Natural communities symposium presentations
On April 1, 2006, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences and the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program hosted a half-day symposium on the natural communities of Massachusetts and surrounding states. The event was attended by more than 80 ecologists, conservation professionals, municipal committee and board members, educators, and volunteers. Bringing diverse interests together to address natural resources issues, as occurred at this symposium, is part of Manomet's mission.Presenters at the symposium included a highly regarded panel of seven conservation biologists, ecologists, and botanists who discussed the creation and application of natural community classifications. The following is a list of topics and speakers who presented at the symposium. Several of the presentations are available for download.
Topics/speakers
Classifying Massachusetts Natural Communities: Where We Are Today, and Where We Might Go -- Pat Swain, Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, MassWildlifeDownload the above presentation (PDF)
The Natural Communities of Rhode Island -- Julie Lundgren, Rhode Island Field Office, The Nature Conservancy -- presentation not available for download
The Bigger Picture: Patterns of Natural Communities in the Landscape -- Dan Sperduto, New Hampshire natural Heritage Bureau
Download the above presentation - Part 1 (PDF)
Download the above presentation - Part 2 (PDF)
Download the above presentation - Part 3 (PDF)
Mapping Natural Communities: Lessons from Camp Edwards, Cape Cod -- Michael Ciaranca, Massachusetts Army National Guard
Download the above presentation - Part 1 (PDF)
Download the above presentation - Part 2 (PDF)
Comprehensive Natural Community Mapping in the Housatonic Watershed -- Kasey Rolih
Download the above presentation (PDF)
Bioinventory and Community Classification on MassWildlife Forestlands -- Nancy Putnam, Forest Inventory Project, MassWildlife
Natural Communities of the Mt. Holyoke Range -- Karen Searcy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Download the above presentation (PDF)
Defining Natural Communities: How Large, How Persistent, and How Native? -- Roundtable Discussion
Support for the symposium was provided in part by the Massachusetts Environmental Trust and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
