APPENDIX Project Summaries

Brief descriptions of cooperative conservation projects with contact information

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation 171 Project Name: Baltimore Ecosystem Study Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Region Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland Summary: Collaborative long-term study about urban ecology and the social beneﬁts of conservation; project involves extensive monitoring and a signiﬁcant educational component. Contact: Michael T. Rains, Director, USDA Forest Service, 610-557-4017, [email protected]

Project Name: Acadia Trails Forever, Acadia National Park Project Name: Barren Island Shoreline Protection and Wetland Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Restoration Summary: The project is unique in that Acadia is the ﬁrst Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland, Virginia National Park to use entry fees to match private Summary: This multi-agency partnership addresses the issues fundraising. Acadia is also the ﬁrst National Park to of dredge material placement, island erosion, have a privately endowed trail system. resource protection, and innovative shoreline Contact: W. Kent Olson, President, Friends of Acadia, protection in one tidal marsh/island restoration 207-288-3340, [email protected] project. Website: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration Contact: Rich Takacs, Mid-Atlantic Restoration Coordinator, NOAA Restoration Center, 410-267-5672, [email protected]

Project Name: Appalachian Mountain Club Maine Woods Initiative Project Name: Black River Greenway Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey Summary: The AMC’s Maine Woods Initiative is a strategy Summary: Partnership of NJDEP Green Acres, Morris County, 2 for land conservation that integrates habitat private landowners and 2 non-proﬁt organizations, protection, recreation, education, and sustainable & local municipality preserving 207 acres toward forestry in the 100-Mile Wilderness region of the completion of a regional river corridor. Maine. Contact: David Peifer, Executive Director, Upper Raritan Website: www.outdoors.org/mwi Watershed Assoc., 908-234-1852, [email protected] Contact: Walter Graff, Deputy Director, Appalachian Mountain Club, (603) 466-2721, ext. 194, [email protected]

Project Name: Appalachian National Scenic Trail Project Name: Bog Turtle Recovery, Back from the Brink Program Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland, Maine, New Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Summary: Bog turtle recovery project establishes a new model Virginia, Vermont, West Virginia, Connecticut, for targeted recovery of certain types of species Massachusetts, Southeastern: Georgia, North through multi-party cooperation on private lands. Carolina, Tennessee Website: www.environmentaldefense.org Summary: Eighty year-old public/private partnership manages Contact: Michael Bean, Sr. Attorney, Ecosystems Program, the 2,175 mile-long trail from Maine to Georgia. Environmental Defense, 202-387-3500, Website: www.appalachiantrail.org [email protected] Contact: Dave Startzell, Executive Director, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, 304-535-6331 x 116, [email protected]

Project Name: Ballston Creek Preserve Project Name: Boston Harbor Island National Park Area Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts Summary: This land protection project will protect 40 acres Summary: A new breed of National Park, owned and of forest, pond, wetland, and riparian habitat managed collaboratively by a broad range of public including a great blue heron rookery and is an and private landowners, agencies, and partners. important part of a Saratoga County wildlife Contact: Thomas B. Powers, President, Island Alliance, corridor. 617-223-8530, [email protected] Website: www.saratogaplan.org Contact: Alane Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga PLAN, 518-587-5554, [email protected]

172 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Boyd’s Marsh Coastal Wetlands Restoration Project Name: Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC, Summary: Town Pond, once a thriving coastal pond on Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Narragansett Bay, is being restored from years of Virginia dredge spoils and permanently conserved by US Summary: A partnership of more than 140 parks, refuges, ACE, NBEP, State of RI, and Save The Bay. museums, historic sites, and water trails builds Website: www.aquidnecklandtrust.org citizen involvement in the Chesapeake region. Contact: Edward S. Clement, Jr., Esq., Executive Director, Website: www.baygateways.net Aquidneck Land Trust, 401 849 2799 x12, Contact: Jonathan Doherty, Director, Chesapeake Bay [email protected] Gateways Network, National Park Service, 410-267-5725, [email protected]

Project Name: Bridge Creek Salt Marsh Restoration Project Project Name: Chesapeake Bay Program Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland Summary: This project restored tidal ﬂows to a 40-acre Summary: A unique regional partnership aimed at restoring degraded salt marsh, improving habitat for “a system with abundant, diverse populations of a variety of estuarine organisms by replacing living resources, fed by healthy streams and rivers” undersized culverts with larger, properly sized Website: www.chesapeakebay.net culverts. Contact: Chris Conner, Communications Director, Contact: Georgeann Keer, Project Manager, MA Coastal Zone Chesapeake Bay Program Ofﬁce, 410-267-5758, Management, Wetlands Restoration Program, [email protected] 617-626-1246, [email protected]

Project Name: Bristoe Station Battleﬁeld Project, VA Project Name: Chesapeake Bay Program, Chesapeake Bay Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Commission Summary: The Civil War Preservation Trust, working with Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania, Virginia, Centex Homes and Prince William County, Va., was West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, New York able to save 127 acres of this pristine battleﬁeld. Summary: The Chesapeake Bay Program is a multi-state, Website: www.civilwar.org multi-agency effort to restore water quality in the Contact: Jim Campi, Policy and Communications Director, Chesapeake Bay through sound land-use decisions. Civil War Preservation Trust, 202-367-1861, Website: chesapeake.usgs.gov/ [email protected] Contact: Ann Swanson, Executive Director, Chesapeake Bay Commission, (410) 263-3420, annswanson@covad. net

Project Name: Buffalo Creek Riparian Buffer Restoration Project Name: Chesapeake Bay Science Program Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania, West Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia Summary: Agencies, universities, non-proﬁts, and foundations Summary: Research program providing unbiased scientiﬁc offered cost share and technical assistance for information used to formulate and assess riparian and instream habitat restoration. the effectiveness of restoration goals for the Contact: Jose Taracido, Wildlife Conservation Specialist, Chesapeake Bay established by Chesapeake Bay California University of Pennsylvania, 724-938-5799, Program. [email protected] Website: www.chesapeakebay.net/ Contact: Scott W. Phillips, Chesapeake Bay Coordinator, U. S. Geological Survey, 410-238-4252, [email protected]

Project Name: Charles River Project Name: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Conservation Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, Summary: The Clean Charles effort brings together a variety New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia of organizations and their diverse projects to clean Summary: Regional partnership works with farmers to the river for swimming by 2005. improve agricultural practices and improve water Website: www.epa.gov/boston/charles2005 quality within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Contact: Robert Zimmerman, Jr., Executive Director, Charles Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/state_updates.htm River Watershed Association, 781-788-0007, Contact: Charles K. Chadwell, CREP Program Manager, USDA [email protected] Farm Service Agency, 202-720-7674, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 173 Project Name: Chesapeake Marshlands National Wildlife Refuge Project Name: Creating Recreation Outlets through Land Complex Cooperative Volunteer Invasives Revitalization Efforts Monitoring Project Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland Summary: The City of Providence has redeveloped a number Summary: This project is part of a national effort that involves of former Brownﬁelds sites into greenspace and the collaboration of local volunteers to identify and bike paths, using federal and state funding, map invasive plant species. A foundation for an including U.S. EPA Brownﬁelds Resources. intense invasive management program. Contact: Tony Raia, Program Manager, U.S. Environmental Contact: Rachel Cliche, Wildlife Biologist, Invasive Species Protection Agency, 202-566-2758, Specialist, USFWS, Chesapeake Marshlands National [email protected] Wildlife Refgue Complex, 410-639-2108, [email protected]

Project Name: Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Partnership Project Name: Critical Habitat of Endangered Piping Plover Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire Preserved Summary: In northern New Hampshire 174,000 acres of Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island forestland were purchased to enhance recreational Summary: Aquidneck Land Trust secured a 23-acre opportunities and beneﬁt the local economy conservation agreement with the Norman Bird through sustainable forestry. Sanctuary to preserve critical estuarine & marshland Website: www.tpl.org habitat of endangered piping plover. Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust Website: www.aquidnecklandtrust.org for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] Contact: Edward S. Clement, Jr., Esq., Executive Director, Aquidneck Land Trust, 401-849-2799 x12, [email protected]

Project Name: Connecticut River - Riverbank Restoration Project Name: Darby Farm - Alburg Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont, New Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont Hampshire Summary: After earning a PhD in agronomy, Heather Darby Summary: Riverbank erosion control, water quality returned to the family farm and is transforming the improvement, and habitat enhancement through farm through sustainable management practices. It bank stabilization and riparian buffer installation. is a diversiﬁed agricultural operation. Website: www.crjc.org Website: www.vlt.org Contact: Sharon Francis, Executive Director, Connecticut Contact: Jon Ramsay, Stewardship Agricultural Manager, River Joint Commissions, 603-826-4800, Vermont Land Trust, 802-434-3079, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Conserving Maryland’s Threatened Bog Turtle Project Name: Delaware Bay Oyster Restoration Project, Delaware Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland & New Jersey Summary: The Partnership is working with private farmers Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, New Jersey and landowners to help recover the threatened bog Summary: Planting of 110,000 bushels of shell that provide turtle. suitable substrate for development of juvenile Website: www.bogturtles.org oysters, resulting in both environmental & Contact: Tim Male, Senior Ecologist, Environmental Defense, economic beneﬁts to the Delaware Bay on a 2023873500, [email protected] regional level. Contact: Amanda Muscavage, Project Manager, US Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District, 215.656.6576, [email protected]

