Foreword Charles F. Wilkinson Introduction Susan Charnley, Thomas E. Sheridan, and Gary P. Nabhan Part 1 The Importance of ConservIng Western WorkIng Landscapes Chapter 1 A Brief History of People and Policy in the West Thomas E. Sheridan and Nathan F. Sayre Chapter 2 Status and Trends of Western Working Landscapes Susan Charnley, Thomas E. Sheridan, and Nathan F. Sayre Chapter 3 The Biodiversity That Protected Areas Can''t Capture: How Private Ranch, Forest, and Tribal Lands Sustain Biodiversity Gary P.
Nabhan, Richard L. Knight, and Susan Charnley Part 2 CollaboratIve Conservation Chapter 4 Beyond "Stakeholders" and the Zero- Sum Game: Toward Community- Based Collaborative Conservation in the American West Thomas E. Sheridan, Nathan F. Sayre, and David Seibert Spotlight 4.1 Historic Precedents to Collaborative Conservation in Working Landscapes: The Coon Valley "Cooperative Conservation" Initiative, 1934 Curt Meine and Gary P. Nabhan Chapter 5 The Quivira Experience: Reflections from a "Do" Tank Courtney White Spotlight 5.1 Grass- Fed and Grass- Finished Livestock Production: Helping to Keep Working Landscapes Intact Gary P. Nabhan, Carrie Balkcom, and Amanda D.
Webb Chapter 6 Place- Based Conservation Finds Its Voice: A Case Study of the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition Maia Enzer and Martin Goebel Part 3 Case Studies of WorkIng Forests Chapter 7 Swan Story Melanie Parker Spotlight 7.1 Arcata Community Forest Mark Andre Chapter 8 Taking a Different Approach: Forestland Management in the Redwood Region Mike Jani Spotlight 8.1 The Conservation Fund''s Garcia River Forest, California Chris Kelly Chapter 9 Stewardship Contracting in the Siuslaw National Forest Shiloh Sundstrom and Johnny Sundstrom Spotlight 9.1 Stewardship Agreements: The Weaverville Community Forest, California Pat Frost Part 4 Case Studies of WorkIng Ranches Chapter 10 Lava Lake Land & Livestock: The Role of Private Landowners in Landscape- Scale Conservation Michael S. Stevens Spotlight 10.1 Country Natural Beef Susan Charnley and Sophia Polasky Chapter 11 Conservation and Development at Sun Ranch: The Search for Balance in the U.S. West Roger Lang, William H.
Durham, and Josh Spitzer Spotlight 11.1 The Madison Valley Ranchlands Group Thomas E. Sheridan Chapter 12 Integrating Diversified Strategies on a Single Ranch: From Renewable Energy and Multiple Breeds to Conservation Easements Dennis Moroney Spotlight 12.1 Private Land Conservation Trends in the Western United States Jon Christensen, Jenny Rempel, and Judee Burr Part 5 EmergIng Approaches to ConservIng WorkIng Landscapes Chapter 13 The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan and Ranch Conservation in Pima County, Arizona Thomas E. Sheridan Spotlight 13.1 Ranching and the "Death Tax": A Matter of Conservation as Well as Equity Thomas E. Sheridan, Andrew Reeves, and Susan Charnley Chapter 14 Payments for Ecosystem Services: Keeping Working Landscapes Productive and Functioning Gary P. Nabhan, Laura López- Hoffman, Hannah Gosnell, Josh Goldstein, Richard Knight, Carrie Presnall, Lauren Gwin, Dawn Thilmany, and Susan Charnley Spotlight 14.
1 The Conservation Reserve Program Steven E. Kraft Conclusions and Policy Implications Thomas E. Sheridan, Gary P. Nabhan, and Susan Charnley Acknowledgments Contributor Biographies Summits Board of Advisers Index.