The America's Longleaf Restoration Initiative is considered one of the premier landscape-scale partnerships in the country. This session will highlight the Initiative's recent 15-year progress celebration, plus share for those outside the longleaf pine world years of lessons learned on landscape-scale restoration and collaboration. 

Introduction: Jon Scott, Program Director Southern Forests, NFWF

Speaker: Jamelle Ellis, Senior Scientist, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnerships, and incoming Chair of the Longleaf Partnership Council