Project Name: Creating a Natural Resource Plan for Philipstown Project Name: Ditch Project NY Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: A collaboration between academic, state, and Summary: The natural resource protection plan will include federal institutions to better understand and an inventory of existing natural resources in manage nutrient losses from agricultural drainage Philipstown, identify protection goals and present ditches. implementation strategies to achieve those goals. Website: www.sawgal.umd.edu/drainageditches/ Website: www.hhlt.org Contact: Brian Needelman, Assistant Professor, University of Contact: Andrew Chmar, Executive Director, Hudson Maryland, 301-405-8227, [email protected] Highlands Land Trust, (845) 424-3358, [email protected]

174 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Downeast Initiative Project Name: Escobar’s Highland Farm Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island Summary: This pilot project, in collaboration with ﬁsheries Summary: After years of hard work, Aquidneck Land Trust in other parts of the Gulf of Maine, can serve as reached a monumental agreement with Louis and a model for developing sustainable, resilient co- Jane Escobar to acquire the deed to development management of marine resources. rights on 75 contiguous acres of the Portsmouth Contact: Dr. James Wilson, Professor, School of Marine farm. Sciences, University of Maine, 207-581-4368, Website: www.AquidneckLandTrust.org [email protected] Contact: Edward Clement, Executive Director, Aquidneck Land Trust, 401-849-2799, [email protected]

Project Name: Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership Project Name: Experiments to Evaluate Sea Turtle Mitigation Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Measures in the Pelagic Longline Fishery Summary: The Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership secured Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey a 27,000-acre community forest and a 312,000-acre Summary: The partnership project resulted in the successful conservation easement to sustain a rural economy. development of ﬁshing techniques that signiﬁcantly Website: www.newenglandforestry.org/projects/dlfp.asp reduce sea turtle interaction with pelagic longline Contact: Amos Eno, Executive Director, New England gear. Forestry Foundation, (207) 847-9313, Website: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/mediacenter/turtles/ [email protected] Contact: John Watson, NOAA Harvesting Team Leader, NOAA, 228-762-4591, [email protected]

Project Name: Ducktrap Coalition, Ducktrap River Watershed Project Name: Fish and Mussel Propagation in the Upper Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Tennessee River Basin of Virginia Summary: Ducktrap watershed coalition formed to protect Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia natural values in the watershed through a Summary: Partnership has developed freshwater ﬁsh and multifaceted partnership. mussel propagation technologies to produce ﬁsh Website: www.coastalmountains.org/htm/duckt_coalition. and juvenile mussels to be used for research and to htm augment declining populations. Contact: Scott Dickerson, Executive Director, Coastal Contact: Shane Hanlon, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish Mountains Land Trust, 207 236 7091, and Wildlife Service, 276-623-1233 x 25, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Ducktrap River Tributary Restoration Project Project Name: Forest For Every Classroom Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont Summary: The goal of the Ducktrap River project was to Summary: A Forest For Every Classroom partnership created a protect federally-endangered Atlantic Salmon and stewardship program to build capacity in teachers. other cold water species by stabilizing the eroding They learn about teaching place, forests, ecology, portions of the tributary channel. and using public lands as outdoor classroom. Contact: Kym Sanderson, District Ofﬁce Manager, Waldo Website: www.nps.gov/mabi/mabi/education/forest.htm County Soil and Water Conservation District, Contact: Kathleen Diehl, Partnership Coordinator, 207-338-1964 x 3, [email protected] (802) 747-6709, [email protected]

Project Name: Elizabeth River Project Project Name: Fort McHenry Wetland Restoration and Field Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Station Summary: Coalition of organizations and projects to prevent Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland future pollution, reduce existing pollution and Summary: The Aquarium worked to reconstruct this wetland create wildlife habitat along a highly-industrialized creating a fully functioning marsh by promoting Chesapeake Bay tributary. regular, natural tidal flooding, controlling debris Website: www.elizabethriver.org accumulation, and enhancing habitat. Contact: Majorie Mayfield Jackson, Executive Director, Website: www.aqua.org/conservationevents_ Elizabeth River Project, 757-399-7487, fortmchenrydays.html mmayfi[email protected] Contact: Glenn Page, Director of Conservation, National Aquarium in Baltimore, 410-576-3808, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 175 Project Name: Franklin Parker Preserve Restoration Project Name: Glen Cove Watershed Revitalization Initiative Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: The Franklin Parker Preserve restoration project Summary: A diverse partnership restored more than 200 acres will transform 1100 acres of disturbed agricultural of contaminated property to ecology-conscious and wetlands back to their natural wetland conditions. innovative urban use. Website: www.njconservation.org Website: www.epa.gov/brownﬁelds/cities/glencove.htm Contact: Tim Morris, Assistant Director, New Jersey Contact: Maxine Collins, Brownﬁelds Coordinator, Glen Cove Conservation Foundation, 908-234-1225 x 129, Community Development Agency, 516-676-1625, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Fresh off the Barge Project Name: Great Bay Partnership Land and Waterfowl Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Conservation Summary: A renaissance of transportation on the Hudson Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire River utilizing Barges as an alternative for trucks to Summary: Using a partnership-developed conservation distribute agricultural products. plan, nearly 7,000 acres of wetlands and uplands Website: www.yonkersdwbid.com/FreshOffTheBarge.htm adjoining New Hampshire’s Great Bay estuary have Contact: Joseph Heller, Lower Hudson-Long Island RC&D been protected. Council, Inc., 914-923-4866, Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/ﬁeldguide/ [email protected] projectproﬁles/gbe.html Contact: Peter Wellenberger, Manager Great Bay NERR, NH Fish and Game Department, 603-868-1095, [email protected]

Project Name: Friends of the Rappahannock (F.O.R.) Project Name: Green Space for Living: Metro-Washington, DC Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Demonstration Project Summary: Conservation and protection of the Rappahannock Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC River and its watershed through locally-led Summary: The focus of the partnership is to gather and share partnerships promoting L.I.D practices, agricultural information that can help local decision makers BMP’s and conservation easements. better accommodate both development and green Website: www.riverfriends.org space conservation. Contact: Tom Van Arsdall, Volunteer Chair, Friends of the Contact: Glenn Eugster, Assistant Regional Director, National Rappahannock, (540) 785-0949, Capital Region, National Park Service, 202-619-7492, [email protected]

Project Name: Galway Tree Farm Preserve Project Name: Groundwork USA Initiative Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Connecticut, Summary: This 49 acre property contains a mix of habitats Massachusetts, New Hampshire including maturing Christmas tree plantations, Summary: Through an innovative partnership with EPA, natural forest, open ﬁeld, wetland, and ponds. NPS is engaging citizens in transforming their Website: www.saratogaplan.org communities by starting locally-based, nonproﬁt Contact: Alane Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga PLAN, environmental businesses called Groundwork Trusts. 518-587-5554, [email protected] Website: www.groundworkusa.net/ Contact: Doug Evans, RTCA Groundwork coordinator, National Park Service, (617) 223-5124, [email protected]

Project Name: GIS Environmental Master Plan Project Name: Guildford Farm Conservation Development Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Summary: Assisting Smaller Communities with environmental Summary: Guildford Farm is a 35 lot Conservation remediation, land use planning, and other activities Development that will protect 150 acre farm by supplying GIS data and technical expertise. and wildlife preserve and buffer on key Website: www.pagis.org waterways. Houses and roads will use Low Impact Contact: Alex Rogers, Navigator, Upper Susquehanna Development, LID, methods. American Heritage River, 570-826-6340, Contact: Carl Schmitt, President, Blue Ridge Foothills [email protected] Conservancy, 434-985-9815, [email protected]

176 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Habitat Restoration for the Protection of Federally Project Name: Katahdin Iron Works Listed Species Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Summary: The purchase of a conservation easement on a Summary: Partners and many private landowners implement 37,000 acre property east of Moosehead Lake in best management practices (BMP) to improve water Maine. quality and habitat for about 30 federally listed, Website: www.tpl.org threatened and endangered species. Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust Contact: Shane Hanlon, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, Partners for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] for Fish and Wildlife Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 276-623-1233 x 25, [email protected]

Project Name: Habitat Restoration in the Casco Bay Watershed Project Name: Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Summary: The Casco Bay Estuary Partnership ensures Summary: Public and private forest managers, with the ecological integrity and compatible human uses for conservation group Sand County Foundation, the Bay’s resources through public stewardship and created the voluntary Kinzua Quality Deer effective management. Cooperative to restore a healthy forest ecosystem. Website: www.cascobay.usm.maine.edu Website: www.allegheny-vacation.com/kqdc.html Contact: Karen Young, Director, Casco Bay Estuary Contact: Kevin McAleese, Program Director, Sand County Partnership, 207-780-4820, [email protected] Foundation, 608-663-4605, [email protected]

