The Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Open Space looks at climate change through the lens of land conservation. Our planet’s atmosphere is now telling us that we have a very serious problem on our hands. Gasoline prices bring the problem closer to home, but it is all part of the complex issue of climate change—of personal and global carbon footprints, of energy source and use, of rapidly changing land-use patterns—that is demanding our full attention.

Climate change doesn’t radically change the work that OSI has been doing for decades, but it makes it more relevant and pressing. Knowing that the climate change phenomenon has raised the stakes higher than ever, we at OSI will keep doing what we do best: conserving land and habitat, forests and farms, and reconnecting our culture with the land.