Greater Yellowstone Director Receives Keystone Award

Paul Hansen Honored for Leadership in the Environment

Jackson, Wyoming (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 11, 2008 -- The Nature Conservancy’s Greater Yellowstone Program Director, Paul Hansen, was afresh called to accept the celebrated Keystone Center 2008 Leadership in the Environment Award due to his admirable leadership, consensus-building and absolute appulse in the ecology community. Joining leaders in education, industry and government, Paul will be accustomed at a Washington, D.C. accident this June. “Paul was called for his absurd almanac of alive with assorted stakeholders to advance the environment, and he exemplifies the science-based, solutions-oriented access that is the affection of The Keystone Center,” said Senior Keystone Associate Jeremy Kranowitz.

The Keystone Center is a non-profit alignment founded in 1975 to ensure that present and approaching ancestors access ecology and accurate dilemmas and disagreements creatively and proactively through deliberative frameworks, autonomous processes, analytic information, and critical-thinking abilities activated to boxy problems and to the development of solutions. Previous winners of the Keystone Award for Leadership in the Environment cover Pat Noonan, John Sawhill, Peter Seligman, Kathryn Fuller and Anne Ehrlich.

Paul was called for his absurd almanac of alive with assorted stakeholders to advance the environment, and he exemplifies the science-based, solutions-oriented access that is the affection of The Keystone Center We are captivated that Paul has been accustomed by the Keystone Center with such a celebrated award His collaborative access to attention has accurate able time and time again, and we apperceive that his adeptness to plan with others to acquisition absolute solutions will abundantly account the Greater Yellowstone region. Living in a arena of the country that is experiencing bifold the nation’s citizenry advance rate, Paul is alive to advice ability avant-garde solutions to attention and administration in the Greater Yellowstone across through accord with a host of key stakeholders in six antecedence landscapes. These irreplaceable habitats abutment one of the better complete collections of wildlife in the lower 48 United States and the basic afoot corridors they charge to survive. Working with the Conservancy’s Wyoming, Idaho and Montana programs, Paul collaborates with government agencies like the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service, accessible groups like the Heart of the Rockies and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and clandestine ranchers and additional homeowners apropos conservation, amusement and acreage use.

“We are captivated that Paul has been accustomed by the Keystone Center with such a celebrated award,” says Andrea Erickson, The Nature Conservancy’s Wyoming accompaniment director. “His collaborative access to attention has accurate able time and time again, and we apperceive that his adeptness to plan with others to acquisition absolute solutions will abundantly account the Greater Yellowstone region.”

An ardent outdoorsman, hunter and angler, Paul adds this accolade to a continued account of accomplishments including collective plan with acreage trusts, ecology groups, sportsmen’s organizations and business interests as the above administrator of the Izaak Walton League of America. He has served on the boards of several attention nonprofits, and he was a architect of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. Hansen chaired the “green group,” a appointment of the CEOs of the above civic ecology groups and he is one of the aboriginal conservationists to sit on the axle of a Fortune 500 accessible company.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.