Results/Conclusions: Here I will report on three themes. First, I present results from a series of metrics aimed at measuring change in the use and interest in natural history within the United States. Virtually all of these metrics show a declining use of natural history. I will then make an argument for natural history as a natural bridge between the arts and sciences, as well as between research and education, public policy and personal practice. I will discuss our efforts to form a network that supports these and other links and provide a brief introduction to the workshops themselves. Finally, I will describe some case studies that demonstrate the economic, health, and security related costs of managing the non-human world without sufficient natural history, the benefits of incorporating sufficient natural history into management, and the prices we have paid when we have ignored the natural history we already know. These case studies range from current problems - successes and failures in predicting the impacts of climate change on pest pressure and disease transmission to well studied examples in recent history, including the economic impact of the cod fishery collapse, and the shift from DDT and broad-spectrum pesticides to integrated pest management (IPM).