Learning from Each Other Within the LCC Family
This great opportunity benefitted both Jean and the LCC and helped expand what it means to be part of the National LCC Network. Jean remarked how this learning opportunity greatly expanded in her mind the conceptual framework of what constitutes the role of an LCC.
Coming from the lower 48 to experience the vast Arctic wilderness was a dramatic landscape challenge given its vast and remote expanse, socio-cultural values of subsistence livelihoods of native communities, and expanding conservation work with land-managers and industry to design for nature, economic growth, and cultural heritage. As one of the original LCC Coordinators, Jean was able to share with the Dr. Wendy Loya and Josh Bradley of the Arctic LCC her experiences in building a collaborative partnership, identifying strategic programmatic and research direction, and sharing current efforts to promote the LCCs science delivery as well as supporting conservation networks, communication, and training in building capacity across the LCC geography. Based in the Anchorage FWS Headquarters, Jean was also able to work closely with the other Alaska LCC Coordinators and staff of the Western Alaska, Northwest Boreal, and Aleutian Bering Sea Island LCCs.
