A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Conserving Maryland’s Threatened Bog Turtle
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
Summary:: The Partnership is working with private farmers and landowners to help recover the threatened bog turtle.
Website:: www.bogturtles.org
Contact:: Tim Male
Senior Ecologist
Environmental Defense
2023873500
tmale@ed.org

Project Name:: Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia, Southeastern: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee
Summary:: Eighty year-old public/private partnership manages the 2,175 mile-long Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia.
Website:: www.appalachiantrail.org
Contact:: Dave Startzell
Executive Director
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
304-535-6331 x 116
dstartzell@appalachiantrail.org

Project Name:: Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Partnership
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire
Summary:: In northern New Hampshire 171,000 acres of forestland were purchased to enhance recreational opportunities and benefit the local economy through sustainable forestry.
Website:: www.tpl.org
Contact:: Tom Sadler
Director of Program Development
Trust for Public Land
202-543-7552
tom.sadler@tpl.org

Project Name:: People, land and streams of the Upper Thornton River Watershed
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia
Summary:: Local volunteers, land owners work with NRCS, Nat'l Park Service, Virginia agencies to preserve & protect headwaters streams of the Chesapeake Bay Basin.
Website:: www.rappflow.org
Contact:: Beverly Hunter
Coordinator
RappFLOW: Rappahannock Friends & Lovers of Our Watershed
540 937-4038
mail@rappflow.org

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Restoration at Kankakee Sands
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana
Summary:: Restoration of both hydrology and native plants on fragments of farmland will add to a mosaic of stream, wetland, prairie and savanna.
Website:: nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/preserves/art2375.html
Contact:: Gene Fleming
Chief, Environmental Formulation and Analysis Section, Planning Branch
US Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District
(312) 846-5585
Eugene.J.Fleming@usace.army.mil

Project Name:: Confluence: A Conservation, Heritage & Recreation Corridor
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri
Summary:: Reconnecting people to region’s Great Rivers through a system of multi-use trails, recreation facilities, historic sites, visitor education centers, public art & interpretation.
Website:: www.confluencegreenway.org
Contact:: Laura Cohen
Project Director
Confluence Greenway
314-436-1324 ext 108
lauracohen@trailnet.org

Project Name:: Creating, Protecting, and Restoring Kansas Wetlands and Streams
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas
Summary:: Partnership is a non-governmental, non-political, locally-driven group that implements sound plans to address Kansas wetland, stream, and riparian area water quality and habitat concerns.
Website:: www.kaws.org/
Contact:: Tim Christian
State Coordinator
The Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams, Inc. (KAWS)
620-241-3636
tchristian@kaws.org

Project Name:: Pleasure Valley Conservancy
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin
Summary:: The restoration and preservation of privately-owned 226 acre parcel containing prairie, oak savanna, woodlands, and wetlands, through conservation easement with The Prairie Enthusiasts.
Website:: www.theprairieenthusiasts.org/
Contact:: Ken Wade
owner
The Prairie Enthusiasts
608-767-3111
www.theprairieenthusiasts.com

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Rio Grande Basin Initiative
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico, Texas
Summary:: The Rio Grande Basin is a highly productive agricultural area, with irrigated agriculture claiming more than 85 percent of its water.
Website:: riogrande.tamu.edu
Contact:: Dr. B.L. Harris
Project Director, Associate Director
Texas Water Resources Institute
979-845-1851
bl-harris@tamu.edu

Project Name:: Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: The Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership is a dynamic partnership of federal, state and local governments, land-management agencies, private landowners, conservation organizations and others.
Website:: www.frftp.org
Contact:: David Hessel
Coordinator, FRFTP
Colorado State Forest Service
303.635.1597
dhessel@lamar.colostate.edu

Project Name:: Bayou Bartholomew Alliance
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas
Summary:: The Alliance is introducing a market-based environmental assets program to support improving stream ecosystem quality.
Website:: www.arkansas.gov/bba
Contact:: Ronnie Ulmer

The Nature Conservancy
318-412-0472
rulmer@tnc.org

Far West

Project Name:: Saving Willamette Valley Species with CPR
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: The Cross Program Recovery Initiative (CPR) Initiative focuses on 11 listed and unlisted species where significant recovery is achievable over the next five years.
Contact:: Vicki Finn
Fisheries Restoration and Recovery Team Leader
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(503) 872-2763
vicki_finn@fws.gov

Project Name:: Willapa Bay Cooperative Restoration Effort
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: Project partners are cooperatively managing forests across ownership boundaries to maintain the rich biological legacies remaining within this area of southwest Washington.
Website:: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/washington/preserves/art12965.html
Contact:: Tom Kollasch
Ellsworth Creek Forest Manager
The Nature Conservancy of Washington
(503) 325-3896
tkollasch@tnc.org

Project Name:: Palos Verde Blue Butterfly Recovery Program
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The Defense Support Center is working with partners, on its lands, to enhance the only known population of Palos Verdes blue butterflies, and to restore it elsewhere.
Contact:: Mr. Dan Ryan
Stewardship Director
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
310-541-7613 x 203
dryan@pvplc.org

Project Name:: Endangered Species Conservation Partnership
Location:: Far West: Hawaii
Summary:: Marine Corps links training maneuvers to conservation by using amphibious assault vehicles to control invasive plant species to help restore the Hawaiian stilt.
Website:: www.fws.gov/endangered/pubs/marines.html
Contact:: Mr. Jeff Mikulina
Director
Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter
808-538-6616
mikulina@lava.net

Project Name:: Grassland Ecological Area Enhancement and Restoration Project
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The Grassland Ecological Area Enhancement and Restoration Project enhanced and restored wetlands and associated habitats in the Grasslands Ecological Area in the heart of the Central Valley.
Contact:: Chris Hildebrandt
Regional Biologist
Ducks Unlimited
209-826-5274
childebrandt@ducks.org

Project Name:: Codornices Creek and Ohlone Greenway
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Working with Cities of Albany and Berkeley, Friends of Five Creeks, an all-volunteer group, restored native vegetation and trout habitat and built an observation railing.
Website:: www.fivecreeks.org
Contact:: Susan Schwartz
president
Friends of Five Creeks
510-848-9358
f5creeks@aol.com

Project Name:: Gifford Pinchot Collaborative Working Group
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: The group promotes policies and projects that create local jobs and benefit watershed health within the Cispus Adaptive Management Area and surrounding parts of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Website:: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/giffordpinchot.html
Contact:: Emily Platt
Executive Director
Gifford Pinchot Task Force
(360) 521-7973
Emily@gptaskforce.org

Project Name:: San Bernardino National Forest Association
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Promotes social investment, particularly education, in the forest as a way to support both local community development and a healthy forest.
Contact:: Fran Colwell
Forest Recreation Officer
USDA Forest Service
909-382-2715
fcolwell@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Slickspot Peppergrass Candidate Conservation Agreement
Location:: Far West: Idaho
Summary:: The Agreement, and the willingness of non-affected private and state interests to enter into the agreement, resulted in the withdrawl of the proposal to list Slickspot Peppergrass as endangered.
Website:: osc.idaho.gov/strategic_plan.html
Contact:: Susan Giannettino
Deputy State Director
BLM Idaho State Office, Bureau of Land Management
208-373-3800

Current Conservation Programs