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10 YEARS of PARC Credits Cover Photos: Large Background, Speckled Rattlesnake American Alligator (John White), Priya Nanjappa with Spotted (J.D 10 YEARS OF PARC www.parcplace.org Credits Cover photos: Large background, Speckled Rattlesnake American Alligator (John White), Priya Nanjappa with Spotted (J.D. Willson). Front cover inset photos, top to bottom: Green Salamander egg mass (Robin Jung Brown), and Kurt Buhlmann Anole (J.D. Willson), Southern Toad (J.D. Willson), Squirrel Treefrogs with Bog Turtle (Joseph C. Mitchell). (John White), Barred Tiger Salamander (J.D. Willson), Sonoran Whipsnake (J.D. Willson), Eastern Box Turtle (J.D. Willson), and Interior page photos, right margin, top to bottom: Loggerhead Round-tailed Horned Lizard (J.D. Willson). Back cover inset Sea Turtle release (Matthew Godfrey), Ernie Garcia with Indigo photos, top to bottom: Spotted Turtle (John White), Green Snake (Joseph C. Mitchell), amphibian survey (Ray Davis), Paul Treefrogs (Paul Block), Collared Lizard, (J.D. Willson), Marbled Lipps exploring creek (Greg Lipps). Salamander (Robert Brodman), Red Cornsnake (J.D. Willson), Barking Treefrog (J.D. Willson), Greater Earless Lizard (Larry Jones). Inside Back Cover, clockwise from top left: Potomac River at Interior page photos, left margin, top to bottom: Polly Conrad Great Falls, Virginia (John White), Green Tree Frog (J.D. Willson), and Shirley Atkinson with Pygmy Short-horned Lizard (Cris Green Sea Turtle (J.D. Willson), Northern Watersnake (J.D. Willson). Tomlinson), Dede Olson with Cascades Frog (Mike McDowell), Amy White with juvenile We thank the following partners for funding this brochure: U.S. Bureau of Land Management U.S. Forest Service Resource Management Service, LLC COORDINATING EDITORS Deanna H. Olson, Ernesto R. Garcia, and Priya Nanjappa Dede Olson with Cascades Frog (Mike McDowell), Ernie Garcia with Western Pond Turtle (Jamie Bettaso), Priya Nanjappa with Eastern Spadefoot (Isaac Chellman) 10-YRS-OF-PARC TASK TEAM Al Breisch, Bob Brodman, Jimmy Bullock, Polly Conrad, Betty Crump, Whit Gibbons, Gabrielle Graeter, Mike Lannoo, Rob Lovich, Joe Mitchell, Bruce Taubert, Valorie Titus, Ben Wigley, and Kathryn Ronnenberg PRODUCTION SERVICES PROVIDED BY Bureau of Land Management, National Operations Center, Information and Publications Services Section P.O. Box 25047, Denver, CO 80225 AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: www.parcplace.org SUGGESTED CITATION Olson, D.H., E.R. Garcia, and P. Nanjappa. 2009. 10 Years of PARC. Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, National Brochure No. 5. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO, 23 pp. www.parcplace.org 10 YEARS OF PARC 10 Years of PARC Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation PARC is (PARC) was established in 1999 to address the • YOU, a diverse group of conservation- widespread declines, extinctions, and range minded citizens, professionals, and reductions of amphibians and reptiles in the organizations United States. A new paradigm for herpetofaunal conservation was needed; one that would bring • intended to connect and complement together citizens, field hobbyists, scientists, and existing conservation efforts resource managers for this common goal. • focused on keeping common species common and protecting habitats PARC Mission To conserve amphibians, reptiles and their habitats as integral parts of our ecosystem and culture through proactive and coordinated public/private partnerships. 10 Years of Growth and Achievement Expanding Partnerships Working Groups and Task Teams More than 1000 active members including Five regions (Southeast, Northeast, Midwest, representatives from the public, private landowners, Northwest, and Southwest) and some states many federal and state agencies, academic (e.g., Idaho and North Carolina) have active PARC institutions, non-government organizations, programs. Conservation challenges are addressed industries, all U.S. states, some Canadian provinces regionally and nationally by PARC Task Teams. and parts of Mexico. You can join us! Conservation Products and Services PARC has developed a variety of solution-oriented resources to guide conservation actions. See Details Inside! The Need is Now Amphibians and reptiles face multifaceted threats. the Earth has experienced4. Enhanced efforts are Worldwide, approximately two-thirds of turtles1,2 imperative to conserve our imperiled species and and one-third of amphibians3 are threatened. We the habitats upon which they rely. We need your may be witnessing the 6th major extinction event help to devise new approaches to solve this problem! 1 10 YEARS OF PARC www.parcplace.org The Need for Partners Conservation integrates society and science and Federal Partners cannot be accomplished alone, hence a network of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, people and groups forms the foundation of PARC. U.S. Forest Service, In addition to the partners below, PARC includes U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service, representatives from museums, nature centers, National Park Service, zoos, universities, herpetological organizations, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, tribes, interested citizens, and many other groups. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Partners are represented on PARC’s Joint National U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Steering Committee and provide strategic U.S. Geological Survey, consultation to guide PARC activities. Federal Highway Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, and You U.S. Department of Defense. Private citizens and landowners provide much of the foundation of PARC, and enable conservation State Agencies to happen on the ground. The impact of just one States, being the entity charged with maintaining person or landowner who recognizes the value of all fish and wildlife species as part of the public amphibians and reptiles as important parts of our trust, are another key partner in PARC. The ecosystem is immeasurable. We welcome anyone majority of U.S. States have been active in PARC at to join us in our efforts! the regional level, with more than 30 state agency partners contributing funding to develop products, Federal Agencies trainings, and workshops, and to support the State Federal agencies have played a vital role in the Coordinator position, initiated in 2004. In 2008, creation of PARC and its continuing success and the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies, a forward momentum. Over the past 10 years, the quasi-governmental organization whose members Federal partners have made substantial financial include all U.S. states and territories as well as contributions, which have been instrumental to several Canadian provinces, adopted the State PARC’s development of products and services. Coordinator position as the new Amphibian and With millions of acres of herpetofaunal habitats Reptile Coordinator. Also in 2008, the Association under their stewardship, and their numerous approved the creation of an Amphibian and Reptile biologists and resource managers, Federal agencies Subcommittee to provide a forum for and to raise will increasingly depend on PARC’s suite of the profile of amphibian and reptile issues in the conservation tools to put amphibian and reptile States, which met for the first time in the same year. conservation on the ground. Federal agency support has also been integral to sustaining the Federal Coordinator position, initiated in 2002. Also, in 2002, a Federal Agencies Steering Committee was established to raise and address amphibian and reptile issues within Federal Agencies. 2 www.parcplace.org 10 YEARS OF PARC Conservation and Academic and Research Laboratories Non-Governmental Organizations Students and professors at several academic Some of PARC’s most supportive partners are and research laboratories have been another conservation and non-governmental organizations. cornerstone in the PARC partnership. In They have helped PARC to sponsor workshops and particular, the Savannah River Ecology Lab (SREL, symposia, served as repositories for PARC funds, University of Georgia) has been an instrumental and funded the development and maintenance of provider of human capital and leadership vital PARC’s website and e-mail listservs. to the development of PARC and many of its conservation tools and training programs. University of Georgia faculty and students also Active NGO Partners developed and continue to maintain PARC’s Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Association of website and e-mail listservs. Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Center for Wetlands and Stream Restoration, Friends of PARC, IUCN-Conservation International, Missouri Academic and Research Partners Conservation and Heritage Foundation, National Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Oklahoma City Wayne; Museum of Southwestern Biology, Zoo and Botanical Garden, Society of Northwest University of New Mexico; University of Vertebrate Biology, Tucson Herp Society, and Georgia; and the University of Wyoming. Virginia Herpetological Society. Environmental Consultants Industry Many within PARC’s ranks are environmental Active industrial partners have supported PARC consultants who have provided countless hours with funds, in strategic planning efforts, in product of dedicated, and often in-kind, service to help development and review, and in support of PARC make PARC a success. They serve as Regional and symposia and conferences. National Co-Chairs, product developers, editors, levelers, trainers, and Task Team members. We are grateful for their talents, energy, and unwavering Industrial Partners commitment to PARC and to herpetofaunal American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA), conservation. International Paper, Mead-Westvaco, National Council
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