Project Name: Honeycomb Preserve Management Plan Project Name: Kirkwood Farm Protection Project Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Summary: The management plan includes ecological Summary: A collaboration between Willistown Conservation information about the property and outlines the Trust, Delchester, Group, Inc., PA DCNR, Chester conservation objectives for managing the land. County, Willistown Township and 11 community Website: www.hhlt.org lenders to permanently protect 324 priority acres. Contact: Marlo Kovacs, Land Steward, Hudson Highlands Website: www.wctrust.org Land Trust, (845) 424-3358, [email protected] Contact: Betsy Block, Director of Development, Willistown Conservation Trust, 610-353-2562, [email protected]

Project Name: Hudson Valley Farmland Protection Project Project Name: Lake George Land Conservancy Watershed Project Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: Scenic Hudson has protected more than 4,800 Summary: The partnership created an 1850-acre preserve to acres of Hudson Valley farmland through protect a major Lake George tributary and the partnerships with willing farm owners and multiple Town of Bolton’s drinking water source. governmental and private funding sources. Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ Website: www.scenichudson.org/farmland/index.html newyork/lakegeorge/ Contact: Seth McKee, Director of Policy and Programs, Contact: Lynn L. Schumann, Executive Director, Lake George The Scenic Hudson Land Trust, Inc., 845-473-4440, Land Conservancy, 518-644-9673, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Hunt Forestland Project Project Name: Land Trust/Municipal Partnerships for Conservation Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Summary: This well-managed forestland has been managed Summary: Land trust works cooperatively with local planning by the owner since 1956. It is one of 16 properties boards to accept title to designated open spaces nationwide designated as Model Forests by the and manage them for their natural resources and Forest Guild, the only one in Vermont. public access. Website: www.vlt.org Website: www.gwrlt.org Contact: Carl Powden, Forest Projects Director, Vermont Land Contact: Susan Lamb, Director of Development, Great Trust, 802-223-5234, [email protected] Works Regional Land Trust, (207) 646-3604, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 177 Project Name: Lewiston Initiates Community Investment with Project Name: Maine Coast Protection Initiative Bates Mill Redevelopment Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Summary: The Land Trust Alliance has convened 70 coastal Summary: The City of Lewiston, Maine cleaned up and land trusts, other groups, and state and federal redeveloped a former textile mill using U.S. agencies, to conserve the Maine coast’s natural and Environmental Protection Agency Brownﬁelds cultural resources. funding. Existing structures were conserved. Website: www.lta.org Contact: Tony Raia, Program Manager, U.S. Environmental Contact: Amy Owsley, Field Representative for the Maine Protection Agency, 202-566-2758, Coast Protection Initiative, Land Trust Alliance, [email protected] 207-319-9716, [email protected]

Project Name: Lick Run Project - Chancellorsville, VA Project Name: Maryland Conservation Partnership Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland Summary: After a year-long struggle to prevent the upzoning Summary: NRCS provided technical expertise and project of land connected with the 1863 battle of management to the Navy and conservation partners Chancellorsville, preservation groups joined forces to restore eroding shoreline and wetlands in the with local government to create a battleﬁeld park. Chesapeake Bay. Website: www.chancellorsville.org Contact: Virginia (Ginger) L. Murphy, State Conservationist, Contact: Jim Campi, Policy and Communications Director, USDA-NRCS, 410-757-0861, Civil War Preservation Trust, 202-367-1861, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Living Learning Collaborative Project Name: Merrymeeting Bay/Lower Kennebec Partnership Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Summary: Education that brings out the greatness in each of Summary: The partnership seeks to restore and/or maintain us in harmony with Life on Earth sustainable ﬁsh and wildlife populations in lower Contact: Mary Beth Merritt, Director, (413) 528-4262 x12345, Kennebec through acquisition of title or easement [email protected] from willing private landowners. Contact: Will Brun, Director of Land Protection, The Nature Conservancy, 207-729-5182 x207, [email protected]

Project Name: Local Fisheries Knowledge Pilot Project Project Name: Mill Creek Watershed Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Summary: Students explore the connections between ﬁsheries, Summary: The Mill Creek Watershed Project works with local the marine environment, their communities and governments, agencies, farmers and citizens to their own lives while creating intergenerational improve water quality, streamside habitat and collaborative partnerships. stormwater issues. Website: www.st.nmfs.gov/lfkproject Website: www.millcreekwatershed.org Contact: Julie Bartsch, Northeast Regional Coordinator, Contact: Mike Lovegreen, District Manager, Bradford County Rural School and Community Trust, 978-779-0047, Conservation District, Stoll Natural Resources [email protected] Center, 570-265-5539, [email protected]

Project Name: Lower Bronx River—A Community-Led Restoration Project Name: Milton Preserve Initiative Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: This land donation protects 75 acres of mixed Summary: With many partners, the Bronx River Alliance re- hardwood-conifer forest, and open ﬁeld, and a established salt marshes and created parkland at pond in Galway, New York. the site of an abandoned concrete plant. Website: www.saratogaplan.org Website: www.bronxriver.org Contact: Alane Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga PLAN, Contact: Linda R. Cox, Executive Director, Bronx River 518-587-5554, [email protected] Alliance, 718-430-4668, [email protected]

178 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Nanticoke Watershed Initiative Project Name: New Gosport Landfill Site Restoration Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Summary: The Conservation Fund developed a vision for Summary: 5500 tons of abrasive blast material and used sand protecting and interpreting the natural, cultural blasting grit were disposed of to restore the area and recreational resources of the Nanticoke to a functional component of the Paradise Creek Watershed. Watershed. Website: www.conservationfund.org Contact: Marjorie Mayfield, Elizabeth River Project, Contact: Keith O’Connor, Associate, The Conservation Fund, 757-399-7487, mmayfi[email protected] 703-525-6300, [email protected]

Project Name: Nanty Glo Environmental Restoration Project Name: New York City Watershed Protection and Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Partnership Council Summary: This project treats mine discharge water via a Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York passive treatment system composed of 2 vertical Summary: Protection of a water system supplying 9 million ﬂow ponds and a wetland. people requires close cooperation of government Website: www.lrp.usace.army.mil/pm/fact_sheet/pfs_cg_ and non-government stakeholders and numerous nantyglo.pdf watershed programs Contact: Kathleen J. Anderson, Project Manager, U.S. Army Website: www.dos.state.ny.us/watershed/wppc.htm Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District, Contact: William C. Harding, Executive Director, New York 412-395-7178, [email protected] City Watershed Protection and Partnership Council, 914-734-1347, [email protected]

Project Name: Narragansett Bay Project Name: Next Generation National Parks: Boston Harbor Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island Island and Cedar Creek and Belle Grove Summary: A partnership approach for addressing the Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts degradation of eelgrass beds in Narragansett Summary: Boston Harbor Island National Park Area and Cedar Bay, by restoring eelgrass habitat using multiple Creek & Belle Grove NHP, illustrate how parks can planting methods. be successfully managed collaboratively by the Contact: Andrew Lipsky, Biologist, USDA NRCS, 401.822.8842, federal, state, local and non-proﬁt sectors. [email protected] Contact: George Price, Superintendent, Boston Harbor Island National Park Area, National Park Service, 617-223-8667, [email protected]

Project Name: Natural Seaside Landscapes for Migratory Birds Project Name: Nicatous Lake Project Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Summary: Partnership is working to enhance economic Summary: Conserving, in perpetuity, economic, ecological, conditions for local citizens through exploitation of and recreational values to ensure ongoing beneﬁts unique eco-tourism opportunities, while improving of sustainable forestry, water quality, wildlife, and the quality of habitat for migratory birds. recreational pursuits. Contact: Bridgett Estel Costanzo, Partners for Fish and Website: www.fsmaine.org Wildlife Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Contact: Alan Hutchinson, Executive Director, Forest Society 804-693-6694 x 125, [email protected] of Maine, 207-945-9200, [email protected]

Project Name: Navy/Atlantic Wood Industries Joint Restoration Project Name: North Fork Potomac Watershed Approach Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: West Virginia Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Summary: Landowners, environmentalists, universities, and Summary: Removed/disposed of 45,000 tons of calcium government agencies worked together to restore hydroxide and abrasive blast material from Potomac River water quality by reducing polluted a lagoon adjacent to the Elizabeth River and runoff from beef and poultry farms. established 1.3 acres of saltmarsh. Website: www.wvca.us Contact: Tim Reisch, Team Leader, Naval Facilities Contact: John Wagoner, Chairman, Potomac Valley Engineering Command, 757-322-4758 Construction District, 304-822-5174, www.wvca.us

