More than 700 people gathered in Washington, DC, last October for the National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation - a thrilling testament to the increasing momentum for conservation at a scale large enough and connected enough to sustain both natural and human communities going forward.

The central goal of the Practitioners' Network is to work with all of you to sustain that forward momentum and catalyze large landscape conservation success.

Since last fall, we have crafted a new strategic plan and updated our governance structure to ensure we are as effective as possible. We have enriched the educational content of our website, including a series of new learning modules, and we are finalizing a new primer on large landscape conservation to be released this fall. We are also working to develop a national practitioners' exchange program.

These exciting efforts are highly collaborative, and we thank our many partners from the nonprofit, agency, academic, business, foundation, and community sectors.

And we encourage more of you to join us. The Practitioners' Network is a vibrant place to connect, collaborate, innovate, and inspire each other to achieve conservation at the whole systems scale that we now know is essential for the future of both wildlife and people.

Bob Bendick, Co-Chair
Emily Bateson, Co-Chair