Past years

CONVERGENCE 2016

History and Potential of Landscape Conservation in Downeast Region – Viewpoints From Across the Communities of the Region


CONVERGENCE 2015

Sustainability: Planning to Protect Downeast Resources and Communities over the Long Term
held Thursday October 8th 2015 at Schoodic Institute in Winter Harbor.

Generously sponsored by Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park and the Maine Community Foundation.


CONVERGENCE 2014

Land and Water: the Conservation Connection
held Thursday 2 October 2014 at Schoodic Institute on the Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC) Campus in Acadia National Park in Winter Harbor.

Generously sponsored by Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park and the Maine Community Foundation.


CONVERGENCE 2013

Landscape-Level Conservation in Down East Maine: Collaborating for Strategic Effectiveness
held 23 October 2013 at Schoodic Education and Research Center (SERC), Winter Harbor, Maine.

Generously sponsored by Frenchman Bay Conservancy and the Maine Community Foundation, Elmina B. Sewall Foundation, and Davis Conservation Foundation.

Speakers’ Presentations

  • Welcome, Barbara Arter, Director of DEREN
  • James Levitt, Director of the Program on Conservation Innovation, Harvard Forest
  • Bill Labich, Regional Conservation Partnership Network, Highstead, Redding CT
  • Panel Discussion: Local Landscape Level Conservation with Regional Land Trusts
  • Andrew Cutko, Ecologist, Maine Natural Areas Program, ME Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
  • Joshua Royte, Conservation Planner, the Maine Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
  • Mark Berry, Executive Director, Downeast lakes Land Trust (PPT is not available. For more information please click here.)

CONVERGENCE 2012

The Value of Conservation in Down East Maine
held Friday 8 June 2012 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine

Conference Presentations:

 


CONVERGENCE 2011

June 17, 2011 UMM, Machias, ME

 


Down East Research, Education, and Conservation Roundtable

August 23, 2010