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 179 Project Name: Norwalk River Watershed Initiative Project Name: Page County Water Quality Advisory Committee Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Connecticut, New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Summary: The Norwalk River Watershed Initiative is restoring Summary: Active committee comprised of local stakeholders the Norwalk watershed by improving water quality, formed to advise elected ofﬁcials on water quality habitat, and ﬂood management through local issues, both surface water and groundwater decision making. Website: www.pagewaterquality.org Website: www.norwalkriver.org Contact: Chris Anderson, Environmental Coordinator, Page Contact: Walter Smith, Water Quality Coordinator, USDA, County Dept. of Environmental Services, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 540-743-4808, [email protected] 860-871-4040, [email protected]

Project Name: NYC Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Project Name: Passaic River Restoration Project Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey Summary: New York City, USDA, agricultural producers, and Summary: The PRRP is a cooperative effort among four others address non-point source pollution through Federal and two State agencies, NGOs and the voluntary programs that protect stream corridors private sector to restore the environmental values and working lands. of the highly urbanized lower Passaic River in New Website: www.nycwatershed.org/lc_crep.html Jersey. Contact: Larry Beckhardt, Program Director, NYC Department Website: www.ourpassaic.org of Environmental Protection, 718-595-4139, Contact: Jonathan P. Deason, Ph.D., Professor, The [email protected] George Washington University, 202-994-4827, [email protected]

Project Name: Octoraro Creek Watershed Restoration and Project Name: Penobscot River Restoration Project Protection Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania, Summary: Project removed barriers to migration of Atlantic Southeastern: Florida salmon and other ﬁsh on Maine’s Penobscot River Summary: Restoration project focuses on wetlands and while maintaining energy generating capacity. streams owned by Older Order Amish, and assists Website: www.penobscotriver.org these watershed stakeholders through educational Contact: Laura Rose Day, Executive Director, Penobscot River outreach to create sustainble farms and farm Restoration Trust, (207) 232-5976, practices. [email protected] Website: www.owanet.com Contact: Pat Fasano, Secretary, Octararo Creek Watershed Association, 717-529-2132, [email protected]

Project Name: Old Inlet Terrapin Habitat Enhancement Project Project Name: People, Land and Streams of the Upper Thornton Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Delaware River Watershed Summary: The goal of the Old Inlet Terrapin Habitat Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Enhancement Project is to restore nesting habitat Summary: Local volunteers, land owners work with NRCS, for the Northern Diamond-backed Terrapin Nat’l Park Service, Virginia agencies to preserve & (Malaclemys terrapin terrapin). protect headwaters streams of the Chesapeake Bay Website: www.coastalamerica.gov Basin. Contact: MQ Riding, Director of Communications, Conectiv Website: www.rappﬂow.org Energy, 302-451-5528, [email protected] Contact: Beverly Hunter, Coordinator, RappFLOW: Rappahannock Friends & Lovers of Our Watershed, 540 937-4038, mail@rappﬂow.org

Project Name: Ontario Dune Coalition Project Name: Performance Based Cleanup Initiative Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC Summary: TODC provides technical, educational, and Summary: Andrews AFB and state and local agencies use a clearinghouse services to its member organizations, performance-based strategy to reduce costs and property owners and public ofﬁcials in matters expedite cleanup of contaminated areas on and addressing the Eastern Lake Ontario Dunes. near the base. Website: www.nysgdunes.org/dune/dune.html Contact: Mr. Rick Grills, Maryland Dept. of the Environment, Contact: John DeHollander, District Manager, Oswego 410-537-3398, [email protected] County Soil and Water Conservation District, 315.592.9663, [email protected]

180 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Perpetual Conservation of Historic Miantonomi Project Name: Potomac Watershed Partnership Park in Rhode Island Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island Virginia Summary: Miantonomi Park, once the seat of power for the Summary: PWP has reforested or otherwise improved Narragansetts and today a safe haven for song approximately 20,000 acres of land, involving birds and people, has been permanently conserved the efforts of thousands of volunteers, while by a 29-acre conservation easement with ALT. emphasizing educational programs. Website: www.aquidnecklandtrust.org Contact: Mark Moszak, Director, Potomac Watershed Contact: Edward S. Clement, Jr., Esq., Executive Director, Partnership, 301-608-1188 x209, Aquidneck Land Trust, 401 849 2799 x 12, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Perpetual Protection of 483 Acres of Aquidneck Project Name: Preservation of Escobar’s Highland Farm, One of Island Drinking Water Reservoirs the Last Dairy Farms in Rhode Island Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island Summary: ALT secured a 483-acre conservation agreement Summary: ALT raised $3 million to secure a 75-acre from the Town of Portsmouth and City of Newport conservation agreement to protect Escobor’s farm on the Island’s drinking water reservoirs, adding a on Aquidneck Island. Critical partners: USDA-NRCS, critical layer of perpetual protection. State of Rhode Island, & Town of Portsmouth. Website: www.aquidnecklandtrust.org Website: www.aquidnecklandtrust.org Contact: Edward S. Clement, Jr., Esq., Executive Director, Contact: Edward S. Clement, Jr., Esq., Executive Director, Aquidneck Land Trust, 401-849-2799 x12, Aquidneck Land Trust, 401-849-2799 x12, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Philadelphia Vacant Land Management and Project Name: Protecting New Jersey’s Sourland Region Reclamation Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Summary: D&R Greenway Land Trust and multiple partners Summary: A “clean and green” approach to remove blight, have protected over 3,500 acres of habitat and attract new residents, and attract investment to natural resources in central New Jersey’s Sourlands urban, vacant land in Philadelphia. region – with more preservation projects to come. Website: www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/phlgreen/ Website: www.drgreenway.org ui_reclaimvacantlots.html Contact: Linda J. Mead, Executive Director, D&R Greenway Contact: Mike Groman, Senior Director of Philadelphia Land Trust, 609-924-4646, [email protected] Green, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 215-988-8891, [email protected]

Project Name: Phragmites Control on the Rappahannock River Project Name: Public-Private Partnerships to Promote Conserva- Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia tion and Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources Summary: For the sixth consecutive year, landowner and Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Connecticut, Wash- refuge volunteer, Alice Wellford, has led a private/ ington, DC, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, public partnership to control invasive populations Maine, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV of Phragmites on the Rappahannock River. Summary: Provides ﬁnancial and technical assistance at the Contact: Joe McCauley, Refuge Manager, Rappahannock local and regional level for priority conservation River Valley NWR, 804-333-1470, projects such as coastal habitat restoration. [email protected] Website: www.nfwf.org Contact: Tom Kelsch, Director, Eastern Region, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, 202-857-0166, [email protected]

Project Name: Pingree Forest Partnership Project Name: Quabbin to Cardigan Collaborative Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire Summary: A landscape level conservation easement created Summary: The Quabbin to Cardigan Collaborative is a multi- to sustain working forests while protecting forest state, public/private effort to protect and connect resources for wildlife, ﬁsheries, migratory birds, and large unfragmented forests in the Monadnock local economies. Highlands of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Website: www.newenglandforestry.org/projects/pingree.asp Website: www.forestsociety.org/landconservation/q2c.asp Contact: Frank Reed, Sr. Project Specialist, New England Contact: Chris Wells, Coordinator, Q2C Collaborative, Society Forestry Foundation, (802) 728-3163, for the Protection of NH Forests, (603) 224-9945, [email protected] [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 181 Project Name: Regional Restoration Initiative Project Name: Round Ball Mountain Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia, South-Central/ Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York South-West: Louisiana, Texas, Southeastern: Summary: The Conservancy will acquire Round Ball Mountain Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North and manage it for wildlife habitat, public Carolina, South Carolina recreation, and as an outdoor classroom. Summary: The Longleaf Alliance serves as a clearinghouse for Website: www.clctrust.org information on pine forests and as a catalyst for Contact: Marissa Codey, Project Manager, Columbia Land activities among its various partners in this effort. Conservancy, 518-392-5252, [email protected] Website: www.longleafalliance.org Contact: Dean Gjerstad, Co-Director, The Longleaf Alliance, 334-844-1020, [email protected]

Project Name: Reilly Ridge Farm Project Name: Sandy Neck/ Great Marsh Land Conservation Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts Summary: With the help of the Town of Halfmoon, this Summary: By 2005, a partnership of government and non- 50 acre family farm, in use since 1909, preserves proﬁt partners formed in 2003 had added over beautiful ﬁelds, views, wetlands, forests and land 120 newly protected acres to the Sandy Neck/Great on either side of the county trail system. Marsh Conservation Area on Cape Cod. Website: www.saratogaplan.org Contact: Robb Johnson, Land Protection Specialist, Contact: Alane Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga PLAN, The Nature Conservancy, 617-227-7017 x 305, 518-587-5554, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Restoration Project at Alamatong Wellﬁeld in Project Name: Saratoga Apple Orchard Morris County Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey Summary: This project preserves some of the best agricultural Summary: Partners target removal of invasive Russian olive soils in NY, saves spectacular landscapes and views, shrub on 600-acre wellﬁeld, a primary water source and preserves a beautiful entryway to the historic for over 470,000 Morris County residents and villages of Schuylerville and Victory. habitat for a variety of birds and insects. Website: www.saratogaplan.org Website: www.mcmua.com/Water/WaterConservationAdoptt Contact: Alane Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga PLAN, heAlamatong.htm 518-587-5554, [email protected] Contact: David Smart, State Resource Conservationist, USDA- NRCS, 732-537-6051, [email protected]

