Chris Hilke

Complex Challenges Require Multi-Faceted Solutions

Where we started… In 1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for federal, state, and local conservation and advocacy organizations across the United States to convene to address America’s degrading natural … Read more

Aerial photo of floodwaters in a residential area.

Where the Water Moves Us: Evaluating Community-Driven Relocation

With our nation’s coastal communities increasingly impacted by more frequent and sustained flood events, coastal storms, and other climate-accelerated impacts, many communities are having to confront the future viability of … Read more

A group of people place clumps of vegetation into sand dunes.

Putting Nature to Work for Coastal Communities

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates that coastal watersheds across the lower 48 states “lose 80,000 acres of coastal wetlands each year to development, drainage, erosion, subsidence and … Read more