Reed Noss,^1,* Greg Aplet,² Patrick Comer,³ Carolyn Enquist,⁴ Jerry Franklin,⁵ John Riley,⁶ Hugh Safford<sup>7

1</sup>Florida Institute for Conservation Science, 112 Half Moon Trail, Melrose, FL 32666, USA
²The Wilderness Society, 1660 Wynkoop Street, Suite 1150, Denver, CO 80202, USA
³NatureServe, 1300 Table Mesa Drive, Suite 205, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
⁴U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, 1064 Lowell Street, Suite N427, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
⁵College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA (emeritus)
⁶Science Advisor Emeritus, Nature Conservancy of Canada, 874523 5th Line EHS, Mono, ON L9W 6A8, Canada
⁷Vibrant Planet, Incline Village, NV 86451; Department of Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

^*Corresponding author: reedfnoss@gmail.com