Project Name: Restoring Bog Turtle Habitat in New York Project Name: Saratoga Development and Conservation Project Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: Federal, state, and NGO partners are working Summary: The goal of the project was to utilize the together with private landowners to restore the conservation subdivision technique in a manner wetland habitat of the threatened bog turtle. that preserves land for farming, scenic vistas, and Website: www.backfromthebrink.org/specieslearnabout. open space for recreational trails and wildlife cfm?animal_id=1 corridors. Contact: Bruce Hammond, Project manager/Scientist, Contact: Lisa Nagle, Principal, Elan Planning & Design, Environmental Defense, 617 723 2996, 518-306-3702, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Revegetation Project at Cape May National Wildlife Project Name: Saratoga Lake Preserve Refuge Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey Summary: This project ensures a stretch of shoreline remains Summary: Study to evaluate cost-effective direct seeding unspoiled and protects wetlands, hardwood forests, techniques for restoring severely degraded site and riparian habitats. at former Coast Guard base into quality wildlife Website: www.saratogaplan.org habitat along the Atlantic Flyway in New Jersey. Contact: Alane Ball Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga Contact: David Smart, State Resource Conservationist, USDA- PLAN, 518-587-5554, [email protected] NRCS, 732-537-6051, [email protected]

182 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Saving the Natural and Working Landscape in Project Name: Shenandoah Valley Regional Water Resources Kennebec and Waldo Counties Policy Committee Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia, West Virginia Summary: Local, state & federal partners target protection of Summary: Minimum Instream Flow (MIF) modeling led to prime farmlands located upland of a 40,000-acre development of a draft “Low Flow/Drought Onset forest & wetland landscape to conserve rare & Agreement” for the multi-state Shenandoah Valley endangered terrestrial, aquatic and plant species. Regional Water Resources Policy Committee. Website: www.mltn.org Website: www.cnr.vt.edu/ﬁsheries/North_Fork_Shenandoah/ Contact: LouAnna Perkins, Executive Director, Maine NFS_home.htm Farmland Trust, 207-469-6465, Contact: Tom Christoffel, Senior Planner, Northern [email protected] Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission, 540-636-8800x209, [email protected]

Project Name: Sawdust Remediation to Protect Endangered Project Name: Shoreline Stabilization in Chesapeake Bay Area Species Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Summary: A partnership to stop shoreline erosion at Summary: Partners work to remediate the enormous sawdust Patuxent River Naval Air Station is meeting Navy waste problem in the sensitive karst area in Lee facility needs while advancing the restoration of County, Virginia. Chesapeake Bay. Contact: Shane Hanlon, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish Contact: Mark Rose, Coordinator, Southern Maryland and Wildlife Service, (276) 623-1233 x 25, Resource Conservation and Development Board, [email protected] 443-482-2910, [email protected]

Project Name: Scarborough Marsh Wetland Reserve Project Project Name: Skaneateles Lake Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: The 3,100-acre Scarborough Marsh Wildlife Summary: The City of Syracuse established the Skaneateles Management area, Maine’s largest and most Lake Watershed Agricultural Program (SLWAP) in renowned salt marsh, is being restored in a 5- 1994, as an alternative to a costly ﬁltration system phased project, eliminating restrictions of natural required by the Safe Drinking Water Act. tidal ﬂows. Contact: Kristen Pelhan Skopeck, Public Affairs Specialist, Website: www.scarboroughmaine.com/marsh/ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Contact: Susan Wilder, Friends of Scarborough Marsh, (315) 477-6524, [email protected] 207-883-6050, [email protected]

Project Name: Schuylkill Action Network Project Name: Spring Run Trail Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: A partnership of local watershed organizations, Summary: Spring Run Trail offers safe off-road access to city water suppliers, local, state and federal agencies recreational amenities and natural areas, recreating successfully transcends jurisdictional boundaries to a “woodland path” that existed in the Spring Run implement water protection measures. Valley for much of the 1800s. Website: www.schuylkillactionnetwork.org/ Website: www.saratogaplan.org Contact: Chris Crockett, Manager-Watershed Protection, Contact: Alane Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga PLAN, Philadelphia Water Department, 215-685-6234, 518-587-5554, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic Project Name: Sterling Forest District Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Summary: Headwaters to Sterling Falls Gorge protected by Summary: Public & private partners at all levels collaborating 2,150-acre land purchase by Friends of Sterling to protect, interpret & promote the Shenandoah Valley and the Sterling Falls Gorge Natural Area Valley Battlefields National Historic District, a Trust. congressionally-designated National Heritage Area. Contact: Gar Anderson, (802) 253-9035, Website: www.ShenandoahAtWar.org [email protected] Contact: Howard Kittell, Executive Director, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, 540-740-4545, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 183 Project Name: Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Project Name: University of Massachusetts Nantucket Field Sta- Habitat Restoration tion Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts Summary: The Friends of Supawna Meadows NWR are Summary: A public/nonprofit partnership through a $20M pur- cooperating with partners to control invasive chase to safeguard the only higher education re- plants on the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife search/education facility on the island. The 110 acre Refuge. parcel embraces rare coastal and upland resources. Website: www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=52571 Website: www.nantucketconservation.com/info_files/infor- Contact: Linda Chorba Ziemba, Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish mation/umass.html and Wildlife Service, (856) 935-1487, Contact: Jim Lentowski, Executive Director, Nantucket Con- [email protected] servation Foundation, Inc., 508-228-2884, [email protected]

Project Name: Thirteen Mile Woods Project Name: Upper Valley Trails for Life Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont Summary: Conservation easements on 5,316 acres in northern Summary: With Robt. Wood Johnson Foundation funds, Upper New Hampshire were acquired for recreation and Valley Trails Alliance & National Park Service are forestry purposes. promoting physical activity in four towns by using Website: www.tpl.org trails and doctors’ “prescriptions for walking.” Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust Website: www.uvtrails.org/albd.html for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] Contact: Lelia Mellen, RTCA Vermont Field Ofﬁce, National Park Service, (802) 457-3368, ext 14, [email protected]

Project Name: Trout Pond Project Name: USDA, NRCS Partners with U.S. Army in New Jersey Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey Summary: Partners are working to protect 2,600 acres Summary: Fort Dix and USDA, Natural Resources Conservation surrounding Trout Pond near the New Hampshire- Service have partnered for eight years to protect Maine border. water quality at an active military training base. Website: www.tpl.org Contact: David Smart, State Resource Conservationist, USDA, Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust Natural Resources Conservation Service, for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] 732-537-6051, [email protected]

Project Name: Tucquan Glen Nature Preserve Project Name: Vermont Family Forests Community Forests Project Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont Summary: The Conservancy, landowners, donors, foundations Summary: The Vermont Family Forests Partnership has created and government agencies permanently protected The Little Hogback Community Forest LLC, made up this 500 acre rhododendron-canopied ravine, for of 16 area residents who will collectively own and wildlife and people, over 2 decades. manage a 115-acre, conserved forest in VT. Website: www.lancasterconservancy.org Website: www.familyforests.org Contact: Jennifer Johnson, Director, Marketing Contact: Deb Brighton, Project Leader, Vermont Family Communications, The Lancaster County Forests, 802-453-7728, [email protected] Conservancy, 717.392.7891, [email protected]

Project Name: UNH Stormwater Center Project Name: Vienna Community Vision Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Hampshire Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland Summary: This project cooperatively tests designs to achieve Summary: The Conservation Fund engaged with the Town stormwater treatment and volume reduction. of Vienna to develop a Community Vision Plan Website: www.unh.edu/erg/cstev/ in anticipation of the 5-year update of their Contact: Robert Roseen, Director, The UNH Stormwater Community Comprehensive Plan. Center, 603-862-4024, [email protected] Website: www.conservationfund.org Contact: Keith O’Connor, Associate, The Conservation Fund, 703-525-6300, [email protected]

184 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Virginia’s Middle Fork Holston River Project Name: West Milton Preserve Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: Watershed plan is being successfully implemented Summary: This conservation easement will protect riparian by local partnerships to reduce fecal bacterial and upland habitat along the Kayaderosseras Creek loadings from livestock access to streams, and and will secure public ﬁshing access. failing or inadequate on-site sewage disposal Website: www.saratogaplan.org systems. Contact: Alane Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga P.L.A.N., Website: www.nacdnet.org/govtaff/tmdl/CSAbingdonVA.htm 518-587-5554, [email protected] Contact: Anthony Summitt, Project Ofﬁcer, Holston River Soil & Water Conservation District, 276-628-8187, [email protected]

