There is a lot of momentum building for collaborative conservation of large landscapes. The Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Network will release their strategic plan next month and is making significant progress in bringing together partners, establishing shared conservation goals, and providing managers with landscape-scale tools to help them be more effective. The U.S. Department of the Interior is embracing resiliency and adaptation planning for a changing America at unprecedented scales. All of this and much more will be featured at the National Workshop for Large Landscape Conservation (NWLLC) to be held October 23-24 in Washington D.C.

The NWLLC will showcase conservation innovation and landscape scale solutions across the public, private and nonprofit sectors ? from our urban centers to our wildest places. At the NWLLC, participants will have the opportunity to hear how the large landscape approach is being adopted across North America, the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean to produce measurable benefits for rural and urban communities, enhance water quality and habitat, protect working forests and farmland, and make more efficient use of limited financial and human resources.

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell is scheduled to give a keynote address at the mid-day plenary of the NWLLC on Thursday, October 23, 2014. Secretary Jewell will share her strategic insight into how managing at the landscape scale offers solutions to the significant conservation challenges and opportunities of the 21^st century. Her perspective brings with it a wide-ranging experience as a working scientist, a corporate CEO, and a member of the President's Cabinet. Senior officials from other parts of the federal sector, including the Agriculture and Defense departments, as well as leaders in state government, the private sector, non-profits and academia, are all participating in this year's workshop. They will be sharing practical, results-oriented tactics and strategies that provide solutions to landscape-level challenges, utilizing the latest information, science, financing mechanisms, and organizational tools.

Learn more about the NWLCC and register to attend the workshop.

Elsa Haubold is the National Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Network Coordinator.