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FUNDING

The Heinz Center gratefully acknowledges the financial and in-kind support provided by the following public and private entities, without which this project would not be possible:

The Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, and Office of Naval Research (Grant Number N000014-97-1071).

The Chevron Corporation, John Deere & Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, the Electric Power Research Institute, the S.C. Johnson Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment.

DESIGN COMMITTEE

WILLIAM C. CLARK, CHAIR
Professor, JFK School of Government
Harvard University

TOM BANCROFT
Vice President, Ecology and Economics Research
The Wilderness Society

ROSINA BIERBAUM
Assistant Director for Environment
Office of Science & Technology Policy

CARROL BOLEN
Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

LAWRENCE CLARK (MAY 1999 TO PRESENT)
Deputy Chief, Science & Technology
U.S. Department of Agriculture

TERRY DAVIES
Director, Center for Risk Management
Resources for the Future

DAVID ERVIN
Director, Policy Studies Program
Henry A. Wallace Institute

TERRY GARCIA
Assistant Secretary for Oceans & Atmosphere
NOAA

SUZANNE IUDICELLO MARTLEY
Special Counsel for Fisheries
Center for Marine Conservation

DEBORAH JENSEN
Vice President, Conservation Science Division
The Nature Conservancy

ALAN LUCIER
Senior Vice President
National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.

MAURY MAUSBACH (JAN. 1998 TO MAY 1999)
Deputy Chief, Soil Survey & Resource Assessment
USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service

JERRY MELILLO
Co-Director, Ecosystem Center
Marine Biological Laboratory

MIKE NUSSMAN
Vice President
American Sportfishing Association

GORDON ORIANS
Professor Emeritus, Zoology Department
University of Washington

FRAN PIERCE
Professor, Crop & Soil Science Department
Michigan State University

LOU PITELKA
Director, Appalachian Laboratory
University of Maryland System, representing the Electric Power Research Institute

PAUL SABATIER
Department of Environmental Sciences & Policy
University of California, Davis

DON SCAVIA
Director, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
NOAA

MARK SCHAEFER
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science
U.S. Department of Interior

BUD WARD
Executive Director
Environmental Health Center

DOUGLAS WHEELER
(formerly) Secretary, Resources Agency of California
(currently) Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

CROPLANDS WORK GROUP

FRAN PIERCE, CHAIR
Professor, Crop & Soil Science Department
Michigan State University

JERI BERC
Resource Inventory Division
USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service

DANIEL DOOLEY
Dooley, Herr & Williams

GEORGE HALLBERG
The Cadmus Group

MAUREEN HINCKLE
(retired) Director, Agricultural Policy
National Audubon Society

RICHARD JOHNSON (DECEASED)
Manager, Agronomic Services
Deere & Co. Technical Center

JIM HRUBOVCAK
Economic Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture

EGIDE NIZEYIMANA
Environmental Resources Research Institute
Penn State University

GARY W. PETERSEN
Co-Director, Office for Remote Sensing of Earth Resources
Penn State University

DAVID S. SHRINER
(formerly) Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(currently) U.S. Forest Service

BOBBY STEWART
Director, Dryland Agriculture Institute
West Texas A&M University

FOREST WORK GROUP

ALAN LUCIER, CHAIR
Senior Vice President
National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.

TOM BANCROFT
Vice President, Ecology and Economics Research
The Wilderness Society

ARTHUR W. COOPER
Department of Forestry
North Carolina State University

DAVID DARR
Resource Valuation & Use Research
U.S. Forest Service

PETER FARNUM
Director, Timberlands Forestry Research
Weyerhaeuser Company

RICH GULDIN
Director of Science, Policy, Planning, Inventory & Information
U.S. Forest Service

DEBORAH JENSEN
Vice President, Conservation Science Division
The Nature Conservancy

ROBERT MANGOLD
National Manager, Forest Health Monitoring Program
U.S. Forest Service

HELGA VAN MIEGROET
Assistant Professor, Wildland Soils & Biogeochemistry
Utah State University

COASTS & OCEANS WORK GROUP

DON SCAVIA, CHAIR
Director, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
NOAA

