A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Southeastern

Project Name:: Restoring Shaded Coffee Plantations in Puerto Rico
Location:: Southeastern: Puerto Rico
Summary:: Project provides incentives and assistance to coffee growers to return “sun” coffee plantations to shade, improving environment and wildlife habitat.
Website:: www.fws.gov/caribbean-ecoteam/shade_coffee_FS.pdf
Contact:: Silmarie Padron
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
787-851-7297
silmarie_padron@fws.gov

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Platte River Habitat Partnership
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska
Summary:: The Partnership attempts to balance the economic needs of landowners and the ecological needs of wildlife and native grasslands.
Website:: www.PlatteHabitat.org
Contact:: Timothy Tunnell
Grasslands Manager
The Nature Conservancy
308-583-2294
ttunnell@tnc.org

Project Name:: Great Plains Geographic Information Systems Partnership
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, South-Central/South-West: Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Summary:: Project facilitates collaboration, communication and reduces redundancy in GIS data development for bird habitat assessment and conservation.
Contact:: Karin Callahan
GIS Team Leader
Playa Lakes Joint Venture
(308) 382-6468 ex 38
karin.callahan@pljv.org

Project Name:: Joliet Army Ammunition Plant
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois
Summary:: Private, county, state, and federal entities implement the Joliet Arsenal Citizens Planning Commission’s balanced redevelopment plan for the closed 23,000-acre arsenal.
Website:: aec.army.mil/usaec/cleanup/aic-il-02.html
Contact:: Jerry Heinrich

Sierra Club
815-476-6171
heinrich79@cs.com

Project Name:: Northern Michigan Conservation and Wildlife Alliance
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan
Summary:: To bring together all hands-on conservation organizations and to introduce them to the public.
Contact:: Doug Truax
Chair
Northern Michigan Wildlife and Conservation Alliance
231-369-2325
dwtruax@acegroup.cc

Project Name:: Wildlife Forever – Minnesota Twins Bass Fishing Classic
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
Summary:: The Wildlife Forever - Minnesota Twins Bass Fishing Classic raises funds for natural resource conservation and youth education projects while promoting the conservation of Twin Cities Metro lakes.
Website:: www.wildlifeforever.org
Contact:: Pete Wuebker
Director of Marketing
Wildlife Forever
763-253-0222
pwuebker@wildlifeforever.org

Project Name:: Asian Long-horned Beetle Eradication
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York, New Jersey
Summary:: A coordinated effort among agencies and citizens to control the spread of the Asian Long-horned Beetle and restore infested areas with tree plantings.
Website:: www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/alb/index.shtm and www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/alb
Contact:: Joseph McCarthy
Senior City Forester, Chicago
City of Chicago—Bureau of Forestry
312-747-2098
jmccarthy@cityofchicago.org

Project Name:: St. Mary's River Bird Migration Corridor Project
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan
Summary:: Little Traverse Conservancy received a $1 million grant from the North American Wetland Conservation Act program to protect 1,418 acres and 4 shore miles in the St. Mary's River/Lake Huron watershed.
Website:: www.landtrust.org
Contact:: Anne Fleming
Communications
Little Traverse Conservancy
231-347-0991
afleming@racc2000.com

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Uncompahgre Plateau Project
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: “UP” is a collaborative agency/community-based effort to restore the wildlife, native plants and natural ecological functions of the Uncompahgre Plateau.
Website:: www.upproject.org
Contact:: Mary Chapman
Director
Public Lands Partnership
970-874-8806
mmchapman@montrose.net

Project Name:: White Mountain Stewardship Project
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: A 10-year stewardship contract was awarded to thin 150,000 acres of forest to protect communities from wildfire and stimulate wood industry.
Website:: www.fs.fed.us/r3/asnf
Contact:: Steve Campbell
Navajo County Director
University of Arizona, Cooperative Extension
928-524-6271
Campbell@ag.arizona.edu

