Few speakers on environmental issues have addressed as diverse a range of organizations as Dan Dagget.

Since the publication in 1995 of his Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, Beyond The Rangeland Conflict, Toward a West That Works, Dagget has taken his message—that working toward shared goals is the best way to solve environmental problems—to: the 2006 Sun Valley Sustainability Conference, the State of the Rocky Mountain West, 2006, the First National Conference on Grazing Lands (keynote speaker), Bioneers (several times), the Quivira Coalition (several times), PERC, Sierra Nevada Deep Ecology Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, EarthSave, the Cattlemen’s Associations of several states, the Thatcher School at Ojai, California, and  the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University. Recently, he was the keynote speaker at the 2007 combined conference of the California Native Grasslands Association and Society for Range Management. Dagget is the keynote speaker at the 2008 National Cowboy Poets Gathering in Elko, Nevada

Dan Dagget’s new book, Gardeners of Eden, Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature, has been called “the most important environmental manifesto since Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic.” In Gardeners Dagget reveals new scientific discoveries that show our species has played, and in some cases continues to play, as vital a role in sustaining many of the Earth’s ecosystems as species we think of as Nature’s keystones. In other words, says Dagget, in some cases, humans are as important to Nature as wolves, beavers, and honeybees. After chronicling a collection of eye-opening examples of contemporary managers playing roles as important as the Gardeners of ancient Edens such as the Amazon and the Bison Plains of North America, Dagget argues that these examples show the way to a new environmentalism that enables us to heal Nature by re-engaging humans in it rather than removing us from it.

Dan’s presentations are dynamic, entertaining, and animated, with presumption-busting photographs, paradigm-shifting data, and out-of-the box insights that regularly get responses like, “I never thought of that before.”

Topics for Dan's presentations include:

Time For a New Environmentalism:
* From Eco Radical to Conservative Environmentalist—Same Values, Different Approach
* Creating Results Not Regulations—An Environmentalism Even Conservatives Can Love

Environmental Law:
* Equal Protection Under Environmental Law—Holding Preservation as Accountable as Other Management Practices
Ecology:
* Humans—As Important to Nature as Wolves, Whales, and Whippoorwills
* Restoring Health and Function to Damaged Land, Even Very Damaged Land
* If We Could Work With the Animals—Collaborating with Animals to Heal the Land and Sustain It as Healthy

Solving Environmental Problems Collaboratively:
* Don't Tell Me What To Do, Tell Me What You Want
* Better Than Victory, More Powerful Than Conflict
* Collaboration Has Nothing To Do With Compromise

Economy:
* Ranching for Environmental Value and Marketing the Results
* Raising and Marketing Open Space Beef, Carbon Offset Beef, Endangered Species Beef…

Consulting:     
* What's Possible On Your Land, and Who Can Help You Achieve It
* Your Ranch is one of the Most beautiful Places on Earth, Why Not Make It One of the Healthiest?