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The
Craighead Center for
Landscape Conservation
In 2007 CERI
inaugurated the Craighead Center for
Landscape Conservation (CLCC), a conservation research and education
program based in Bozeman, Montana. The core of the Center is the
staff of CERI who coordinates a network of scientists and conservation
practitioners across the United States from our state-of-the-art
computer lab and offices.
Supported with a
three-year start-up grant from the M.J.
Murdock Charitable Trust, the Center awards fellowships to scientific
experts in various fields who are working on issues in conservation
planning and implementation that are critical to maintaining
biodiversity and wildlife populations in Montana. Fellows are supported
to travel to Bozeman and work at CERI, develop solutions to
conservation problems, prepare scientific papers, present lectures and
workshops, and contribute to a book.The Center provides an analytical
framework using the best available science for conservation planning
with standardized methods and tools that improve the accuracy,
efficiency, and confidence of solutions and strategies used to conserve
large ecosystems throughout the world.
The Center does
more than just develop and refine the
best conservation science. The results produced by CLCC are
concurrently applied in the real world to effect practical conservation
solutions on the ground. As methods and strategies are tried and tested
in local communities, we identify problems, find alternate solutions,
and generate new ideas in a feedback loop which then allows us to
refine and improve our science.
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