Far West

Project Name:: Bighorn Sheep Restoration in North America
Location:: Far West: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington
Summary:: Through research, habitat enhancements, and translocations, bighorn sheep have been restored to much of their native range. Their numbers have been increased from below 50,000 to over 200,000.
Website:: www.fnaws.org
Contact:: Raymond Lee
President
Foundation for North American Wild Sheep (FNAWS)
(307) 527-6261
rlee@fnaws.org

Project Name:: Restoring Farmland in Nevada
Location:: Far West: Nevada
Summary:: Conservation partners are working to find ways, both vegetative and non-vegetative, to permanently protect farmland soils from wind erosion after irrigation water is removed.
Website:: www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov
Contact:: Rod Dahl
Resource Conservationist
USDA NRCS
(775) 857-8500 x 146
rod.dahl@nv.usda.gov

Project Name:: Applegate Partnership
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: Most of the Applegate Partnership's focus for projects is forest restoration while also creating opportunities for local employment.
Website:: www.mind.net/app/aphandou.htm;
Contact:: Jack Shipley

North Applegate Watershed Protection Association
541 846-6917

Project Name:: Hanford Reach Fall Chinook Protection Program
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: Cooperative agreement to control river flows for fall Chinook salmon to maximize spawning and rearing conditions in mid-Columbia River, while maintaining flexibility of hydroelectric dam operators.
Website:: www.gcpud.org/stewardship.htm
Contact:: Linda Jones

Grant County Public Utility District
509-754-5037
ljones1@gcpud.org

Project Name:: Kendall Jackson Wine Estates, Ltd. (KJWE)
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: A cooperative agreement that centers on the establishment and long-term management of vineyard lands in a manner that will minimize any adverse affects on the California Tiger Salamander.
Contact:: Steve Henry
Assistant Field Supervisor Ventura Office
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
805-644-1766 x307
Steve_Henry@fws.gov

Project Name:: Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture
Location:: Far West: Idaho, Southeastern: Mississippi
Summary:: Bird conservation through multi-scale habitat objectives, tracking and monitoring, research, and restoration, enhancement or protection of over 1 million acres of habitat.
Contact:: Charles Baxter
Joint Venture Coordinator
US Fish and Wildlife Service
601-629-6600
charles_baxter@fws.gov

Project Name:: Protecting the San Mateo Watershed
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy is a 1171-acre wildlife reserve providing education and stewardship with the purpose of creating awareness of the rich diversity of the San Mateo Watershed.
Website:: www.theconservancy.org
Contact:: Laura Cohen
Executive Director
The Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy
949-489-9778
rmvlc@sbcglobal.net

Project Name:: Seven Basins Fire Planning Project
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: The Seven Basins group works to provide community awareness of wildfire issues, fire mitigation, and reduction of hazardous fuels within local communities.
Contact:: Leanne Mruzik
Fuels Management Specialist
Bureau of Land Management, Medford District
541-618-2419
lmruzik@or.blm.gov

Project Name:: Square Lake Preserve
Location:: Far West: Idaho
Summary:: Surrounded by public land, the Square Lake Preserve protects critical habitat for greater sage grouse, a declining species in the West, and other sagebrush steppe obligates.
Website:: www.woodriverlandtrust.org/squarelake.html
Contact:: Allison Kennedy
Planning Coordinator
Wood River Land Trust
(208) 788-3947
akennedy@woodriverlandtrust.org

National

Project Name:: Fish and Wildlife Service Fish Passage Program
Location:: National
Summary:: The Fish Passage Program works with public and private partners nationwide to restore fish habitat by removing local barriers to natural water flows.
Website:: www.fws.gov/fisheries/FWSMA/fishpassage/
Contact:: Steven Moyer
Vice President Government Affairs & Volunteer Operations
Trout Unlimited
703-284-9406
smoyer@tu.org

Current Conservation Programs