BRIAN BAIRD
Ocean Program Manager
California Resources Agency

GIL BERGQUIST
Associate Director,
Florida Center for Public Management

DENISE BREITBURG
Academy of Natural Sciences

CARLOS FETTEROLF
National Sea Grant Review Panel

JOHN HOEY
(formerly) National Fisheries Institute
(currently) NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service

MARY HOPE KATSOUROS
The Heinz Center

LYNN KUTNER
The Nature Conservancy

DOUG LIPTON
Professor, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
University of Maryland

MIKE MAC
Science Advisor
Biological Resources Division, USGS

TOM MALONE
Director
Horn Point Environmental Laboratory

PATRICK O'BRIEN
Ecology Team Leader
Chevron Corporation

JACK SOBEL
Center for Marine Conservation

KEVIN SUMMERS
Gulf Ecology Division
Environmental Protection Agency

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

TOM JORLING, CHAIR
Vice President, Environmental Affairs
International Paper Company

WILLIAM CLARK
Professor, JFK School of Government
Harvard University

JOHN FLICKER
President
National Audubon Society

THE HONORABLE DAN GLICKMAN
Secretary of Agriculture

THEODORE HULLAR
Director, Cornell Center for the Environment
Cornell University

CHARLES JOHNSON
Chairman, President and CEO
Pioneer Hi-bred International

JOHN SAWHILL
President and CEO
The Nature Conservancy

THE HONORABLE JIM SAXTON
U.S. Representative from New Jersey


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This project is the result of countless hours of work by many collaborators and reviewers. The Heinz Center is grateful for their dedication--without their efforts this report would not exist. Many of the people we have acknowledged were critical in collecting data and preparing it for this report, and there are others who contributed behind the scenes. To all we have named here, and to those we may have missed, we thank you.

