the American West - Thomas E. Sheridan, Nathan F. Sayre, and David Seibert -- Spotlight 4.1: Historic Precedents to Collaborative Conservation in Working Landscapes: The Coon Valley "Cooperative Conservation" Initiative, 1934 - Curt Meine and Gary P. Nabhan -- Chapter 5: The Quivira Experience: Reflections from a "Do" Tank - Courtney White -- Spotlight 5.1: Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished Livestock Production: Helping to Keep Working Landscapes Intact - Gary P. Nabhan, Carrie Balkcom, and Amanda D. Webb -- Chapter 6: Place-Based Conservation Finds Its Voice: A Case Study of the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition - Maia Enzer and Martin Goebel -- Part 3: Case Studies of Working Forests -- Chapter 7: Swan Story - Melanie Parker -- Spotlight 7.1: Arcata Community Forest - Mark Andre -- Chapter 8: Taking a Different Approach: Forestland Management in the Redwood Region - Mike Jani -- Spotlight 8.1: The Conservation Fund's Garcia River Forest, California - Chris Kelly -- Chapter 9: Stewardship Contracting in the Siuslaw National Forest - Shiloh Sundstrom and Johnny Sundstrom.

Spotlight 9.1: Stewardship Agreements: The Weaverville Community Forest, California - Pat Frost -- Part 4: Case Studies of Working Ranches -- Chapter 10: Lava Lake Land &amp -- Livestock: The Role of Private Landowners in Landscape-Scale Conservation - Michael S. Stevens -- Spotlight 10.1: Country Natural Beef - Susan Charnley and Sophia Polasky -- Chapter 11: Conservation and Development at Sun Ranch: The Search for Balance in the U.S. West - Roger Lang, William H. Durham, and Josh Spitzer -- Spotlight 11.1: The Madison Valley Ranchlands Group - Thomas E. Sheridan -- Chapter 12: Integrating Diversified Strategies on a Single Ranch: From Renewable Energy and Multiple Breeds to Conservation Easements - Dennis Moroney -- Spotlight 12.1: Private Land Conservation Trends in the Western United States - Jon Christensen, Jenny Rempel, and Judee Burr -- Part 5: Emerging Approaches to Conserving Working Landscapes -- Chapter 13: The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan and Ranch Conservation in Pima County, Arizona - Thomas E. Sheridan -- Spotlight 13.1: Ranching and the "Death Tax": A Matter of Conservation as Well as Equity - Thomas E. Sheridan, Andrew Reeves, and Susan Charnley -- Chapter 14: Payments for Ecosystem Services: Keeping Working Landscapes Productive and Functioning - Gary P. Nabhan, Laura López-Hoffman, Hannah Gosnell, Josh Goldstein, Richard Knight, Carrie Presnall, Lauren Gwin, Dawn Thilmany, and Susan Charnley -- Spotlight 14.1: The Conservation Reserve Program - Steven E. Kraft -- Conclusions and Policy Implications - Thomas E. Sheridan, Gary P. Nabhan, and Susan Charnley -- Acknowledgments -- Contributor Biographies -- Summits Board of Advisers -- Index.

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