Acknowledgements

Project Advisory Council

We thank the members of our Project Advisory Council, a distinguished group of nationally recognized leaders in science, academia, and conservation who have come together to help ensure that the website materials and tools meet the highest scientific and conservation standards.

• Robert Costanza, Ph.D., Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont
• Michael P. Dombeck, Ph.D., Pioneer Professor of Global Environmental Management, University of Wisconsin System
• John Francis, Ph.D., VP for Research, Conservation, and Exploration, National Geographic Society (ex officio)
• The Honorable James Geringer, former governor of Wyoming, Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies, ESRI
• Mary Klein, President & CEO, NatureServe (ex officio)
• Carl W. Knobloch, Jr., Chairman, West Hill Foundation for Nature (ex officio)
• Thomas E. Lovejoy, Ph.D., President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and Chairman of National Geographic’s Conservation Trust
• Kim Nelson, Executive Director for eGovernment, Microsoft Corporation
• Walter V. Reid, Ph.D., Director, Conservation and Science Program, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Christopher Sawyer, President, West Hill Foundation for Nature (ex officio)
• Mark Shaffer, Ph.D., Program Director for the Environment, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
• James Gustave Speth, Ph.D., Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
• Rand Wentworth, President, Land Trust Alliance
• Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

LandScope America reflects the vision of Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. for advancing conservation of our nation’s natural heritage. We are deeply grateful to the West Hill Foundation for Nature for its generous philanthropic support for this project.

Partners

Thanks to the following staff of state natural heritage programs who are leading their program’s involvement as a pilot state in this initiative:

• Jason Bulluck and Tom Smith, Virginia Natural Heritage Program
• Sarah Demers and Molly Docherty, Maine Natural Areas Program, and Steve Walker, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
  
• Melissa Landon and Renee Rondeau, Colorado Natural Heritage Program
• John Gamon, Washington Natural Heritage Program
• Gary Knight and Jon Oetting, Florida Natural Areas Inventory

Thanks to our partners at the Land Trust Alliance, especially Renee Kivikko and Rob Aldrich, for their help with connecting this project firmly to the needs of land trusts. Thank you to the 180 land trust staff and volunteers across America who participated in our survey of land trusts.

Thanks to The Nature Conservancy for providing data on its ecoregional plans, and to many staff at the Conservancy -- both in the Worldwide Office in Arlington and the state chapters in Colorado, Florida, Maine, Virginia, and Washington -- for their assistance with content development.

Thanks to the many partners who have helped design and promote this initiative by participating in visioning and design workshops and assisting with outreach about the project, including:

• Carol Baudler, The Nature Conservancy
• Michael Bean, Environmental Defense
• Dave Chadwick, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
• Jennifer Ciminelli, Virginia Division of Natural Heritage
• Danielle Conboy, The Nature Conservancy
• Charles Convis, ESRI
• Christopher Miller, Piedmont Environmental Council
• Larry Orman, Green Info Network
• Peter Szabo, Principal, Bloomingdale Management Advisors
• Dan Tunstall, World Resources Institute
• Sara Vickerman, Defenders of Wildlife
• Matt Zieper, Trust for Public Land

Thanks to the team at Navigation Arts for their outstanding work on the website and project branding, especially Tom Hoover, Doug Brashear, Terry Hudson, John Lodge, Leo Mullen, and David Mead.

Finally, thanks to photographer Jack Looney for his recent work in Virginia's Clinch River Valley, which we look forward to sharing more comprehensively.

LandScope America Project Team

National Geographic
Allen Carroll
Frank Biasi
Miriam Stein

NatureServe
Bruce Stein, Editor-in-Chief
Lori Scott, Project Director
Content: Kyle Copas, Rickie White, Pat Comer, Jon Hak, Lynn Kutner, Margaret Ormes, Shannon Menard, Demian Rybock, Adele Tomaino, Jason McNees, Cameron Scott, Milo Pyne, Regan Lyons, Marion Reid
Communications and Outreach: Rob Riordan, Nancy Benton, Charles Brunton, Carol Fogelsong, Judy Soule, Cristiane Nascimento
Technology: Nicole Shaffer, Dave Hauver, Janene McCrillis

Website Design and Development by Navigation Arts.