Next week, the Northwest Environmental Business Council and the American Forest Foundation will present a conference titled Ecosystem Markets, Making Them Work. Specific topics will include:

• The role of ecosystem markets
• The state of market development
• The business opportunity
• The international perspective
• Policy issues in market design
• Making regulatory markets work
• Progress in developing market tools
• Moving forward with voluntary markets
• Case studies of actual projects, transactions & lessons learned

The featured speaker is Sally Collins, Director of the USDA Office of Ecosystem Services & Markets.

Information on the conference can also be found at the Willamette Partnership’s website.

Thanks to the USGS for the use of this image.