A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Chesapeake Bay Program, Chesapeake Bay Commission
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia
Summary:: The Chesapeake Bay Program is a multi-state, multi-agency effort to restore water quality in the Chesapeake Bay through sound land-use decisions.
Website:: chesapeake.usgs.gov/
Contact:: Ann Swanson
Executive Director
Chesapeake Bay Commission
(410) 263-3420
annswanson@covad.net

Project Name:: Fresh off the Barge
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
Summary:: A renaissance of transportation on the Hudson River utilizing Barges as an alternative for trucks to distribute agricultural products.
Website:: www.yonkersdwbid.com/FreshOffTheBarge.htm
Contact:: Joseph Heller

Lower Hudson-Long Island RC&D Council, Inc.
914-923-4866
joseph.heller@ny.usda.gov

Project Name:: Living Learning Collaborative
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts
Summary:: Education that brings out the greatness in each of us in harmony with Life on Earth
Contact:: Mary Beth Merritt
Director

(413) 528-4262 x12345
fourwindsfarmgb@aol.com

Project Name:: Saratoga Lake Preserve
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
Summary:: This project ensures a stretch of shoreline remains unspoiled and protects wetlands, hardwood forests, and riparian habitats.
Website:: www.saratogaplan.org
Contact:: Alane Ball Chinian
Executive Director
Saratoga PLAN
518-587-5554
alane@saratogaplan.org

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Community Floodplain Buyout Partnership
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri
Summary:: Missouri watershed project used to buyout more than 100 frequently flooded residences and businesses in Piedmont. In their place are a park and a hiking trail.
Contact:: Roger A. Hansen
State Conservationist
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
573-876-0901
roger.hansen@mo.usda.gov

Project Name:: Thompson - Fisher
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: This project purchased a conservation easement to prevent subdivision and development on 142,000 acres of working forestland in the Thompson River and Fisher River valleys of northwestern Montana.
Website:: www.tpl.org
Contact:: Tom Sadler
Director of Program Development
Trust for Public Land
202-543-7552
tom.sadler@tpl.org

Project Name:: Fleshman Creek
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: In partnership with the City of Livingston and Trout Unlimited, NPS helped to design and plan a stream restoration project to provide trout spawning and rearing habitat.
Website:: www.nps.gov/ncrc/programs/rtca/news&events/ne_stories/conssucc/Trout_Habitat_Improved.html
Contact:: Gary Weiner
RTCA Montana field office
National Park Service
(406) 587-1667
gary_weiner@nps.gov

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Army Compatible Use Buffer Project
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: Conservation easements on lands adjacent to Fort Carson are being created to buffer the Fort from development and to maintain open space and wildlife habitat.
Website:: aec.army.mil/usaec/natural/natural03a.html
Contact:: Mr. Matthew Moorehead
Program Manager
The Nature Conservancy
720-974-7042
mmoorhead@tnc.org

Project Name:: Wet Mountain Valley
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: The Trust for Public Land is involved in an initiative to acquire conservation easements in the Wet Mountain Valley in Colorado.
Website:: www.tpl.org
Contact:: Tom Sadler
Director of Program Development
Trust for Public Land
202-543-7552

Project Name:: Fire-affected Community Restoration and Recovery
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: Volunteer Task Force provides opportunities for volunteers to participate in ecological restoration and citizen science projects that benefit fire- and drought-affected communities in the Southwest.
Website:: www.volunteertaskforce.org/VTF%20Home.htm
Contact:: John Hogan
Physical Scientist
U. S. Geological Survey
505-662-1963
john_hogan@usgs.gov

Project Name:: Southern Arkansas Environmental Improvement Project
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas
Summary:: A complex partnership has significant success conducting outreach, monitoring cleanups, and conducting compliance inspections of past and present oil fields.
Contact:: Gary Looney
Manager-Permitting and Field Services
Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission
870-862-4965
gary@aogc.state.ar.us

Far West

Project Name:: Montana Water Trust
Location:: Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: MWT develops water transfer agreements with farmers, ranchers, and other landowners that increase flows and benefit native fish in Montana’s 4,000 miles of dewatered streams.
Website:: www.montanawatertrust.org
Contact:: Brianna Randall
Development Associate

(406) 829-3736
brianna.randall@montanawatertrust.org

Project Name:: Helping Indian Tribes Manage Natural Resources
Location:: Far West: Nevada
Summary:: The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe recently completed a Comprehensive Resource Management Plan with the assistance of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service on their 475,000 acre Reservation.
Contact:: Deb Prevost
Resource Conservationist
USDA NRCS
(775) 857-8500 x 144
deb.prevost@nv.usda.gov

Project Name:: Metropolitan Greenspaces Program
Location:: Far West: Washington, Oregon
Summary:: This program supports environmental education, habitat restoration and protection, environmental planning, and ecological studies throughout an urban greenspaces system.
Website:: www.fws.gov/pacific/oregonfwo/greenspaces/gs-UrbanConservation.htm
Contact:: Jim Desmond
Senior Director
Metro Regional Parks and Greenspaces
(503) 797-1850
desmondj@metro.dst.or.us

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:: 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

Project Name:: Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Management Collaboration
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: International partnership developing solutions, sharing science and implementing protective actions for one of the most ecologically diverse ecosystems in North America.
Website:: www.psat.wa.gov
Contact:: John Dohrmann
Washington/Co-Chair
Puget Sound Georgia Basin Internationl Task Force
360-725-5440
jdohrmann@psat.wa.gov

Project Name:: Spokane District Packer Creek Hydrolic Restoration Project
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: Partners worked together to restore the hydrology and associated wetland complexes of Packer Creek, while still maintaining livestock forage production, wildlife habitat and watershed needs.
Contact:: Todd Thompson
Wildlife Biologist
Bureau of Land Management, Spokane District
509-536-1241
Todd_Thompson@blm.gov

National

Project Name:: LANDFIRE
Location:: National
Summary:: LANDFIRE is a multi-organization partnership to identify and prioritize areas for, and improve coordination on, hazardous fuel reduction.
Website:: http://www.landfire.gov/
Contact:: Dan Crittenden
LANDFIRE Business Lead
USDA Forest Service
202-239-9379
dcrittenden@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Collaborative Resource Stewardship in National Trails System
Location:: National
Summary:: The National Appalachian Scenic Trail must rely on partnerships to meet its mission. The trail is maintained, managed and protected through a unique cooperative arrangement.
Contact:: Pam Underhill
Superintendent
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
National Park Service
304-535-6279

Current Conservation Programs