2012 SFAN Science Symposium
2012 SFAN Science Symposium. 2012
Beyond Our Silos: Developing a More Complete Picture of Natural Resource Management and Protection The parks and their partners do a tremendous amount of work to protect and manage park natural resources, but none of it occurs in isolation. How are partnerships and collaborative projects shaping resource protection? How are individual projects related to the broader resource protection and management picture? How are things connected across time? Geography? Our institutional landscapes? The 2012 Science and Natural Resources Symposium attempted to tell a fuller story of park science and resource management with presentations that covered a diverse range of projects that bridge time, geography, disciplines, and organizations. Our plenary speaker, scientist-turned-storyteller Kendall Haven (http://www.kendallhaven.com/), began the day by helping us understand how context and stories are essential to making science relatable, relevant, and memorable.