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Scaling Up: New Strategies for Landscape-scale Conservation
Peabody Essex Museum
161 Essex Street | Salem, MA 01970
October 7, 2016 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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The Essex National Heritage Commission (Essex Heritage) will be hosting Scaling Up: New Strategies for Landscape-scale Conservation, a daylong symposium to be held on Friday, October 7, 2016 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
The educational symposium will feature regional, national and international thought leaders, who will present the conceptual framework and the partnership implementation strategies used for the protection of large lived-in landscapes such as the Essex National Heritage Area (Essex County).
The symposium’s keynote speaker will be P. Lynn Scarlett, Global Managing Director for Public Policy for The Nature Conservancy, who is a former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and a leading U.S. environmental policy executive and analyst. The program is designed for natural, historical, and cultural resource advocates such as municipal officials, regional and local planners, state agency staff, nonprofit resource stewards and college faculty.