A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Spring Run Trail
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
Summary:: Spring Run Trail offers safe off-road access to city recreational amenities and natural areas, recreating a "woodland path" that existed in the Spring Run Valley for much of the 1800s.
Website:: www.saratogaplan.org
Contact:: Alane Chinian
Executive Director
Saratoga PLAN
518-587-5554
alane@saratogaplan.org

Project Name:: UNH Stormwater Center
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire
Summary:: This project cooperatively tests designs to achieve stormwater treatment and volume reduction.
Website:: www.unh.edu/erg/cstev/
Contact:: Robert Roseen
Director
The UNH Stormwater Center
603-862-4024
Robert.roseen@unh.edu

Southeastern

Project Name:: Agency on Bay Management
Location:: Southeastern: Florida
Summary:: The Agency on Bay Management (ABM) is a 20-year collaboration of resource stakeholders focused on the wise management of Tampa Bay.
Website:: www.tbrpc.org/abm/default.htm
Contact:: Suzanne Cooper
Principal Planner
Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council
727-570-5151 x 32
suzanne@tbrpc.org

Project Name:: Lathrop Bayou Habitat Management Area
Location:: Southeastern: Florida
Summary:: Partners work across public and private boundaries, to provide funding, resources and expertise to manage intact long leaf forests.
Contact:: Bruce Dawson
Jackson Field Manager

601-977-5400
Bruce_Dawson@blm.gov

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:: Measuring Conservation Practices
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio
Summary:: A GIS-based model was developed to determine the effects of best management practices for agricultural lands on erosion and sedimentation rates.
Website:: www.oh.nrcs.usda.gov
Contact:: Steve Davis
NRCS Resource Conservationist
USDA-NRCS
419-222-0614 x 108
steve.davis@oh.usda.gov

Project Name:: District,NRCS target irrigation water quality
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska
Summary:: NRCS and Central Platte Natural Resources District use EQIP and district cost share funds to target cost-share funds at priority water quality irrigation farmers.
Contact:: James Huntwork
District Conservationist
Natural Resources Conservation Service
(308) 395-8586
james.huntwork@ne.usda.gov

Project Name:: Green Topeka Sustainable Development
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska
Summary:: Designed and implemented stormwater management systems that utilize vegetation to treat the volume of runoff, and to improve its quality.
Contact:: Greg Ruark
Program Manager
USDA National Agroforestry Center
256-372-4540
gruark@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Lake Superior Land Trust Partnership
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Summary:: Many land trusts and conservation groups have leveraged resources needed to conserve natural and scenic resources in the Lake Superior watershed.
Website:: www.lta.org
Contact:: Renee Kivikko
Midwest Program Director
Land Trust Alliance
269-324-1683
rkivikko@lta.org

Project Name:: Tinkers Creek Watershed Action Plan
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio
Summary:: A study of the Watershed seeking to initiate a Conservation Priority Plan to protect aquatic and terrestrial habitat.
Website:: Tinkerscreek.org
Contact:: Marion Olson
Land trust President
Tinkers Creek Land Conservancy
330 425 4159
maoteach@alltel.net

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Mancos Shale Terrains & Gunnison Gorge Project
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: The project examines geologic sources of elevated salinity and selenium that negatively impact water quality for community water supplies and agriculture.
Website:: minerals.cr.usgs.gov/projects/mancos_shale/task1.html
Contact:: Richard Grauch
Research Geologist
U. S. Geological Survey
303-236-5551
rgrauch@usgs.gov

Project Name:: Quintana Beach County Park
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: Property was acquired to develop a county park. The park has been utilized to educate the public and school groups on conservation practices and the need to conserve wetland areas.
Contact:: Darrell H. Schwebel
President
Cradle of Texas Conservancy, Inc.
(979)285-2173
dhschwebel@dow.com

Project Name:: Quivira Coalition
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: The Coalition fosters ecological, economic, and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship.
Website:: www.quiviracoalition.org
Contact:: Courtney White
Executive Director
Quivira Coalition
(505) 820-2544
executive@quiviracoalition.org

Project Name:: Restoring Endangered Kemp Ridley Sea Turtles at Padre Island National Seashore
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: The recovery program for the Kemp Ridley Turtle is a major cooperative effort resulting in the beginning re-establishment of a turtle colony on Padre Island and adjacent areas on the Gulf Coast.
Contact:: Colin Campbell
Superintendent, Padre Island National Seashore
National Park Service
361-949-8173 ext 229

Far West

Project Name:: Soap Lake Science and Community Collaborative
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: Science and education are bridging environmental goals and community economic development interests for the benefit of a unique natural resource.
Website:: www.thelake.org
Contact:: Jerry Vice
Chair
Soap Lake Conservancy
206-229-2066
gavice@comcast.net

Project Name:: Lakeface Lamb and Clearwater Stewardship Projects
Location:: Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: Stewardship contracts engage local communities in collaborative forest management and help National Forests meet their forest restoration goals.
Website:: www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/projects/stewardship/results/index.shtml
Contact:: Liz Johnson-Gebhardt
Community Spokesperson
Priest River Development Corporation
208-448-0210
lizjg35@hotmail.com

Project Name:: Backcountry Horsemen of America
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Developing a network of trail supporters and youth programs to adopt the PCT, specifically maintenance of a previously dilapidated 70 mile section.
Website:: www.backcountryhorse.com/
Contact:: Alan Hill
Public Liaison Chair
Backcountry Horsemen of America
530-221-8531
athill01@charter.net

Project Name:: Clearwater National Forest/Nez Perce Tribe Aquatic Restoration Partnership
Location:: Far West: Idaho
Summary:: A collaborative effort between the Clearwater National Forest, the Nez Perce Tribe & other partners to restore watershed conditions and anadramous fisheries habitat in Idaho's Clearwater River Basin.
Website:: www.fs.fed.us/r1/clearwater/ResourceProg/watershed/watershed.htm
Contact:: Anne Connor
Aquatic Restoration Engineer
USDA Forest Service Clearwater National Forest
(208) 476-8235
aconnor@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC)
Location:: Far West: Washington, Oregon
Summary:: The Spirit of the Fish plan utilizes a gravel-to-gravel approach integrated into an adaptive management framework to restore treaty protected fish resources
Website:: www.critfc.org
Contact:: Olney Patt, Jr.
Executive Director
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
503-238-0667
pato@critfc.org

Project Name:: Recovery of the White Sea Bass along the California Coast
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The purpose of the OREHP is to investigate the potential for proactively counteracting the depletion of California's coastal marine fisheries through stock enhancement.
Website:: www.lcjbsa.org/whiteseabass/sub/sb4.html
Contact:: Bill Shedd
President
AFTCO
800-452-3726
bill@aftco.com

Current Conservation Programs