A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
Summary:: The Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership secured a 27,000-acre community forest and a 312,000-acre conservation easement to sustain a rural economy.
Website:: www.newenglandforestry.org/projects/dlfp.asp
Contact:: Amos Eno
Executive Director
New England Forestry Foundation

(207) 847-9313
aeno@newenglandforestry.org

Project Name:: Bridge Creek Salt Marsh Restoration Project
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts
Summary:: This project restored tidal flows to a 40-acre degraded salt marsh, improving habitat for a variety of estuarine organisms by replacing undersized culverts with larger, properly sized culverts.
Contact:: Georgeann Keer
Project Manager
MA Coastal Zone Management, Wetlands Restoration Program
617-626-1246
georgeann.keer@state.ma.us

Project Name:: Restoring bog turtle habitat in New York
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
Summary:: Federal, state, and NGO partners are working together with private landowners to restore the wetland habitat of the threatened bog turtle.
Website:: www.backfromthebrink.org/specieslearnabout.cfm?animal_id=1
Contact:: Bruce Hammond
Project manager/Scientist
Environmental Defense
617 723 2996
bhammond@environmentaldefense.org

Southeastern

Project Name:: North Carolina Sandhills Conservation Partnership
Location:: Southeastern: North Carolina
Summary:: The Partnership is a cooperative effort to restore the natural longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem on military, state and private lands in the North Carolina Sandhills
Contact:: Mr. Rick Studenmund
Sandhills Project Director
The Nature Conservancy
910-246-0300
rstudenmund@tnc.org

Project Name:: Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve
Location:: Southeastern: Florida
Summary:: Federal, state, and city agencies manage the 46,000-acre Timucuan Preserve and surrounding state and local parks as an integrated unit.
Website:: www.nps.gov/timu/
Contact:: Robert Joseph
Park Manager, Talbot Island State Parks
Florida State Park Service
904-251-2320
Robert.joseph@dep.state.fl.us

Project Name:: International Paper Conservation Bank
Location:: Southeastern: Georgia
Summary:: Project has provided a win-win trade-off in land uses by allowing logging activities to continue on commercial forest lands while ensuring that habitat is maintained for the red-cockaded woodpecker.
Website:: www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentid=2664
Contact:: Michael Bean
Sr. Attorney, Ecosystems Program
Environmental Defense
202-387-3500 ext 3312
michael_bean@environmentaldefense.org

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Conservation Security Program in the St. Joseph Watershed
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
Summary:: The Conservation Security Program in the St. Joseph watershed rewards agricultural landowners for superior conservation and stewardship practices.
Website:: www.mi.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/cspstjoe.html
Contact:: Robin Ryan
District Administrator
Hillsdale County Conservation District
517-849-9890 x 191
robin.ryan@mi.nacdnet.net

Project Name:: Builders for the Bay
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Summary:: A program aimed at reducing environmental impacts from developments within the Chesapeake Bay watershed through local code and ordinance modification
Website:: www.buildersforthebay.net
Contact:: Rebecca Winer
Program Manager
Center for Watershed Protection
410-461-8323
rrw.cwp.org

Project Name:: Tallgrass Legacy Alliance
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas
Summary:: Agricultural organizations, conservation organizations and private citizens seeking balanced, community based stewardship of the Kansas Tallgrass prairies.
Website:: www.oznet.ksu.edu/tla/
Contact:: Jeff Davidson
TLA Coordinator
Kansas State University Research and Extension
620-583-7455
jdavidso@oznet.ksu.edu

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Thunderbird/Tajique Landscape Projects
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: Two landscape-scale projects with large partnerships are working to reduce fire hazard, improve forest health, and create jobs for community sustainability.
Website:: www.fs.fed.us/projects/hfi/examples/cibola-nf.shtml
Contact:: Phil Archuleta
Chief Executive Office
P&M Signs
505-847-2850
info@pmsignsinc.com

Project Name:: American Forests & Bureau of Land Management
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: American Forests and the BLM teamed up to re-establish pine forests on acquired cutover lands on the Homestead Mesa in New Mexico.
Website:: www.americanforests.org
Contact:: Deborah Gangloff
Executive Director
American Forests
(202) 737-1944
info@amfor.org

Project Name:: Kiowa National Grassland Integrated Resource Management
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: This project involves managing the 136,505-acre National Grassland in northeastern New Mexico for greater productivity and healthier forage.
Website:: www.fs.fed.us/r3/cibola/districts/kiowa/shtml
Contact:: Nancy Walls

US Forest Service - Kiowa and Rita Blanca National Grasslands
(505) 374-9652
nwalls@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Public access management as an adaptive wildlife management tool
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: Developing an adaptive management approach to understand and address impacts of motor vehicle traffic and growing elk population on declining Gunnison Sage Grouse population.
Contact:: Raymond D. Watts
Research Scientist
U. S. Geological Survey
970-226-9378
rwatts@usgs.gov

Far West

Project Name:: Trumpeter Swan Restoration
Location:: Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming, Montana
Summary:: A private/public captive breeding and release program for trumpeter swans in the Rockies has helped prevent their listing as endangered.
Website:: www.r6.fws.gov/redrocks/rrl3.htm
Contact:: William M. Long
President
Wyoming Wetland Society
307-730-4444
whitewing55@aol.com

Project Name:: Community-Based Monitoring
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: The Chewaucan Biophysical Monitoring Project (CBMP) was born out of the combined efforts of environmental organizations, government agencies and, most of all, concerned community members.
Website:: www.lcri.org/monitoring/index.html
Contact:: Richard Hart
Project Coordinator
Lake County Resources Initiative
(541) 601-5226
rhart@mind.net

Project Name:: Elk City Township Defensible Space Project
Location:: Far West: Idaho
Summary:: Treating vegetative growth on federally managed land near homes and facilities. This action will reduce the potential and intensity of wildfire.
Website:: www.FramingOurCommunity.org
Contact:: Joyce Dearstyne
Executive Director
Framing Our Community
208 842-2939
joyce@FramingOurCommunity.org

Project Name:: Central Oregon Partnership for Wildfire Risk Reduction
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: The Central Oregon Partnership is using small tree harvests as a tool to foster health forest health and build new forest-biomass industries.
Website:: www.coic.org
Contact:: Scott Aycock
Program Administrator
Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council
541-548-9525
coic@coic.org

Project Name:: Southern Nevada Lands Partnership
Location:: Far West: Nevada
Summary:: Multi-agency and community partnerships conserve and steward “outside Las Vegas” using innovative funding and legislative authorities.
Website:: www.snlandspartnership.org
Contact:: Alan O’Neill
Executive Director
Outside Las Vegas Foundation
702-461-6162
aoneill@outsidelasvegas.org

Project Name:: Multi-State Sage-grouse Conservation Initiative
Location:: Far West: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, South-Central/South-West: Colorado, Utah
Summary:: A broadly-based cooperative effort utilizing working groups at the local level to restore habitats and rebuild populations of sage-grouse and other sagebrush-dependent wildlife across the West.
Contact:: Kathleen Clarke
Director USDI
Bureau of Land Management
202-208-3801
kathleen_clarke@blm.gov

Project Name:: SEAtrails
Location:: Far West: Alaska
Summary:: The Southeast Alaska Trails System (SEAtrails) links communities and outstanding recreation spots via the Alaska Ferry to promote the local economy through sustainable tourism.
Website:: www.seatrails.org/index.htm
Contact:: Lisa Holzapfel
Rivers & Trails Program Leader
National Park Service
(907) 644-3586
lisa_holzaphel@nps.gov

Current Conservation Programs