Darya’s main project was facilitating the Colorado Coalition to Enhance Working Lands (CO-CEWL). CO-CEWL works to improve the resilience and productivity of Colorado farming and ranching lands through the creation of viable agricultural businesses and rural communities, protecting open space, and increasing the ecosystem service benefits of working lands. Darya wrote a two-year strategic plan Read more about Enhancing working lands in Colorado[…]
Shannon worked with Oregon Wild, a non-governmental organization in Oregon dedicated to the conservation of forests and wildlife across the state. She researched and developed an alternate model for the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) legislation, which has provided payments to historically timber-dependent counties in order to support them as timber harvests decline. The aim with Read more about Proposing County Payment Reforms that Incentivize Conservation of Public Forestland[…]
Ryanna supported the Council for Watershed Health (CWH) in promoting integrated regional watershed management in the greater Los Angeles region. Her projects included supporting Watershed Coordinators with the Safe Clean Water Program, an initiative that captures and cleans stormwater while generating new opportunities for open space preservation. Ryanna also conducted water sampling and habitat monitoring Read more about Community-led water resilience in the Los Angeles River Watershed[…]
Kyle worked with The Nature Conservancy, North America Natural Climate Solutions Team. He completed a regional land use planning policy analysis for a group of Western States that are part of the US Climate Alliance (Oregon, Washington, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, Colorado). His synthesis policy research and workshops aimed to build Western states’ technical Read more about Impact of land use change policies on carbon sequestration capacity of natural and working lands in the US Climate Alliance western states[…]