Hosted by the CSU Salazar Center for North American Conservation

This year, the Salazar Center’s annual symposium will explore challenges and opportunities related to the United States’ first-ever national conservation goal, America the Beautiful, also known as 30×30. This event will convene U.S. conservation leadership to explore what it means to protect 30 percent of critical lands and waters in the United States by the year 2030, with benefits for both climate resilience and human well-being.

The symposium will also serve as the goalpost event for a series of four initiatives along the U.S.-Canada border, bringing together policy leaders, practitioners, and researchers working on binational collaboration, and highlighting lessons learned from Canada’s Pathway to Target One—a similarly ambitious goal to 30×30, in place since 2016. Look for announcements of keynote speakers, panels, and other agenda details in the coming weeks!

The Thriving Cities Challenge final pitch fest will also take place at the symposium.

Please note: In order to ensure the health and safety of all participants, the Center has not yet determined whether this event will be held virtually, in person, or in a hybrid format. Stay tuned for details.