Landscape Pattern Task Group
The Landscape Pattern Task Group will review the indicators contained in the 2002 State of the Nation's Ecosystems report that deal with issues of landscape pattern and fragmentation, some of which have not yet been fully defined. The Task Group is charged with improving the individual indicators while endeavoring to increase the consistency of these indicators across all of the ecosystem types in the report.
- Charge to the Task Group
- Meeting Notes - Oct 6-7, 2003
- Meeting Notes - January 6-7, 2004
- Meeting Notes - April 26-27, 2004
- Meeting Notes - December 2-3, 2004
Committee Members
Norm Christensen (Chair), Professor of Ecology and Founding Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
Tom Bancroft, Vice President, The Wilderness Society
Susan Bell, Professor, Department of Biology, University of South Florida
Rick Brown, Senior Resource Specialist, Defenders of Wildlife
Chris Frissell, Senior Staff Scientist, Pacific Rivers Council
John Gross, Ecologist, Inventory and Monitoring Program, National Park Service
Sharon Haines, Director of Sustainable Forestry & Forestry Policy, International Paper
Dan Heagerty, Senior Vice President and Director of Natural Resources, David Evans and Associates
Tony Janetos, Vice President, The Heinz Center
K. Bruce Jones, Chief, Landscape Ecology Branch, National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A.J. Jordan, Area Representative, Halderman Farm Management Service, Inc.
John Kupfer, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina
James A. LaGro, Jr., Professor and Department Chairperson, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kurt Riitters, Research Scientist, Forest Health Monitoring, USDA Forest Service
Gary Roloff, Wildlife and Ecology Consulting Services LLC
Ed Thompson, Jr., Senior Vice President, Public Policy, American Farmland Trust