Co-sponsored by the Howe Library, the Linking Lands Alliance, the Hanover Conservancy, and the Hanover Conservation Commission. This program may be attended in person or by Zoom (Zoom registration is below; no registration required in person).

Thinking on a landscape scale is key when considering wide-ranging wildlife, biodiversity, forest functionality, ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, and climate resilience. Regional and local GIS maps help us examine forest connections to inform place-based education, conservation efforts, land use planning, and zoning decisions.

Craig Layne, Linking Lands Alliance, will discuss LLA's use of mapping to protect wildlife corridors in Vermont and New Hampshire. Adair Mulligan of the Hanover Conservancy will address the Conservancy's use of such criteria, among others, in selecting lands to conserve. John Roe, forest ecologist, sponsored by the Hanover Conservation Commission, will speak on corridor quality and resilience, and the value of old growth forests.

Craig Layne, of the Linking Lands Alliance, has a background in aquatic ecology and botany. His vocation is science education, especially ecology and natural history. His avocation is wildlife and forest ecology and the conservation thereof. These aspects of his past and present make it not surprising he became interested in issues of landscape ecology and ecosystems resilience.

Adair Mulligan is Executive Director of the Hanover Conservancy, where she introduced GIS mapping to help the land trust set its strategic conservation priorities. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Biology from Smith College and has worked in the conservation field for 40 years. The author of a number of publications and of essays in Where the Great River Rises and Beyond the Notches, she is also a speaker for the New Hampshire Humanities Council’s “Humanities to Go” program. 

John Roe, Forest Ecologist, will speak for the Hanover Conservation Commission on corridor quality and resilience, and the value of old growth forests.