Here is Randy Kenyon’s report on the NFPA’s attendance at the recent Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent meeting in Missoula. Also note note that a conference summary in PDF format was just released by the meeting organizers.
Report on the
6th Annual Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent
September 16-18, 2015
University of Montana
Missoula, MT
By Randy Kenyon
The theme of this year’s conference was “New Ideas and Enduring Values: The Next Generation of Leadership in the Crown.”
The core mission is to connect people to enhance culture, community and conservation, with three objectives in mind: exchange information and ideas, connect people working on similar issues and foster a sense of regional identity; celebrate the links among the culture, community and conservation values and how people are working to enhance these values; and finally examine some of the most compelling issues facing the Crown and build collective capacity to address them on a local and regional level.
This year the overriding emphasis was encouraging and enhancing opportunities for the next generation of conservation activates. The conference was consistently attended by university natural resource and other students from a variety of countries.
The Crown consists of a vast and complex ecosystem straddling the continental divide, reaching south from Missoula’s Rattlesnake Wilderness north along the Flathead Reservation through the Flathead and Kootenai Forests across the boundary at Cranbrook, continuing on north until heading east to the Front where it continues south, all the way down to the Scapegoat Wilderness – including, of course, Waterton Glacier National Park – encompassing 18 million acres.
Board members John Frederick, Annemarie Harrod and Randy Kenyon attended the conference. Continue reading Report: 6th Annual Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent
