Confronting environmental challenges with an alliance of modern conservation practitioners and working to support students, alumni, and friends of the Field Naturalist & Ecological Planning Program.

2024 Annual FNEP Gathering

Meach Cove Farms (image by Jim Westphalen) FNEP Annual GatheringSaturday May 11 – Sunday 12 | Shelburne Register Here 🌿 Alumni and Student Potluck | May 11, 6 PMThe Coach Barn @ Shelburne FarmsA casual gathering in celebration of cohort AM’s graduation! Catch up with alumni and meet our students on this 40th anniversary of… Continue reading 2024 Annual FNEP Gathering

2024 Virtual Naturalist Hangouts

Join FNEP alumni from around the country to hear stories of their work protecting habitat corridors for wide-ranging mammals, tracking timber poachers throughout the Pacific Northwest, restoring whole ecosystems, and attentively tending seedlings of endangered conifers.

The 2022 FNEP Annual Symposium

Theme: Disturbance & RenewalMemorial Day Weekend | May 28th – 30thEagle Hill Institute | Steuben, Maine PRESENTATION RECORDINGS NOW AVAILABLE. Please see links in abstracts below. Disturbance is around us and in us. It is an inevitable process in natural systems. It can uproot our personal and professional lives. It can trigger radical or imperceptible… Continue reading The 2022 FNEP Annual Symposium