Project Name: Washington’s Crossing Project Name: Willow Living Snow Fence Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: Near the very banks where George Washington Summary: Willow living snow fences effectively trap drifting launched his nation-deﬁning attack, an 80,000- and blowing snow. They reduce vehicular accidents square-foot shopping plaza was planned. and consumption of winter resources, beautify the Website: conserveland.org/stories/washc1 countryside and increase biodiversity. Contact: Dennis Collins, Senior Advisor, Wildlands Website: www.esf.edu/willow Conservancy, 610-965-4397 x19, Contact: Mary Brophy, Environmental Specialist II, NYS DOT, [email protected] 607-721-8138, [email protected]

Project Name: Waste Solutions Forum Project Name: Wind Road Farms Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York Summary: Waste Solutions Forum brought together key Summary: Adjacent to another protected property, this project stakeholders to assemble an action plan for protects historic agricultural lands, and a signiﬁcant implementing environmentally and economically portion of an extensive wetland system. viable solutions for excess animal waste in the Website: www.saratogaplan.org Shenandoah Valley. Contact: Alane Ball Chinian, Executive Director, Saratoga Website: www.agnr.umd.edu/users/waterqual/VAwaste.doc PLAN, 518-587-5554, [email protected] Contact: Kathy Holm, Coordinator, Shenandoah RC&D, U.S. Department of Agriculture, (540) 248-3321, [email protected]

Project Name: Water Reservoir Project Project Name: Windbreak and Air Quality Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Rhode Island Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Summary: The Aquidneck Land Trust signed an agreement Summary: Demonstration sites have been created in to conserve its largest property to date Pennsylvania to evaluate the effects of windbreaks — approximately 483 acres in Portsmouth that on odors coming from poultry, dairy and swine includes three of Aquidneck Island’s public water operations. reservoirs. Contact: Richard Shockey, Resource Conservationist, Natural Website: www.AquidneckLandTrust.org Resources Conservation Service, 717-237-2217, Contact: Edward Clement, Executive Director, Aquidneck [email protected] Land Trust, 401-849-2799, [email protected]

Project Name: West Branch Project, Maine Project Name: Wissahickon Creek Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania Summary: To conserve the largest contiguous tract of land Summary: The Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association’s ever protected in Maine – 329,000 acres through a preserve provides open space, scenic beauty, public-private partnership. wildlife habitat and a trail linking communities Website: www.fsmaine.org from northern Montgomery County to Philadelphia. Contact: Alan Hutchinson, Executive Director, Forest Society Website: conserveland.org/stories/rbg1 of Maine, 207-945-9200, [email protected] Contact: Nicole Faraguna, Wissahickon Valley Watershed Assn, (215) 646-8866, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 185 Project Name: Arnold Air Force Base Conservation Core Team Southeast Region Location: Southeastern: Tennessee Summary: A Conservation Core Team initiated by Arnold AFB is helping restore and protect listed species and important habitat on Tennessee’s southeastern Highland Rim. Contact: Sally Rollins Palmer, Science Program Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy, 931-840-8881, [email protected]

Project Name: Abacoa New Town Project Name: Atlantic Station Redevelopment Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Georgia Summary: Abacoa is a 2000-acre new town based on neo- Summary: Innovative Smart Growth practices alleviate air traditional town planning principles, being built on pollution and foster development that combats land originally owned by the John D. and Catherine sprawl and supports economic development. T. MacArthur Foundation. Website: www.atlanticstation.com/concept_greenstar.php Website: www.conservationfund.org Contact: Brian Leary, Vice President, Design & Contact: Kendra Briechle, Manager Center for Conservation Development, Atlantic Station, LLC, 404-876-2616, and Development, The Conservation Fund, [email protected] 703-525-6300, [email protected]

Project Name: ACE Basin Project Project Name: Bartow County Environmental Management Location: Southeastern: South Carolina System Summary: The ACE Basin Project is widely recognized as one Location: Southeastern: Georgia of the most successful public/private partnerships in Summary: Local partnerships develop and implement multiple ecosystem based conservation. Environmental Management Systems, coordinated Contact: Dean Harrigal, Wildlife Biologist, South Carolina county-wide, to signiﬁcantly reduce pollution. Dept. of Natural Resources, (843) 844-8957, Website: www.bartowga.org [email protected] Contact: Clarence Brown, Sole Commissioner, Bartow County, 770-387-5030, [email protected]

Project Name: Agency on Bay Management Project Name: Biscayne Bay Regional Restoration Coordination Location: Southeastern: Florida Team Summary: The Agency on Bay Management (ABM) is a 20-year Location: Southeastern: Florida collaboration of resource stakeholders focused on Summary: The Biscayne Bay Regional Restoration Coordination the wise management of Tampa Bay. Team (BBRRCT) was formed to protect, improve, Website: www.tbrpc.org/abm/default.htm and enhance Biscayne Bay’s social, economic and Contact: Suzanne Cooper, Principal Planner, Tampa Bay natural resources. Regional Planning Council, 727-570-5151 x 32, Website: www.ﬂashresolutions.com/projects.htm#bbrrct [email protected] Contact: Janice Fleischer, Biscayne Bay Regional Restoration Coordination Team, (786) 268-2596, janice@ﬂashresolutions.com

Project Name: Alabama Cave Shrimp Project Name: Caguitas River Buffer Restoration Location: Southeastern: Alabama Location: Southeastern: Puerto Rico Summary: A diverse array of stakeholders rallies to protect a Summary: A partnership with many agencies, including cave-dwelling endangered species smaller than a Housing and Urban Development, for restoration of U.S. penny. approximately 1.5 miles of river buffer zone along Contact: Daniel J. Dunn, Cultural and Natural Resources the Caguitas river. Branch Chief, Environmental Management Division, Contact: Silmarie Padron, Private Lands Coordinator, US Fish Redstone Arsenal. U.S. Army, 256-876-4572, and Wildlife Service, 787-851-7297, [email protected] [email protected]

186 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Callaway Conservation Project Name: Conserving Georgia’s Dwindling Farmland Location: Southeastern: Georgia Location: Southeastern: Georgia Summary: The Ida Cason Calloway Foundation protected 2,507 Summary: The Athens Land Trust and the Oconee Partnership acres of forest. Forest restoration, education and for Farmland Protection worked to place a recreation activities continue under the terms of conservation easement on a portion of the the conservation easement. Breedlove-Powers Farm in rapidly-developing Website: www.callawaygardens.com/development/iccf.htm Oconee County, Georgia. Contact: Buford Sanders, Forest Legacy Coordinator, Georgia Contact: John Kissane, Conservation Director, Athens Land Forestry Commission, 706-542-9939, Trust, 706.613.0122, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Catawba River Streambank Conservation Project Name: Cool Springs, NC Easements Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: Over 2,500 of diverse forested wetland acres, Summary: An unprecedented, voluntary effort by Crescent located along the Neuse River ﬂoodplain and Resources, LLC is protecting nearly 200 miles of owned by forest industry, will remain forested stream banks in North Carolina and South Carolina. forever. Website: www.duke-energy.com/news/releases/2001/ Website: www.dfr.state.nc.us/tending/tending_ may/2001052303.html legacyoverview.htm Contact: Kathryn Blanchard, Crescent Resources, LLC, Contact: Dr. Mark Megalos, Forest Stewardship, North 7043763434, [email protected] Carolina Division of Forest Resources, 919-733-2162, [email protected]

Project Name: Cecil Field Naval Air Station Cleanup Project Name: Cromer Ridge OHV Management: Daniel Boone NF Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Kentucky Summary: Timely investigation and cleanup of BRAC facilities Summary: Collaborative effort to rectify unregulated OHV use supports reuse consistent with the economic in a watershed. redevelopment plans of local governments. Website: www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/ohv Website: www.dep.state.ﬂ.us Contact: Jerry Ingersoll, OHV Program Leader, USDA Forest Contact: David P. Gragke, Florida Department of Service, 202-205-0869, [email protected] Environmental Protection, 850-245-8997, [email protected].ﬂ.us

Project Name: Collaborative Effort to Preserve Kentucky’s Project Name: Culebra Habitat Restoration Project Bluegrass Region Location: Southeastern: Puerto Rico Location: Southeastern: Kentucky Summary: The Culebra Mayor is working with U.S. Fish and Summary: Bluegrass Conservancy and its partners are working Wildlife Service Partners Program on mangrove to protect the rolling farmland, limestone rich soil, restoration and using Housing and Urban and scenic cultural beauty of the internationally Develpment funds to restore downtown sea side recognized Bluegrass landscape. areas. Website: www.bluegrassconservancy.org Contact: Silmarie Padron, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Contact: Tim DeWitt, Executive Director, Bluegrass Program Coordinator, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Conservancy, (859) 255-4552, 787-851-7297, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Compatible Use Buffer Program Project Name: Data Verifies BMPs Improve Water Quality Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Alabama Summary: Florida agencies and groups worked with Camp Summary: Partners gathered data to prove that installed BMPs Blanding to create buffer zones to stem Base have a positive impact on water quality – 92% encroachment and provide open space for bedload sediment reduction; 75% nitrate reduction. conservation. Website: www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/ Website: aec.army.mil/usaec/natural/natural03a.html 99rept319/index_files/alabama.pdf Contact: Mollie Glover Palmer, Deputy Chief of Staff, Contact: Marlon Cook, Geological Survey of Alabama, Office of the Secretary, Florida Department of 205-349-2852, [email protected] Environmental Protection, 850-245-2011, [email protected].fl.us

