I collaborated regularly with Jim on WH issues during his time at IUCN. After an overflight to the Caribbean borderlands of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Jim and I came up with what Jim T called a "three-beer idea on the back of a napkin" regarding expanding the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor initiative I was working on for WCS, to a bold linked hemispheric approach--now widely embraced, through multinational trail and corridor initiatives. Jim was truly a pioneer in "big idea" conservation.