Managing public lands means retaining the health, productivity, and resiliency of ecosystems while accommodating a variety of human uses. Acquiring additional lands integrates information on context, connectivity, condition, and value. Dr. Crist has worked extensively with public land management agencies to improve methods and tools for assessing conditions, determining the need for change, and enabling the efficient development of good options for management and long term adaptive management. For example, Dr. Crist has worked for many years with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from ecoregional to site scales including leading four Rapid Ecoregional Assessments and developing concepts and strategies for streamlining processes to get quickly from data to defensible decisions.