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{"title":"Walking the land with property owners","authors":"Tom A Langen, Catherine Benson, Rick Welsh","doi":"10.1002/fee.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From the landowner’s house, we walked across a hayfield to the small wetland. At the edge of the swamp, the landowner pointed out where the beaver had been active, where he had flushed a woodcock, and where he had harvested a deer. After explaining how he managed its water levels, he asked for our opinion—did his restored wetland really have conservation value? What could he do to make it even more valuable as a natural resource?</p><p>We were part of a team investigating the ecological value of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), a public–private partnership—currently integrated into the Agency’s Agricultural Conservation Easement Program—that restores wetlands on private property where they had been lost due to agriculture, and protects them under permanent conservation easements. During that site visit and others like it, we inventoried biodiversity, assessed water quality, and documented hydrology and landscape context to evaluate whether the restored wetlands had ecological composition and functions similar to their original counterparts. We also surveyed and interviewed landowners, to find out why they decided initially to participate in the WRP, and whether they were now satisfied with the outcome.</p><p>Residents in the St. Lawrence River valley of New York State, like many rural areas in the US, are generally opposed to private-property land use regulation and to acquisition of private land by the government for conservation. Nevertheless, public–private conservation programs are popular, with over 150 landowners participating in the WRP within this region alone.</p><p>We expected that landowners would focus on federal and state tax incentives as motives to participate; for example, New York State has a property tax rebate for conservation easements. To our surprise, few landowners were aware of such incentives. Instead, they talked about the enjoyment received in walking the land with their dogs, hunting on it, and spotting wildlife with their grandchildren. They spoke about the heritage value of wetland restoration—how they wanted to conserve some nature so that their descendants would enjoy it, too. We asked about ecosystem services. While the term was unfamiliar to them, the landowners immediately grasped the concept and were pleased that what they had done might provide such services in their community.</p><p>As we sat around participants’ kitchen tables, we listened to their stories—how they came to live on the property and what owning land meant to them. Most of the landowners who initiated the public–private partnership were at retirement age. They belonged to conservation or sportsman organizations. Many were from the region, though a number had moved away for their careers and had returned after retirement. Some had been “back-to-landers” who had arrived in the early 1970s to subsistence farm, while others were the inheritors of multi-generational family farms, while still others","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managing nutritional landscapes as the next frontier in forest ecology and conservation","authors":"Kara N Youngentob,&nbsp;Annika M Felton,&nbsp;David B Lindenmayer,&nbsp;Karen J Marsh","doi":"10.1002/fee.70015","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sizable efforts and international collaborations are underway to restore natural landscape connectivity and establish green infrastructure. At the same time, there is evidence globally of how disturbance-related changes in tree composition from human activities such as reforestation, logging, fire management, and land clearing are impacting nutritional landscapes, altering ecosystem functioning, and influencing the distribution and abundance of browsers. In disturbance and restoration scenarios, the underlying chemical ecology that influences the function of these forests as food for folivores is often overlooked in management actions. This oversight can result in landscapes that fall short in their ability to support viable populations of browsers and other species that depend on them. We must improve our understanding and awareness of how plant composition affects habitat nutritional quality so that this knowledge can be applied to landscape management and restoration.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146162670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"Six elements of effective public engagement with science","authors":"Sarah Garlick,&nbsp;John C Besley,&nbsp;Karen Peterman,&nbsp;Allison Black-Maier,&nbsp;Martha R Downs,&nbsp;Emily Ortiz Franco,&nbsp;Peter M Groffman,&nbsp;Anthea Lavallee,&nbsp;Kari O’Connell,&nbsp;Martin Storksdieck,&nbsp;Pamela H Templer","doi":"10.1002/fee.70014","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The value of scientists engaging with community members and other public audiences is widely recognized, and there is a growing literature devoted to the theory and practice of public engagement with science. However, as a group of professionals concerned with how public engagement is understood and practiced in the fields of ecology and environmental science, we see a need for accessible guidance for scientists who want to engage effectively, and for scientific leaders who want to support successful public engagement programs in their institutions. Here, we highlight six attributes of successful public engagement efforts led by scientists and scientific institutions: (1) strategic, (2) cumulative, (3) reciprocal, (4) reflexive, (5) equitable, and (6) evidence-based. By designing and developing practices that incorporate these attributes, scientists and scientific organizations will be better poised to build two-way linkages with communities that, over time, support science-informed decision-making in society and societally informed decision-making in science.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145625737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation","authors":"Ivan Jarić,&nbsp;Stephanie Januchowski-Hartley,&nbsp;Stefano Mammola,&nbsp;Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte,&nbsp;Christina Lux,&nbsp;Sarah L Crowley,&nbsp;Béatrice Albert,&nbsp;Ricardo A Correia,&nbsp;Ioanna Daphne Giannoulatou,&nbsp;Jonathan M Jeschke,&nbsp;Richard J Ladle,&nbsp;Sarah Markes,&nbsp;Jane Mutiny,&nbsp;Athulya Pillai,&nbsp;Valerio Sbragaglia,&nbsp;Diogo Veríssimo,&nbsp;Uri Roll","doi":"10.1002/fee.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fee.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Collaborations between biodiversity conservation and the arts can lead to synergies and fresh approaches to intractable problems. These collaborations can yield diverse mutual benefits, such as offering reciprocal sources of inspiration, information, and learning; providing one another with new tools and resources for synthesis and innovation; securing funding; and contributing to increased visibility and influence. The arts may be uniquely poised to raise awareness, influence behavioral change, improve well-being, and assist with developing conservation tools and materials. Likewise, conservation can provide artists with relevant expertise, nature-based art material, samples, and resources, as well as inform sustainability aspects of the arts. Effective synergies between the arts and conservation will necessitate greater funding and institutional support, improved willingness to collaborate, better recognition of the benefits of artists’ involvement in interdisciplinary conservation teams, and sound empirical methods to gauge such collaborations.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145626640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}