A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Ditch Project
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
Summary:: A collaboration between academic, state, and federal institutions to better understand and manage nutrient losses from agricultural drainage ditches.
Website:: www.sawgal.umd.edu/drainageditches/
Contact:: Brian Needelman
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
301-405-8227
bneed@umd.edu

Project Name:: Nanticoke Watershed Initiative
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
Summary:: The Conservation Fund developed a vision for protecting and interpreting the natural, cultural and recreational resources of the Nanticoke Watershed.
Website:: www.conservationfund.org
Contact:: Keith O'Connor
Associate
The Conservation Fund
703-525-6300
koconnor@drhorne.com

Project Name:: Creating Recreation Outlets through Land Revitalization Efforts
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island
Summary:: The City of Providence has redeveloped a number of former Brownfields sites into greenspace and bike paths, using federal and state funding, including U.S. EPA Brownfields Resources.
Contact:: Tony Raia
Program Manager
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
202-566-2758
Raia.Anthony@epamail.epa.gov

Southeastern

Project Name:: Mecklenburg County Ozone Reduction Action Program
Location:: Southeastern: North Carolina
Summary:: Duke Energy is participating in a voluntary ozone reduction action program to help reduce ozone forming air emissions in Mecklenburg County, N.C. during the “ozone season” months.
Contact:: Mark E. Hollis
Director-Environmental Policy
Duke Power
704-373-3726
mehollis@duke-energy.com

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:: Mississippi Wildlife and Grenada Lake
Location:: Southeastern: Mississippi
Summary:: This partnership has produced record fish, relocated overpopulated deer herds, managed disease outbreaks in fish and wildlife and increased acreage of waterfowl management.
Contact:: Bubba Hubbard
Assistant Fish Chief
Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks
601-432-2208
bubbah@mdwfp.state.ms.us

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Medicine Bow Trail
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
Summary:: Convert approximately 23 miles of old railroad corridor into non-motorized trail for public use in cooperation with Albany County, Laramie Bicycling Network, and others.
Contact:: Paul Blackman
Recreation Planner
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
(307)745-2363
plblackman@fs.fed.us

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Upper San Pedro Partnership
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: A consortium comprised of 21 local, state and federal agencies and organizations whose goal is to ensure an adequate long-term groundwater supply for both residents and the Upper San Pedro River.
Website:: www.usppartnership.com/index.html
Contact:: Carl Robie
Outreach Committee Chair
Upper San Pedro Partnership
(520) 559-3708

Project Name:: Sonoran Pronghorn Captive Breeding Program
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: A cooperative captive breeding program was established in Arizona to halt the decline of the endangered Sonoran Pronghorn and to seed new populations of the species in the state.
Contact:: Mr. John Hervert
Wildlife Biologist
Arizona Department of Game and Fish
928-342-0091
jhervert@gf.state.az.us

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:: New Mexico Collaborative Watershed Projects
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: The New Mexico Collaborative Watershed Projects are cooperative community based efforts to improve water quality in New Mexico.
Contact:: Sarah Walen
Senior Mediator
Meridian Institute
970-513-8340 ext. 221
skwalen@merid.org

Project Name:: James Bates Blue hole County Park
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: Developed a 300+ acre County park facility to preserve key wetlands and provide the public access to a recreational area
Contact:: Darrell H. Schwebel
President
Cradle of Texas Conservancy, Inc
(979)285-2173
dhschwebel@dow.com

Project Name:: Landscape Change, Grassland Health, and Bark Beetle Infestation
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: Remotely sensed satellite data are used to develop maps and GIS layers that enable the San Carlos Apache Tribe to manage their lands.
Contact:: Edwin L. Pfeifer
Acting Team Chief
U. S. Geological Survey
520-670-5019
epfeifer@usgs.gov

Far West

Project Name:: Keizer Rapids Regional Community Park
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: The Keizer Rapids Park demonstrates how the Willamette American Heritage Rivers Initiative works with local partners to provide leverage for projects and build community capacity.
Website:: www.keizer.org/publicworks/Rapids/FactSheet.pdf
Contact:: Mark A. Brown
Willamette River Navigator
BLM
(541) 520-3886
mark_brown@blm.gov

Project Name:: Cooperative Sagebrush Steppe Restoration Initiative
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Conservation groups work together to restore sagebrush steppe ecosystems through the removal of invasive western juniper and applying adapative management techniques.
Website:: www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/cpi
Contact:: Kenneth Weaver
District Conservationist
Natural Resources Conservation Service
530-257-7272
kenneth.weaver@ca.usda.gov

Project Name:: Little Vulcan Mountain Bighorn Restoration Project
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: A collaborative effort to save the Wild Bighorn sheep herd. As a result of this project, the numbers of sheep have been increasing significantly.
Contact:: Kerrin Doloughan
Range Management Specialist
BLM Spokane District
(509) 536-1253
Kerrin_Doloughan@blm.gov

Project Name:: NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program and Restore America’s Estuaries
Location:: Far West: Washington, California, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, Washington, DC, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South-Central/South-West: Louisiana, Texas, Southeastern: Florida, North Carolina
Summary:: Through financial and technical assistance, this partnership focuses on restoring the nation’s most productive marine ecosystems—its estuaries.
Website:: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_programs/crp/partners/rae.html
Contact:: Steve Emmett-Mattox
Vice President
Restore America’s Estuaries
703-524-0248
sem@estuaries.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

Project Name:: National Marine Sanctuary Program
Location:: National
Summary:: The NMSP has 11 Advisory Councils that provide advice on education, outreach, research, science, regulations, enforcement, and management planning to protect marine resources.
Website:: www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/welcome.html
Contact:: Karen Brubeck
National Advisory Council Coordinator
National Marine Sanctuary Program
206-842-6084
Karen.Brubeck@noaa.gov

Project Name:: Walk A Mile in My Boots is Implemented Nationwide
Location:: National
Summary:: Cattlemen and biologists spend several days together, experiencing first-hand each other’s day-to-day activities, with the goal of opening the lines of communication, and developing partnerships.
Website:: www.fws.gov/walkamile/
Contact:: Stacey Katseanes
Associate Director
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
202-347-0228 x114
skatseanes@beef.org

Current Conservation Programs