A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

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:: 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:: Compatible Use Buffer Program
Location:: Southeastern: Florida
Summary:: Florida agencies and groups worked with Camp Blanding to create buffer zones to stem Base encroachment and provide open space for conservation.
Website:: aec.army.mil/usaec/natural/natural03a.html
Contact:: Mollie Glover Palmer
Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
850-245-2011
mollie.palmer@dep.state.fl.us

Project Name:: Disney Wilderness Preserve Partnership
Location:: Southeastern: Florida
Summary:: An innovative partnership to restore and protect natural wetland and upland communities affected by past drainage operations, lumbering and cattle ranching.
Website:: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/florida/preserves
Contact:: Robert Mindick
Education and Community Outreach Program Manager
The Nature Conservancy
407-935-0002
rmindick@tnc.org

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Carity Prairie
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin
Summary:: The Milwaukee Area Land Conservancy has partnered with developer Bill Carity to preserve a rare prairie remnant and restore a sedge meadow complex. The site totals 23 acres and is open to the public.
Website:: my.core.com/~dhanson/
Contact:: Tim Burch
President - MALC
Milwaukee Area Land Concervancy
414-421-9788
tburch1@wi.rr.com

Project Name:: Chicago Region Land Conservation Plan
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois
Summary:: The Land Trust Alliance has convened 10 land conservation groups in the Chicago region to help them build capacity to protect the diversity of natural resources and landscapes in the Chicago region.
Website:: www.lta.org
Contact:: Renee Kivikko
Midwest Program Director
Land Trust Alliance
269-324-1683
rkivikko@lta.org

Project Name:: International Lake Level Management: Minnesota-Ontario Lakes region
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
Summary:: An international research program documents ecological changes associated with the new hydrologic regime in Namakan Reservoir, Voyageurs National Park.
Contact:: Larry Kallemeyn
Research Scientist
U.S. Geological Survey
218-283-9821
larry_kallemeyn@usgs.gov

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:: 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:: Canyon De Chelly National Monument
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: Canyon De Chelley National Monument is an early example of shared stewardship between the National Park Service and the Navajo Nation.
Contact:: Scott Travis
Superintendent, Canyon De Chelley National Monument
National Park Service
928-674-5500 ext 224

Project Name:: Landscape Change on Native Lands: Southern Colorado Plateau
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah
Summary:: Land use plans are developed using fundamental geologic information to identify landscape mobility, stability, and its relationship to local environmental conditions.
Website:: wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/wgmt/navajo/index.html
Contact:: Margaret Hiza Redsteer
Project Coordinator
U. S. Geological Survey
928 556-7366
mhiza@usgs.gov

Project Name:: Texas Hill Country Land Owner Conservation Assistance Program
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: Challenge is to restore and enhance habitat on ranchland that serves the needs of the Black Capped Vireo and the Golden-Cheeked Warbler, both listed species. All project sites are on private lands.
Contact:: Kim Sharp
Program Coordinator
Environmental Defense
512-478-5161
ksharp@ed.org

Far West

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:: Northwest Salmon Enhancement
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: The Northwest Salmon Enhancement Program is a multi-agency effort to improve and protect habitat and prey for listed fish species in Puget Sound.
Contact:: Randi Thurston
Fisheries Biologist
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
360-895-6123
Thurstrlt@telebyte.com

Project Name:: Dry Creek Quarry Restoration
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Since 2004, Sequoia Riverlands Trust has been restoring natural stream flows, recontouring disturbed areas, seeding native grasses and planting oak and sycamore trees at this former gravel mine.
Website:: www.sequoiariverlands.org
Contact:: Hilary Dustin
Land Steward
Sequoia Riverlands Trust
559.738.0211
hilary@sequoiariverlands.org

Project Name:: Business Alliance for Sustainable Energy
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: A joint project of 3EStrategies and the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council. The goal is to create and expand sustainable energy projects and firms in Central Oregon.
Website:: www.3estrategies.org
Contact:: Cylvia Hayes
Executive Director
3EStrategies
541.617.9013
info@3estrategies.org

Project Name:: Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Sawtooth Society
Location:: Far West: Idaho
Summary:: Preserving and protecting remaining open space, and enhancing recreation facilities and services, while considering the needs and interests of the local community.
Contact:: Robert Hayes
Executive Director
Sawtooth Society
208-387-0852
sawtoothsociety@sawtoothsociety.com

Project Name:: Upper Deschutes Resource Management Plan
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: Resource Management Plan was developed and consensus was reached between rancher advocates and environmental groups on a grazing matrix that categorizes allotments for use.
Website:: www5.or.blm.gov/Prineville/Deschutes_RMP/Home.htm
Contact:: Teal Purrington
Project Manager
Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District
541-416-6772
tpurring@or.blm.gov

National

Project Name:: Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative
Location:: National
Summary:: The Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative is a partnership among public and private organizations to determine trends in amphibian populations.
Website:: armi.usgs.gov/
Contact:: Rick Kearney
ARMI National Coordinator
U. S. Geological Survey
703-648-5719
rkearney@usgs.gov

Current Conservation Programs