cROWN OF THE CONTINENT
LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION DESIGN
OUR VISION
Ensuring a resilient, connected landscape that supports healthy ecosystems and human communities
Conservation without borders
Crown Managers Partnership (CMP) is leading integrative, data-informed conservation planning. The goal is to bring all of the great science, knowledge, and planning across the Crown into a landscape scale ‘design’ that considers not only wildlife and ecosystems, but cultural, social, and economic priorities as well.
CMP and a vast diversity of stakeholders in the Crown have developed outstanding conservation programs focused on specific species and ecosystems (e.g., whitebark pine, native salmonids). We are now poised to collectively integrate these programs and actions across the landscape through collaborative visioning and optimization modeling.
GOALS
To rely upon cutting-edge science, Indigenous knowledge, and modeling to collectively increase the resilience of waters, forests, grasslands, and creatures
To sustain healthy ecosystems, communities, and economies through working lands partnerships
To recognize and highlight the leadership, history, culture, and traditional territories of Indigenous peoples as we plan for the future
what is a landscape conservation design?
Landscape conservation design (LCD) is a proven landscape scale design that provides a framework to help a diversity of agencies and organizations to understand the context of their jurisdictional activities – helping all stakeholders achieve their own missions while sustaining ecosystem function at broader scales.
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The crown lcd Progress and accomplishments
Crown LCD Phase 2 Report
LCD Phase 2 Report, April 2025 (full report) | Executive Summary
OUR COMMITTEES
Leadership Team
The Leadership Team includes a diversity of social, economic, and environmental stakeholders living in the Crown of the Continent ecosystem.
Technical Team
The Technical Team is comprised of technical specialists that ensure analysts are using the best data available and vetted analytical approaches.
Analysis Team
The Analysis Team, which carries out the work plan, works with and under the guidance of the Leadership Team and in collaboration with the Technical Team.
Your participation will help shape the future Crown of the Continent. Please contact us for more information about the LCD and how to become involved.
crownmanagers@gmail.com