My colleague Buck Kline, at the Virginia Department of Forestry, attended the Wildlife Habitat Council 1st Ecosystem Services conference last week in Maryland. He just forwarded me his speaker’s notes for Sally Collins’s presentation. Sally Collins, as folks may know, is the new Director of the USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets.
Ms. Collins’s comments [...]

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 [...]