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 187 Project Name: Disney Wilderness Preserve Partnership Project Name: Enid Lake Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Mississippi Summary: An innovative partnership to restore and protect Summary: The SWMA is a project to preserve a wetland natural wetland and upland communities affected habitat for plant, ﬁsh, and wildlife species, by past drainage operations, lumbering and cattle including endangered species, which are provided ranching. a protected environment for reproduction and Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ feeding. ﬂorida/preserves Website: www.mvk.usace.army.mil/lakes/enidlake/main. Contact: Robert Mindick, Education and Community php?page=mainContent Outreach Program Manager, The Nature Contact: Billy J. Samuels, Resource Manager, Corps of Conservancy, 407-935-0002, [email protected] Engineers, (662) 563-4571, [email protected]

Project Name: Duke Power’s Buck Steam Station Project WILD Site Project Name: Expanded State Park on Lake James, N.C. Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: Students in the Rowan-Salisbury North Carolina Summary: The Lake James State Park expansion, from its school system enjoy the beneﬁts of outdoor wildlife current 605 acres to more than 3,500 acres, will class sessions at Duke Power’s Buck Steam Station. bring jobs to the region and protect the area’s Contact: Norbert J. Zalme, Environmental Coordinator, Duke scenic beauty. Energy Corporation, 704- 645-2706, Contact: Kathryn Blanchard, 704-376-3434, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Ecosystem Enhancement Program Project Name: Ft. DeSoto Park Aquatic Habitat management Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: Florida Summary: A nationally recognized program for its efforts to Summary: Re-establishing circuitous ﬂow in back bays with restore, enhance and protect the environment and hydrologic crossings, slope, and littoral shelf foster responsible economic growth. revegetation leading to seagrass recovery and Website: www.nceep.net water quality improvements. Contact: Bill Gilmore, Director, Ecosystem Enhancement Website: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration Program, 919-715-1412, [email protected] Contact: Eric Fehrmann, Pinellas County, 727-464-4325, [email protected]

Project Name: Energy Grants to Agricultural Producers Project Name: Gopher Tortoise Conservation Bank Location: Southeastern: Mississippi Location: Southeastern: Alabama Summary: A partnership was formed to assist agricultural Summary: A conservation bank is helping to restore the producers in enhancing the economic viability of gopher tortoise, protect black pine snakes, and their poultry production facilities through improved ensure affordable house lots in Mobile County, energy efﬁciency. Alabama. Contact: Leslie Threadgill, Grower Relations Coordinator, Website: www.mawss.com/gopher.htm and www. Mississippi Poultry Association, 601-355-0248, environmentaldefense.org/article. [email protected] cfm?contentid=2665 Contact: Robert Bonnie, Managing Director, Center for Conservation Incentives, Environmental Defense, 202-387-3500, [email protected]

Project Name: EnergyXchange Renewable Energy Center Project Name: Great Allatoona Lake Cleanup Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: Georgia Summary: Today, decomposing garbage in the landﬁll fuels Summary: This is a long standing partnership involving pottery kilns, glass furnaces, and greenhouse at the protection of public lands in a rapidly developing EnergyXchange Renewable Energy Center. area that becomes model for lake cleanup’s across Website: www.energyxchange.org the nation. Contact: Stan Steury, RC&D Coordinator, Blue Ridge RC&D, Website: allatoona.sam.usace.army.mil/ (828) 297-5805, [email protected] Contact: Ginger Bjornson, Park Ranger, U.S.Army Corps of Engineers, 678-721-6729, [email protected]

188 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Project Name: International Paper Conservation Bank Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Georgia Summary: The Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Summary: Project has provided a win-win trade-off in land initiative puts in place the largest and most uses by allowing logging activities to continue on ambitious watershed recovery program in U.S. commercial forest lands while ensuring that habitat history. is maintained for the red-cockaded woodpecker. Website: www.soﬁa.usgs.gov and www.sfrestore.org Website: www.environmentaldefense.org/article. Contact: Martha N. Garcia, U.S. Geological Survey, cfm?contentid=2664 703 648-6960, [email protected] Contact: Michael Bean, Sr. Attorney, Ecosystems Program, Environmental Defense, 202-387-3500 ext 3312, [email protected]

Project Name: Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership (GCPEP) Project Name: Invasive Species Florida Strike Team Location: Southeastern: Alabama, Florida Location: Southeastern: Florida Summary: A partnership to protect and manage exceptional Summary: This public/private partnership is a team of biodiversity across the GCPEP landscape, while dedicated individuals and volunteers that meet remaining consistent with the partner’s individual monthly to kill invasive plant species on each others and diverse missions. lands. Website: nature.org Website: www.fws.gov/hobesound/ Contact: Vernon Compton, Project Director, The Nature Contact: Margo Stahl, Refuge Manager, US Fish and Wildlife Conservancy, 850-675-5760, [email protected] Service, 772-546-6141, [email protected]

Project Name: Gulf of Mexico Integrated Science in Tampa Bay Project Name: Jupiter Inlet Natural Area Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Florida Summary: Scientists collaborate across disciplines to acquire Summary: BLM works with federal, county, municipal, scientific data on Tampa Bay that will help educational and non-profit groups to manage a key managers conserve and protect its resources. regional landmark in northern Palm Beach County. Website: www.gulfsci.usgs.gov Contact: Richard Walesky, Director, Palm Beach County Contact: Holly Greening, Senior Scientist, Tampa Bay Estuary Environmental Resources Management, Program, 727-893-2765, [email protected] 561-233-2400, [email protected].fl.us

Project Name: Hacienda Pellejas Endangered Species Habitat Project Name: Key West Harbor Dredge Project Restoration Project Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Puerto Rico Summary: This project involves dredge and disposal operations Summary: Through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program within a highly sensitive environment, the Florida the landowner is restoring shade coffee and Keys National Marine Sanctuary. riparian buffers in his ranch for the beneﬁt of listed Contact: Audra Livergood, Resource Manager, NOAA species and migratory birds. Fisheries Habitat Conservation Division, Website: www.haciendapellejas.com 305-595-8352, [email protected] Contact: Silmarie Padron, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Coordinator, US Fish and Wildlife Service, 787-851-7297, [email protected]

Project Name: Hacienda Verde Shade Coffee Restoration Project in Project Name: Kings Mountain Gateway Puerto Rico Location: Southeastern: North Carolina, South Carolina Location: Southeastern: Puerto Rico Summary: Two State parks, towns, nonprofits and the Summary: The landowner restored the native shading canopy National Park Service built an 80 mile trail network of his coffee plantation for the benefit of native connecting King’s Mountain to State and local and endemic fish and wildlife, migratory birds, and parks, also improving visitors’ entrance experience. some endangered species. Website: www.nps.gov/rtca Website: www.haciendaverde.org/ Contact: Bill Lane, Landscape Architect, National Park Contact: Silmarie Padron, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Service, (404) 562-3175, [email protected] Coordinator, US Fish and Wildlife Service, 787-851-7297, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 189 Project Name: Land Conservation Works in Augusta, Georgia Project Name: Mississippi Wildlife and Grenada Lake Location: Southeastern: Georgia Location: Southeastern: Mississippi Summary: Through partnerships with governmental, private, Summary: This partnership has produced record fish, relocated corporate, and non-profit orgs, this partnership is overpopulated deer herds, managed disease building a successful land conservation movement outbreaks in fish and wildlife and increased acreage in Augusta, GA of waterfowl management. Website: www.csrlt.org Contact: Bubba Hubbard, Assistant Fish Chief, Mississippi Contact: Hazel Langrall, Stewardship Coordinator, Central Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, Savannah River Land Trust, (706) 312-5263, 601-432-2208, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Lathrop Bayou Habitat Management Area Project Name: Mitchell River Coalition Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: Partners work across public and private boundaries, Summary: The Mitchell River Coalition came together to to provide funding, resources and expertise to protect and improve the watershed and water manage intact long leaf forests. quality of the Mitchell River. Contact: Bruce Dawson, Jackson Field Manager, Contact: Dick Everhart, District Conservationist, USDA 601-977-5400, [email protected] Natural Resources Conservation Service, (336) 386-8751x3, [email protected]

