Natural Areas Association – Stewards of the Land
For almost 50 years, the Natural Areas Association (NAA) has been at the forefront of the natural areas movement. A professional society, NAA is the only national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the support and advancement of natural areas professionals, who protect the world’s natural resources through science-based conservation, stewardship, and advocacy. From the very first Natural Areas Conference in 1974, NAA has provided a forum for leading figures in the conservation, preservation and restoration of natural areas. This periodic series will highlight some of the many NAA members who contributed significantly to the protection and management of biodiversity throughout the United States.
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Meet Glenn Patrick Juday, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Forest Ecology, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Lifetime Member of the NAA since 1983.
An interview with Jim Bissell, Ph.D., former Director of Natural Areas, Curator of Botany, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
2004 Recipient of the George B. Fell Award
Lifetime Member of the NAA since 1983.
Photo by Mike Leahy, Missouri Dept. of Conservation
On February 9, 2021, more than 50 state natural areas professionals, representing 18 states and multiple conservation programs, met to consider invertebrate conservation, including inventory, monitoring, and management.
The January 2021 issue of the Natural Areas Journal is now available. The Natural Areas Journal is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal focused on natural areas management, preservation, and restoration, featuring papers from around the globe.
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NAA Member News:
Does your organization have news to share? Contact Moira McGinty Klos at mmcgintyklos@naturalareas.org. We will share it with your colleagues in an upcoming newsletter.
• Cornell Botanic Gardens, Invasive Plant Policy – A policy document developed to balance the public garden mission of holding diverse horticultural collections with the conservation mission of preserving natural areas and the broader environment.
• Pacific Southwest Research Station – Proceedings of the seventh sudden oak death science and management symposium: healthy plants in a world with Phytophthora – Proceedings from the seventh sudden oak death science and management symposium; a forum for current research concerning sudden oak death caused by the exotic, quarantine pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum.
• State Botanical Garden of Georgia, University of Georgia, Georgia Native Plant Initiative – A collaboration between growers, landscapers, land and roadside managers, plant societies, garden clubs and Georgia gardeners that seeks to transform gardens, roadsides and landscapes across Georgia by showcasing the horticultural appeal and ecological value of native flora.
• Western New York Land Conservancy - Congratulations on raising enough funds to protect the College Lodge Forest - an Old Growth Forest!
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NAA Events
• 2022 Natural Areas Conference – The 2021 Natural Areas Conference in Duluth, MN has been rescheduled to September 6-8, 2022. The Call for Proposals is now open!
• NAA Earth Day Symposium: Nature's Firefighters: The Role of Beavers in Wildfire Mitigation and Recovery.
• March 16, 2021 – Current and Future Carbon Storage Capacity in a Southeastern Pennsylvania Forest
• April 20, 2021 – Communicating the Impact of Your Work
• Upcoming State Natural Areas Program Roundtables
- May 11, 2021
- August 20, 2021
- November 16, 2021
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