Workshop B. Back to the Future: Necessary Evolution of the Land Trust Movement Back to Traditional Community Conservation

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1 Workshop B Back to the Future: Necessary Evolution of the Land Trust Movement Back to Traditional Community Conservation Introduction: Presenters Angela Anderson, Esq., Kauai Island Director, Hawaiian Islands Land Trust Edwin Bernbaum, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, The Mountain Institute, and Co Chair IUCN group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas (CSVPA) Kawika Burgess, Chief Executive Officer, Hawaiian Islands Land Trust Edward Ted Sortwell Clement, Jr., Esq., Executive Director, Save Mount Diablo, and general member IUCN group on CSVPA Scott Fisher, Ph.D., Associate Executive Director, Hawaiian Islands Land Trust Ramona (Nosapocket) Peters, Bear Clan member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Founder Native Land Conservancy 1

2 Community Conservation is a critical long term sustainability strategy that builds meaningful connections and relationships between a land trust, the community in which the land trust works, and nature. Three Leaning Objectives 1. Understand the necessary evolution of the land trust movement back to traditional community conservation. 2. More deeply explore community conservation by examining various Earth centered cultures and traditions and their special relationships with nature. 3. Provide participants with practical ways land trusts can incorporate ideas and practices from traditional community conservation so as to develop more meaningful relationships with their communities and nature. 2

3 First Evolutionary Phase of Land Trust Movement Largely Focused on Land Acquisition Conservation Acquisitions Locally

4 2003 The Washington Post Series Criticizing The Nature Conservancy, Big Green Nonprofit Land Bank Amasses Billions By David B. Ottaway and Joe Stephens Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, May 4, 2003 The Arlington based Nature Conservancy has blossomed into the world's richest environmental group, amassing $3 billion in assets by pledging to save precious places. Known for its advertisements decorated with forests, streams and the soothing voice of actor Paul Newman, the 52 year old charity preserves millions of acres across the nation. Yet the Conservancy has logged forests, engineered a $64 million deal paving the way for opulent houses on fragile grasslands and drilled for natural gas under the last breeding ground of an endangered bird species. The nonprofit Conservancy has traveled far beyond its humble beginnings, when it relied on small donors and acquired a few small plots at a time. Its governing board and advisory council now include executives and directors from one or more oil companies, chemical producers, auto manufacturers, mining concerns, logging operations and coal burning electric utilities 2006 Land Trust Accreditation Commission Incorporated, Increased focus on Stewardship and Organizational Systems Second Evolutionary Phase of Land Trust Movement 4

5 2005 Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv Need for Next Evolutionary Phase of Land Trust Movement Next Evolutionary Phase of the Land Trust Movement must include Land Trusts putting greater emphasis on providing more people the ability to directly and deeply connect with Nature so that Transformational Experiences occur whereby regular people can become great lovers, and thus strong Stewards, of the Earth. 5

6 Sacred Spaces and Places Presentation and Photographs By Edwin Bernbaum Edwin Bernbaum 2006 Sacred Natural Sites 6

7 Mountains evoke an experience of something of deeper significance that gives meaning to people s lives Edwin Bernbaum 2016 People experience that something of deeper signficance through the views they have of mountains 7

8 Center Edwin Bernbaum

9 Edwin Bernbaum 2016 Deity or Abode of Deity 9

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11 Temple or Place of Worship Edwin Bernbaum

12 Ancestors and Identity 12

13 Source 13

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15 Inspiration, Revelation, Transformation and Renewal 15

16 The din of the dusty world and the confines of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors: while, on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find. -GuoXi Edwin Bernbaum 2016 Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir 16

17 The Great Smoky Mountains are a sanctuary for the Cherokee people. We have always believed the mountains and streams provide all that we need for survival. We hold these mountains sacred, believing that the Cherokees were chosen to take care of the mountains as the mountains take care of us. Jerry Wolfe, Cherokee Elder Hawaiian Perspective 17

18 JM3 Hawaiian Perspective Hawaiian Perspective 18

19 Slide 35 JM3 Orinigal picture of Kalo was not a high enough resolution. Pulled this one from internet Joanne McCluhan, 7/14/2017

20 Hawaiian Perspective Hawaiian Perspective 19

21 Questions, Answers, and Concluding Remarks 20