Stitching The West Back Together: Conservation Of Working LandscapesNews headlines would have us believe that conservationists are locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranchers, and forest workers are bucking preconceptions to establish common ground. As they join together to protect wide open spaces, diverse habitats, and working landscapes upon which people, plants, and animals depend, a new