Land Use & Open Space Conservation

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Fen Levy

2024 Fellow
Fen is an avian ecologist unraveling how forested landscapes can jointly support ecosystems and human need. Their work centers around the North Woods, a unique mosaic of 10 million acres of largely private commercial forestland in present...
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Selena Rowan

2024 Fellow
Selena Rowan is a master's student in Energy Technology and Policy at Cal Poly Humboldt, focusing on rural climate resilience and holistic land management. She combines data modeling and policy analysis with a commitment to community health, ecological restoration, and environmental stewardship to develop innovative solutions for healthy forests in California.
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Alexii Sigona

2024 Fellow
Alexii (Amah Mutsun Tribal Band) uses ethnographic research to examine opportunities for tribal land access and co-management through collaborative stewardship in central coastal California. He serves on the Lands Committee of Amah Mutsun...
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Chelsea Kirk

2024 Fellow
Chelsea Kirk is the Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Building Equity and Transit team at Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, a nonprofit dedicated to building community leadership and power for economic justice. Chelsea's work...
Fellow Story

Expanding the bull’s eye of solar development on public lands

“For a meaningful and productive conversation it is critical to see these issues—opposition to use of public lands versus opposition to large-scale solar—as distinct," Dustin Mulvaney writes in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
April 17, 2024
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Urban Biodiversity and Equity book features Switzer Fellow contributors

J. Morgan Grove, Nicole Heller, Sarah Reed and Christine Wilkinson contributed to this text advancing justice-centered biodiversity conservation in cities and demonstrating the necessity of, and tools for, simultaneously addressing social inequities and biodiversity conservation.
January 18, 2024
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Aja Grande: a reciprocal relationship with the land in Hawaiʻi

Through community-based research with organizations that work to “hoʻomomona hou i ka ʻāina,” or “restore that which feeds back to abundance,” Switzer Fellow Aja Grande has embarked on a healing journey of her own.
December 21, 2023
Leadership Grant Grant

Realizing a Resilient Edgmere: an Intersection of Housing, Equity and Environment

As Interim Manager, Doug will lead the ReAL Edgemere Community Land Trust through the process of designing flood-resilient coastal infrastructure and accessible open space to benefit the community and environment of Edgemere.
December 11, 2023
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de Bremond’s Global Land Programme moves from Switzerland to Maryland

Ariane de Bremond's international research program that focuses on land use for agriculture and other purposes amid environmental change moved headquarters to the University of Maryland.
August 14, 2023
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Wilson Morris contributes to natural infrastructure plan for Texas Hill Country

The Plan aims to provide data-driven solutions and priorities for conserving natural resources within the Texas Hill Country and includes a written report, maps, and recommendations for a path forward.
July 26, 2023