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This report aims to clearly define habitat connectivity and highlight actionable strategies for integrating it into
local government planning. By incorporating habitat connectivity into policies, plans, and planning tools, local
governments can play a vital role in protecting natural systems and building healthier, more resilient communities,
now and for generations to come.

The document outlines the benefits of habitat connectivity for municipalities and counties, offers practical
recommendations for incorporating ecological connectivity into local government planning and implementation,
and provides examples of plans, policies, reports, case studies, and sample language from around the country that
demonstrate how connectivity can be addressed.

This report presents the findings from the 2022 Caroline Welsh Churchill Fellowship, undertaken to advance the capacity and impact of private land conservation in Australia. The Fellowship provided an opportunity to explore innovative conservation models, financing strategies, policy mechanisms, and collaboration frameworks across the United States and Canada, with the aim of applying these insights to strengthen conservation efforts in Australia.

Collaborative approaches are often applied to today’s most complex challenges and emergent opportunities. This is certainly true for the field of landscape stewardship, the practice of conserving, restoring, and stewarding landscapes and seascapes at scale. Those working in this field recognize the value of collaboration, and while pressing questions persist, the discussion has shifted. Rather than question the value of collaboration, it is more likely to be about why and how to invest in collaborative models. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the larger conversation by introducing the Collaborative Capacity Impact Model™, a data-driven framework based on an interdependent, scalable system of 15 impacts and the process of scaling up, accelerating, and sustaining those impacts. The concept of collaboratives as a special type of organizational model is discussed, along with five key collaborative design elements.

Enactment of the Clean Air Act (CAA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), three of the primary federal environmental laws, all coincided with the height of fire suppression and exclusion in the United States. These laws fail to acknowledge or account for the importance of fire in many fire-adapted and fire-dependent ecosystems, particularly in the American west, or the imperative for fire restoration to improve resiliency and reduce wildfire risk as identified by western science and Indigenous knowledge. We review the statutory and regulatory provisions of these federal laws to identify how the existing policy framework misaligns with the unique role of fire in ecosystems and with Tribal sovereignty, identify specific barriers and disincentives to beneficial fire use, and propose specific policy reforms.ion/details here.