Erica Fleishman,^* David E. Blockstein,^** John A. Hall,^*** Michael B. Mascia,^**** Murray A. Rudd,^***** J. Michael Scott,^****** William J. Sutherland,^******* Ann M. Bartuska,^******** A. Gordon Brown,^********* Catherine A. Christen,^********** Joel P Clement,^*********** Dominick Dellasala,^************ Clifford S. Duke,^{*************} Marietta Eaton,^{**************} Shirley J. Fiske,^{***************} Hannah Gosnell,^{****************} J. Christopher Haney,^{*****************} Michael Hutchins,^{******************} Mary L. Klein,^{*******************} Jeffrey Marqusee,^{********************} Barry R. Noon,^{*********************} John R. Nordgren,^{**********************} Paul M. Orbuch,^{***********************} Jimmie Powell,^{************************} Steven P. Quarles,^{*************************} Kathryn A. Saterson,^{**************************} Charles C. Savitt,^{***************************} Bruce A. Stein,^{****************************} Michael S. Webster,^{*****************************} Amy Vedder<sup>******************************


*</sup>Erica Fleishman (efleishman@ucdavis.edu) is researcher with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara (currently a researcher with the John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis).
^**David E. Blockstein is executive secretary, Council of Environmental Deans and Directors, and a senior scientist at the National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, DC.
^***John A. Hall is program manager for resource conservation and climate change at the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program/Environmental Security Technology Certification Program of the US Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia.
^****Michael B. Mascia is senior social scientist, Conservation Science Program, at the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC.
^*****Murray A. Ruddis lecturer in the Environment Department at the University of York, United Kingdom.
^******J. Michael Scott is a biologist with the US Geological Survey, leader of the Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and a professor in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources at the University of Idaho in Moscow.
^*******William J. Sutherland is Miriam Rothschild Chair in Conservation Biology with the Conservation Science Group in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
^********Ann M. Bartuska is deputy chief for research and development with the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research in Washington, DC (currently deputy undersecretary for research, education, and economics at the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC).
^*********A. Gordon Brown is invasive species coordinator, US Department of the Interior, and liaison to the National Invasive Species Council in Washington, DC.
^**********Catherine A. Christen is a graduate and professional training manager with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.
^***********Joel Clement is the conservation science program officer for the Wilburforce Foundation in Seattle, Washington (currently director of the Office of Policy Analysis of the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC).
^************Dominick DellaSala is chief scientist and president of Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon.
^{*************}Clifford S. Duke is director of science programs at the Ecological Society of America in Washington, DC.
^{**************}Marietta Eaton is science coordinator for the National Landscape Conservation System at the US Bureau of Land Management in Washington, DC.
^{***************}Shirley J. Fiske is an adjunct professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Maryland.
^{****************}Hannah Gosnell is an assistant professor in the Geosciences Department at Oregon State University.
^{*****************}J. Christopher Haney is chief scientist at Defenders of Wildlife in Washington, DC.
^{******************}Michael Hutchins is executive director of The Wildlife Society in Bethesda, Maryland.
^{*******************}Mary L. Klein is president of NatureServe in Arlington, Virginia.
^{********************}Jeffrey Marqusee is executive director of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program/Environmental Security Technology Certification Program at the US Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia.
^{*********************}Barry R. Noon is a professor in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
^{**********************}John R. Nordgren is senior program officer at the Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan.
^{***********************}Paul M. Orbuch is principal of Orbuch Consulting, LLC in Boulder, Colorado.
^{************************}Jimmie Powell is the energy team lead at The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia.
^{*************************}Steven P. Quarles is partner and chair of the Environment and Natural Resources Group at Crowell and corals Moring, LLC, in Washington, DC.
^{**************************}Kathryn A. Saterson is assistant laboratory director of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
^{***************************}Charles C. Savitt is president of Island Press in Washington, DC.
^{****************************}Bruce A. Stein is associate director, Wildlife Conservation and Global Warming, at the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, DC.
^{*****************************}Amy Vedder is senior vice president of the Wilderness Society in Washington, DC.
^{******************************}Michael S. Webster is program officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California.