NCLI

National Conservation Leadership Institute

Conceived at a meeting among B&C members in 2003, NCLI has been guided by a single question: “What will it take to prepare our future leaders?” The answer has consistently remained linked with providing a truly unique curriculum with an emphasis on participant diversity, viewing leadership through a multifaceted lens, and a willingness to embrace self-organization as a means of tackling adaptive challenges.

Institute Aims to Ensure Conservation Legacy

It’s the West Point of conservation leadership, an academy built on a foundation of Harvard University academics and Boone and Crockett Club practicality.

Now in its fourth year, the National Conservation Leadership Institute (NCLI) in Washington D.C. offers unique advanced-training opportunities for gifted professionals envisioning and shaping the future of America’s outdoors. More than 100 selectees have attended so far, representing conservation agencies and organizations nationwide.

Safeguarding our Legacy

What’s the scariest thing imaginable for those of us impassioned about wildlife and hunting and the outdoors? For many, it’s the idea that our natural resource legacy will not be left in safe hands.

Sportsmen and wildlife professionals recognize that we are in a new era — a time in which the organizational guardians of our natural resource legacy find themselves facing unprecedented challenges in a rapidly changing landscape. These challenges are exacerbated by the immense leadership void created from vast numbers of retiring baby boomers.