Join us in person in Mulford 36 or via Zoom for Dr. Sharon Zou’s upcoming seminar. Dr. Zou is a Stone Center Visiting Scholar and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She will discuss her research on how national park user fees can benefit conservation beyond park boundaries.
Watch Professor Kevin Washburn (Chicksaw) of Berkeley Law’s recent Stone Center lecture on the importance of collaboration with and learning from Tribes to achieve conservation goals.
Stone Center Distinguished Scholar and former United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Undersecretary authored a new paper: “Durability by Design,” which recommends how to design federal conservation policies that can last beyond a change in administration and amidst political pendulum swings.
Faculty co-director Arthur Middleton received the 2026 Local Legend Award from Teton Science Schools on Sept 24. Nancy H. Shea, Ph.D., received the 2026 Murie Spirit of Conservation Award. Shea is the founding dean of the Teton Science Schools Graduate Program and founding director of The Murie Center in Grand Teton National Park.
Join us and the US Nature Initiative for this upcoming webinar, featuring Robert Bonnie, Stone Center Distinguished Scholar. The webinar takes place on Thursday, October 1 at 1pm ET.
Faculty co-director Arthur Middleton is quoted in this story with recommendations for a federal strategy to improve assistance for farmers while continuing to protect Gray wolves.
Faculty co-director Arthur Middleton is quoted in this story from PERC, our close collaborators at the Beyond Yellowstone Living Lab, about balancing wildlife preservation with ranching livelihoods.
David Harmon joins the Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship as a new affiliate within our Parks Collaboratory. David is the Managing Co-Editor of the Parks Stewardship Forum, a long-running journal publishing on topics relevant to the world’s parks, protected areas, cultural sites, and other forms of place-based conservation.
In Jackson Hole, Wyoming this June, UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons, Rausser College of Natural Resources Dean David Ackerly, and Arthur Middleton, Robert Bonnie, and Tucker Russell of the Stone Center shared our expertise in turning science into action and convening diverse groups in order to advance local, statewide, and federal conservation goals.
Faculty co-advisor Stephanie Carlson coauthored this study in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, which proposes a more nuanced view of evolutionary rescue (ER).