Reed Noss is the Davis-Shine Endowed Professor at the University of
Florida. Noss is focused on systematic conservation planning at
regional to continental scales. He has designed and directed such
studies in Florida, the Pacific Northwest, California, the Rocky
Mountains, and several regions of Canada, and has been an advisor
to similar projects throughout North America and parts of Latin
America and Europe. This work seeks to identify areas requiring
protection from development and to devise management policies,
approaches, and techniques that will maintain the biodiversity and
ecological values of these areas and entire landscapes over time.
Noss has helped to pioneer methods of integrating population
viability analysis into reserve selection algorithms. He currently
focuses on fire ecology, forest and grassland restoration and
management, the Florida Grasshopper Sparrow and its dry prairie
habitat, Florida Scrub-Jays, and the Florida Panther. An emerging
theme is the responses of species (especially vertebrates) and
ecological processes to environmental conditions along
urban-wildland gradients. Road ecology (e.g., responses of wildlife
to roads and the design of wildlife crossings and barriers to
minimize impacts) and movement ecology (e.g., corridors and
connectivity) figure prominently in this research theme.
Allen Y. Cooperrider has been a consultant in conservation biology
with Big River Associates since 1991. He was educated in zoology
and wildlife biology at the University of California, Berkeley, the
University of Montana, and Syracuse University. He worked for many
years as a wildlife biologist throughout the West, including
seventeen years with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. He and his
wife live in rural Mendocino County in northern California on a
river to which he hopes salmon will someday return.
Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native
wild animals and plants in their natural communities. They focus
their programs on what scientists consider two of the most serious
environmental threats to the planet: the accelerating rate of
extinction of species and the associated loss of biological
diversity, and habitat alteration and destruction. Long known for
their leadership on endangered species issues, Defenders of
Wildlife also advocates new approaches to wildlife conservation
that will help keep species from becoming endangered. Their
programs encourage protection of entire ecosystems and
interconnected habitats while protecting predators that serve as
indicator species for ecosystem health. Founded in 1947, Defenders
of Wildlife is a 501(c)(3) membership organization with over
460,000 members and supporters nationwide.
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