James Agee, University of Washington
Art Allen, USGS
Jeff Amthor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Margot Anderson, USDA
Susan S. Andrews, USDA
D. James Baker, NOAA
Dan Basta, NOAA
Carol Baumann, Center for Marine Conservation
Kerry Bolognese, NASULGC
Dan Botkin, George Mason University
Steve Brady, USDA Forest Service
Vince Breneman, USDA
Suzanne Bricker, NOAA
Juliette Brown, Gibson Creative
John Brown, Gibson Creative
Melissa Cahn, National Park Service
Kelton Clarke, Academy of Natural Sciences
Kathryn Clement, USGS
Mike Collopy, USGS
Barbara Conkling, USDA Forest Service
Renee Connor, Johnson Worldwide Controls
Ken Cordell, USDA Forest Service
Gladys Cotter, USGS
Ann Covalt, independent writer
Maurice Crawford, Academy of Natural Sciences
Eric Crecilius, Battelle Sequim Marine Laboratory
Tom Culliton, NOAA
Tom Dahl, USFWS
Paul Dayton, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Linda Deegan, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
Jennifer Dempsey, American Farmland Trust
Elena Deshler, USGS
Eric Dobson, NOAA
Jerry Dobson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Otto Doering, Purdue University
Debbie Drake, California Resources Agency
Paul Dresler, Dept. of the Interior
Sam Droege, USGS
Don Erman, University of California at Davis
Dan Farrow, NOAA
Denny Fenn, USGS
Chris Field, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Don Field, NOAA
Kurt Flather, USDA Forest Service
Doug Florian, NOAA
Nancy Foster, NOAA
Tom Franklin, The Wildlife Society
Warren Freas, USEPA
Todd Fritch, State of Massachusetts
Mark Fuller, USGS
Bob Gilliom, USGS
Tim Goodspeed, NOAA
Fred Grassle, Rutgers University
Roger Griffis, NOAA
Katherine Gross, Michigan State University
Ralph Grosse, American Farmland Trust
David Guinnup, USEPA
Melissa Hagan, Magpie Design
Steven Hamburg, Brown University
Alison Hammer, NOAA
Trudy Harlow, USGS
Miranda Harris, NOAA
Sue Haseltine, USGS
John Hayes, NOAA
Ralph Heimlich, USDA
John Heissenbuttel, American Forest & Paper Association
Gordon Hester, Electric Power Research Institute
Doug Hobbes, American Sportfishing Association
Carl Holguin, USDA Forest Service
Steve Holland, University of Florida
Larry Holmes, USDA
Tom Horton, The Baltimore Sun
Steven Howard, USGS
Bob Howarth, Cornell University
Malcolm Hunter, University of Maine
Rudolph B. Husar, Washington University
Richard Huzil, USDA
Tom Iivari, USDA
Peter James Ince,
Dick Jachowski, USGS
Dan James, USGS
Doug Johnson, USGS
Bruce Jones, USEPA
Kate Kase, USGS
Doug Karlen, USDA
Bob Kellogg, USDA
Matt Kendall, NOAA
Lowell Kepics, California Resources Agency
Syble Kincannon, USDA Forest Service
Kristen Krapf, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation
Tom LaPointe, NOAA
Doug Lea, independent writer
Jeff Lewis, Heinz Family Endowments
Lowell Lewis, INTECS International
Rick Linthurst, USEPA
Bob Loomis, University of California at Davis
David Lott, NOAA
Tom Lovejoy, The World Bank/Smithsonian Institution
Tom Loveland, USGS
Richard Lowrance, USDA
Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University
Nadine Lynn, Ecological Society of America
James MacMahon, Utah State University
Gary Magnuson, NOAA
Vishwanie Maharaj, American Sportfishing Association
Pamela Matson, Stanford University
Kathleen Maybury, The Nature Conservancy
Nancy Maynard, NASA
Chuck McClain, NASA
William McComb, University of Massachusetts
Andrew McElwaine, Heinz Family Endowments
Dave McNeal, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Will McWilliams, USDA Forest Service
Judy Meyer, University of Georgia
Tim Miller, USGS
Steve Murray, California State University at Fullerton
Robert Naiman, University of Washington
David "Moe" Nelson, NOAA
Greg Neuschafer, Office of Naval Research
Elliott Norse, Marine Conservation Biology Institute
Reed Noss, Conservation Biology Institute
Lisa H. Nowell, USGS
Tom O'Connor, NOAA
Robert O'Neill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Paul Orlando, NOAA
Laura Ost, independent editor
Nipa Parikh, NOAA
Tom Parris, Harvard University Library
Robert Peet, University of North Carolina
Audrey Pritchard, The Nature Conservancy
Don Pryor, Office of Science & Technology Policy
Phil Raup, University of Minnesota
Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden
John Rayfield, Office of Rep. Jim Saxton
Bill Reilly, Aqua International Partners
Davida Remer, NOAA
Kurt Riitters, US Geological Survey
Mike Rodemeyer, Office of Science & Technology Policy
Keith Roskoske, Census Bureau
Pam Rubin, NOAA
Mike Ruggiero, USGS
Janet Ruth, USGS
Carl Safina, National Audubon Society
John Sauer, USGS
Steve Shafer, USDA
Brad Smith, USDA Forest Service
Janine Stenback, California Resources Agency
Brent Stinson, USDA
John Stoddard, USEPA
Jeff Stoner, USGS
Jim Strittholt, Conservation Biology Institute
David Struhs, State of Massachusetts
Turner Sutton, North Carolina State University
Larry Swanson, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dave Terry, State of Massachusetts
Pat Tester, NOAA
John Paul Tolson, NOAA
Ken Turgeon, Mineral Management Service
John Vrana, USDA
Gibby Waitzkin, Gibson Creative
Diana Wall, Colorado State University
Robert Ward, Colorado State University
Ed Whitelaw, ECO Northwest
Donna Wieting, NOAA
Pace Wilber, NOAA
Bill Wilen, USFWS
Andrea Yank, Natural Resources Council of America
Denise Yver, NOAA
Zhiliang Zhu, Raytheon Systems/USGS
Heidi Zuratt, Gibson Creative

The Heinz Center and all project collaborators wish to recognize the important contributions of the late Richard Johnson. His knowledge and sense of humor will be sorely missed.

The project team wishes to thank the entire staff of The Heinz Center for their patience, support, and assistance throughout this project. We especially thank Heather Blough, Marico Sayoc, Sarah Baish, and Sheila David, all of whom contributed significantly to the project.

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