Sum­ma­ry: More evi­dence that the Amer­i­can sovi­et agen­cies and the pub­lic pri­vate part­ner­ship par­tic­i­pants are seek­ing a widen­ing pur­suit in the abo­li­tion of pri­vate prop­er­ty and the advance of polit­i­cal Region­al­ism. The focus here is rur­al landown­ers. America’s resources are being gath­ered in order to cen­tral­ize power. 

“They are mov­ing fast.” – Heather Gass

From the NatureServe.org web­site:

Join Us at Biodiversity Without Boundaries 2014!

New Orleans, Louisiana is the site of NatureServe’s next Bio­di­ver­si­ty With­out Bound­aries (BWB) con­fer­ence, tak­ing place from April 6–10, 2014. BWB is where the Nature­Serve net­work, our part­ners, and our friends gath­er to cel­e­brate our suc­cess­es, col­lab­o­rate on new ini­tia­tives, share our inno­va­tions, and design the future. More than ever, we’ll be empha­siz­ing edu­ca­tion, work­ing ses­sions, and net­work­ing. Join us in our dis­cus­sions about how we are pro­vid­ing, and how we can con­tin­ue to pro­vide, the sci­en­tif­ic basis for effec­tive conservation.

With one of the world’s most fas­ci­nat­ing cities as the back­drop, Nature­Serve and the Louisiana Nat­ur­al Her­itage Pro­gram are plan­ning a full and sat­is­fy­ing con­fer­ence. Nature­Serve Method­ol­o­gy Train­ing will be offered Sat­ur­day through Mon­day. Sunday’s field trips will explore south­ern Louisiana’s beau­ti­ful and diverse wild­lands – cypress-tupe­lo swamps, bays, marsh­es, man­groves, bot­tom­land hard­wood forests, che­nier wood­lands, and rem­nant prairies. Work­shops will explore how mem­ber pro­grams can stay rel­e­vant in an increas­ing­ly com­pet­i­tive envi­ron­ment, and how to design a pro­gram to pro­vide the basis for effec­tive con­ser­va­tion action. Oth­er high­lights include the mem­ber pro­gram awards recep­tion, and the Nature­Serve Con­ser­va­tion Award din­ner (past win­ners include Walt Reid, William Ruck­elshaus, and E.O. Wilson).

Con­tin­ue here:  https://connect.natureserve.org/training/BWB2014