How the CDT Gets Us to the Goals of America the Beautiful
This webinar will introduce the Connecting Across the Continent Report, demonstrating how the CDT and the National Trails System can provide a path forward for reaching aspirational conservation goals like protecting 30% of lands and water by 2030, strengthening consultation with and increasing equity for underserved communities, and elevating locally-led climate solutions.
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February 03, 2022
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Pacific Time) {more time zones}
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The Connecting Across the Continent Report, released by the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, sets the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDT) as a placed-based anchor for having conversations around large landscape conservation. With the framework provided in the Biden administration’s 2021 Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful initiative, this report demonstrates how the CDT and the National Trails System can provide a path forward for reaching aspirational conservation goals like protecting 30% of lands and water by 2030, strengthening consultation with and increasing equity for underserved communities, and elevating locally-led climate solutions. This session will provide an introduction to the America the Beautiful initiative and large landscape conservation, details on the value of the natural, historical, and cultural resources of the Continental Divide, and a strategy for how the cooperative management structure of the CDT can be utilized as one of the most innovative and adaptive tools in the pursuit of ambitious conservation goals.
This webinar qualifies as a Health, Safety, and Welfare (HSW) course (via LA CES).
Continental Divide Trail Coalition
Connecting Across the Continent Report
How the Continental Divide Trail Helps Us Reach 30x30
Biden Administration’s
Center for American Progress
L Fisher, Trail Policy Manager, Continental Divide Trail Coalition
Helena, Montana
L Fisher (they/them) is an educator and community organizer who grew up in rural Indiana. They received dual degrees in Philosophy and Political Science before earning their Masters in Political Science from Indiana University. Before moving out west, they worked on campaigns and in policy advocacy throughout Indiana and parts of Texas. Luke’s passion for environmental policy eventually took them to Montana, where they worked as a conservationist and outdoor educator along the Rocky Mountain Front before joining the Continental Divide Trail Coalition as the Trail Policy Manager.
Lauren Hendricks, GIS Program Manager, Continental Divide Trail Coalition
Golden, Colorado
Lauren Hendricks (she/her) grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, blocks from the Superior Hiking Trail. She has been fortunate to combine her passion for outdoor activities with her interest in maps, spatial data, and ecology into a PhD in geography from the University of Oregon. Along the way she studied environmental science and engineering in Maine and New Hampshire, helped identify potential conservation partnerships as a GIS analyst in Virginia, studied how prairie plants in Oregon might react to future climate change while earning her master’s degree, worked on an atlas of ungulate migration in Wyoming, and spent months living in the rainforest of Borneo to better understand the role of fire in tropical forest over the last 3000 years. She is now based out of Golden, Colorado, where she serves as the GIS Program Manager with the Continental Divide Trail Coalition.
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