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30 años de trabajo en miles de millas cuadradas.

La buena noticia es que la renovación de paisajes y regiones no es algo nuevo. Se ha demostrado con éxito y ya está en marcha en muchas partes del mundo. Miembros de nuestro equipo han dedicado décadas a diseñar, ejecutar y monitorizar iniciativas comunitarias de restauración y administración ecológica que abarcan millones de acres.

Entre los ejemplos bien documentados figuran Malpai Borderlands en el Suroeste estadounidense, el Blackfoot Challenge de Montana y los esfuerzos de recuperación de pesquerías en la costa de Maine, además de muchas otras iniciativas en todo el mundo. Estas experiencias demuestran que la renovación a escala de paisaje no es una mera aspiración, sino un enfoque probado capaz de generar beneficios ecológicos, económicos y comunitarios duraderos.

Libros y estudios
Malpai Borderlands

Malpai Borderlands

Sur de New Mexico

1,000,000 acres · 2 países · 4 estados · 8 condados · más de 30 años (en curso)

Uno de los proyectos ecológicos a escala de paisaje más intensamente estudiados, en un bioma y un contexto ecológico similares a los del piloto actual en NM. El talón de Aquiles del proyecto, la dependencia de fondos federales y de fundaciones que se desplomaron tras la crisis financiera de 2008, es exactamente lo que resuelve la arquitectura de la Facilidad de Transición.

Warner Glenn y Kelly Glenn, ganaderos; Richard Knight, Colorado State University. Curtin, C.G. (2015), libro revisado por pares que documenta el proyecto
Blackfoot Challenge

Blackfoot Challenge

Oeste de Montana

2,200,000 acres · Colaboración multicuenca · Varias décadas

Una pesquería de trucha y una cuenca de fama mundial, donde los altos valores de la tierra reflejan los beneficios económicos de la integridad ecológica a escala de paisaje. Este ejemplo también ilustra la importancia de la participación comunitaria y de una documentación cuidadosa para sostener las funciones culturales y ecológicas en las que se basan los activos naturales y económicos de la región.

Charles Curtin, diseño comparativo y monitorización. Curtin, C.G., libro revisado por pares que compara Malpai Borderlands y Blackfoot Challenge
Downeast Initiative

Downeast Initiative

Gulf of Maine, Downeast Maine

7,500 millas cuadradas · Pesquerías litorales de peces de fondo y langosta · Desde 2001 (en curso)

La Downeast Initiative trabaja desde 2001 para revivir las pesquerías de peces de fondo y langosta en una región costera de 7,500 millas cuadradas. Al igual que los paisajes del Oeste, las pesquerías litorales tienen cuencas, valles y montañas, cuyas cimas más altas emergen como islas. Se mantienen los mismos patrones de uso de los recursos, abundancia y administración colaborativa, lo que muestra que estos procesos son ubicuos en los ecosistemas húmedos y secos.

Charles Curtin, cofundador y asesor científico, con Jim Wilson de la University of Maine, los conservacionistas de pesquerías Robin Alden y Ted Ames, y el Reverendo Ted Hoskins

Libros

“My books explore the intersection of ecology and culture and have focused on how the world's messiness leads to uncertainty and unexpected outcomes…and what to do about it.”
Charles Curtin
The Science of Open Spaces, portada

The Science of Open Spaces

Island Press, 2015

This book focuses on landscape conservation as a metaphor for addressing large, complex challenges at the junction of ecology and culture.

“The book offers both inspiration and guidance. It shows that conservation - essentially, sustainability - can indeed be accomplished.”
Jerome Ravetz (University of Oxford)
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Complex Ecology: Foundational Perspectives on Dynamic Approaches to Ecology and Conservation, portada

Complex Ecology: Foundational Perspectives on Dynamic Approaches to Ecology and Conservation

Cambridge University Press, 2018

This book takes a deep dive into the foundations of complexity-based approaches to ecology and conservation, including input from more than 60 of the leading voices from across the globe.

“Complex Ecology provides an essential compass for scientists and conservationists to navigate the shifting ecological context of conservation action.”
Gary Tabor, Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Montana
Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis, portada

Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026

The point is to move beyond the resilience framing of societal challenges that largely sustain the status quo.

“Science and technology can identify environmental threats, but don’t solve them.”
David Western

Artículos e informes

Restoring Our Landscapes, Strengthening Our Communities: Practical, Community-Centered Approaches to Woody Biomass in New Mexico

NM Biomass Working Group

Charting a Pathway Toward Long-term Fire Recovery: Why Our Institutions Are Failing, and What to Do About It

Charles G. Curtin, Green Fire Times, January/February 2026

“The answer to the riddle of why we’ve not made more progress in post-fire recovery is that existing institutions and the systems they embody aren’t working because they’re not designed to work in the face of rapid, repeated and dramatic change.”

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Radical Ruralism: Regeneration on the Edge

Rosanna Vitello, The Place Bureau, Meander magazine, 2025

“Author, activist and scientist Charles Curtin is confronting a landscape increasingly defined by fire.”

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Examining the Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments on New Mexico Forests

Adam Atchley, Julia Oliveto, Nolan Jenko, Los Alamos National Laboratory

“Our simulations indicate that reducing surface fuels is the most effective strategy for lowering wildfire severity, spread rate, and intensity.”

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Quantification of the Thinning Impact on Carbon Balance and Fire Risks for Ponderosa Pine Forests in New Mexico

Chonggang Xu, Adam Atchley, Zachary Robbins, Julia Oliveto, Alex Jonko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2023

“A common practice in forest management is to thin forest in order to reduce the fire risks; however, because the trees that are thinned are typically small and of little economic values, they are generally pile burned.”

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Beyond Firesheds: Fireshed-Watershed-Foodshed, Reenvisioning Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change

Charles Curtin, edible New Mexico, Spring 2024

“The Pyrocene has arrived, where a warming and drying climate leads to repeated larger and hotter fires.”

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Biomass Energy in the Urban-Rural Interface, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

Charles Curtin, Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant Report, July 2024

“Creating carbon-negative markets to support landscape restoration and renewal is a crucial facet of wildfire mitigation and recovery.”

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Fire, Power and Privilege in the Pyrocene

Charles Curtin, op-ed, 2023

“The Southwest has passed a climatic threshold where recurrent wildfire is not just a possibility—it’s a near certainty.”

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The Sangre de Cristo Mountain Initiative: An Audacious Commonsense Proposal

Charles Curtin, Green Fire Times, November/December 2022

“We need more than short-term band-aid solutions—but also long-term strategic approaches that address causes and not just the symptoms.”

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New Mexico Wildfires: The Gift That Keeps Giving

Fear and Loathing Near Las Vegas (Part 2). Charles Curtin, Green Fire Times, November/December 2022

“The water came from miles upstream, and there was no way the flooding could have been predicted, based on local conditions.”

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Fear and Loathing Near Las Vegas

Personal Reflections on the Calf Canyon Fire (Part 1). Charles Curtin, Green Fire Times, September/October 2022

“It is Sunday, May 8th, just after dawn on the Cañoncito creek north of Mora, New Mexico.”

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Mora County Biomass Energy Feasibility Study

Sangre de Cristo Initiative, 2021

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