Project Name: Longleaf Pine and Oak Planting Projects Project Name: Mountain Island Lake Water Quality Protection Location: Southeastern: Georgia Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: Partnership involves expansion of a longleaf pine Summary: This collaborative effort among landowners, county woodland in an urban area and reforestation of a government and Catawba Lands Conservancy former bottomland hardwood forest. conserved 500 acres to protect the source of Website: allatoona.sam.usace.army.mil/ drinking water for Charlotte and surrounding Contact: Terrell Stoves, Park Ranger/ Forester, U.S. Army communities. Corps of Engineers, 678-721-6735, Website: www.catawbalands.org [email protected] Contact: Davis J. Cable, Executive Director, Catawba Lands Conservancy, (704) 342-3330, [email protected]

Project Name: Longleaf Pine and Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Project Name: Muddy Creek Watershed Restoration Project - Recovery North Carolina Location: Southeastern: Georgia Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: Partners at Fort Benning are working to expand Summary: In 1998, Duke Power and the North Carolina longleaf pine stands to all upland pine sites and Wildlife Resources Commission formed a increase Red Cockaded Woodpecker breeding partnership with several organizations to address groups to 350. the sediment problem in the Muddy Creek North Contact: Mr. Wade C. Harrison, Chattahoochee Fall Line Carolina watershed. Project Director, The Nature Conservancy Fort Contact: Steven R. Johnson, Sr. Environmental Resource Benning Ofﬁce, 706-682-0104, [email protected] Manager, Duke Energy Corporation, 704-373-4391, [email protected]

Project Name: Mecklenburg County Ozone Reduction Action Project Name: NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program Program Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: A nationally recognized program for its efforts to Summary: Duke Energy is participating in a voluntary ozone restore, enhance and protect the environment and reduction action program to help reduce ozone foster responsible economic growth. forming air emissions in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Website: www.nceep.net during the “ozone season” months. Contact: Bill Gilmore, Director, NC Ecosystem Enhancement Contact: Mark E. Hollis, Director-Environmental Policy, Duke Program, 917-715-1412, [email protected] Power, 704-373-3726, [email protected]

190 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Neuse River Basin Cleanup Exceeds Goals Project Name: Northwest Florida Greenway Project Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: Florida Summary: In 1997, North Carolina adopted pollution controls Summary: Military, government and nonprofit organizations in the basin. The Neuse agricultural community partner to protect the Panhandle’s unique natural achieved a 42 percent nitrogen reduction, resources, economy, and military flyways. exceeding the 30 percent goal. Website: www.nature.org/florida Website: www.ncstormwater.org/worddocuments/ Contact: Debbie Keller, Northwest Florida Greenway Project NeuseSuccess2004.doc Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy, Florida Contact: Chrystal Bartlett, Stormwater Awareness & Chapter, 850-222-0199, [email protected] Outreach Coordinator, N.C. Dept. of Environment & Natural Resources, 919.715.4116, [email protected]

Project Name: New River Community Partners Project Name: Okhissa Lake Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: Mississippi Summary: New River Land Preservation Specialist Project funds Summary: Building an earthen dam for a 1,000-acre lake for a part-time professional dedicated to negotiating water and land recreation. the purchase of priority properties for addition to Website: www.fs.fed.us/r8/mississippi/homochitto/ New River State Park and other natural areas. Contact: Mary Bell Lunsford, Public Affairs Ofﬁcer, Website: www.nrcp.org Homochito National Forest, 1200 Hwy 184 East, Contact: Patrick N. Woodie, Executive Director, New River Meadville, MS 39653, 601-384-5876 Community Partners, Inc., 336-372-8118, ext. 22, [email protected]

Project Name: North Carolina Sandhills Conservation Partnership Project Name: Onslow Bight Conservation Forum Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: The Partnership is a cooperative effort to restore Summary: Regional collaboration across 9 counties on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker populations on military, Atlantic coastal plain to conserve saltwater marshes, state and private lands in the North Carolina long leaf savannahs, estuaries, wetlands, and Sandhills. pocosins. Contact: Mr. Rick Studenmund, Sandhills Project Director, Contact: Fred Annand, Director of Conservation, The Nature The Nature Conservancy, 910-246-0300, Conservancy, North Carolina Chapter, 919-403-8558, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Northeast Florida Islands Initiative Project Project Name: Palmetto Bluff Preservation Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: South Carolina Summary: Innovative cooperative agreements, strategic land Summary: More than one-third of the original 20,000 acres acquisition, and effective management strategies to at Crescent Resources’ Palmetto Bluff community conserve and create the largest urban park system in the S.C. lowcountry has been set aside in in the nation. perpetuity. Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ Website: www.palmetto-bluff.com ﬂorida/preserves/art10617.html Contact: Kathryn Blanchard, 704-376-3434, Contact: Hallie Stevens, St. Marys/Sea Islands Program [email protected] Director, The Nature Conservancy, 904-598-0004, [email protected]

Project Name: Northern Bobwhite Restoration in Middle and Project Name: Partners Help Farmers Get Funds to Address Western Tennessee Resource Concerns Location: Southeastern: Tennessee Location: Southeastern: Puerto Rico Summary: We are improving bobwhite nesting and brood Summary: Conservation partnership assisted coffee farmers to rearing habitat on private lands through Farm Bill adopt new conservation technology in the Coffee conservation programs and producer incentive Zone, Humid Upland Watersheds in Puerto Rico. payments. Contact: Miguel F. Monroig, Coffee Specialist, Cooperative Contact: Roger Wells, National Habitat Coordinator, Quail Extension Service, 787-834-4590, Unlimited, Inc., 620-443-5834, [email protected] [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 191 Project Name: Pine Mountain Georgia Project Name: Puerto Rican Crested Toad Recovery Project Location: Southeastern: Georgia Location: Southeastern: Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico Summary: The Ida Cason Callaway Foundation Preserve Summary: Partnership focuses on protection of current Puerto adjoins Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park with rare Rican crested toad populations against the ever- Montane Longleaf Pine. A conservation easement growing threat of habitat destruction. was sold to the state to maintain this land in forest Contact: Silmarie Padrón, Partners for Wildlife Coordinator, use. Puerto Rican Crested Toad Coordinator, U.S. Contact: LuAnn Craighton, Director of Land Stewardship. Ida Fish and Wildlife Service, 787-851-7297 ext. 241, Cason Callaway Foundation, Callaway Gardens, [email protected] 706-663-5192, [email protected]

Project Name: Preserving and Protecting the Environment of New Project Name: Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Programmatic Safe River Harbor Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Location: Southeastern: South Carolina Summary: Our project and mission is to restore the New River Summary: Safe Harbor agreement was established in South to an ecological and economically sound river for Carolina to address landowner concerns and to public and commercial use. provide sufﬁcient assurances to engage them in Website: co.onslow.nc.us/soil woodpecker habitat conservation. Contact: Bill Norris, Soil and Water Conservation Ofﬁcer, Contact: Michael Bean, Sr. Attorney, Ecosystems Program, Onslow County Soil and Water Conservation, Environmental Defense, 202-387-3500 ext. 3312, (910) 455-4472 ext. 3 [email protected]

Project Name: Project GreenShores Project Name: Restoring Shaded Coffee Plantations in Puerto Rico Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Puerto Rico Summary: Project Greenshores is a community-supported Summary: Project provides incentives and assistance to coffee oyster, saltmarsh and seagrass habitat restoration growers to return “sun” coffee plantations to project to replace estuarine habitat destroyed shade, improving environment and wildlife habitat. decades ago. Website: www.fws.gov/caribbean-ecoteam/shade_coffee_ Website: www.dep.state.fl.us/northwest/ecosys/section/ FS.pdf greenshores.htm Contact: Silmarie Padron, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Contact: Eric Schneider, Environmental Manager, Florida Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of Environmental Protection, 787-851-7297, [email protected] Northwest District Office, 850-595-8300, [email protected].fl.us

Project Name: Protecting Fish Habitat in SC Project Name: Rhyne Farm: Preserving the Past Location: Southeastern: South Carolina Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: A powerful coalition of private citizens and Summary: The 179-acre bicentennial Rhyne Farm has been federal, state, and local agencies, is restoring South farmed continuously for more than 200 years by Carolina’s rare trout waters. the same family. The landowners partnered with Contact: David Demarest, Foothills RC&D Coordinator, the Conservancy in 2001 to conserve it and their Foothills RC&D, 864-467-2775, heritage. [email protected] Website: www.catawbalands.org Contact: Davis J. Cable, Executive Director, Catawba Lands Conservancy, (704) 342-3330, [email protected]

Project Name: Protecting Iroquois “Hunt Country” – A Treasured Project Name: Roanoke Island Festival Park, NC Aquatic Habitat Natural Habitat in Central Kentucky Restoration and Protection Project Location: Southeastern: Kentucky Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: Bluegrass Conservancy and members of the Iroquois Summary: Using effective partnerships, we restored 5-acres Hunt Club are working to protect farmland within of marsh, seagrass, oysters, and maritime forest, the Iroquois hunting country; to date, 1,258 acres of opening new doors of cooperation between “Hunt Country” have been placed under easement. agencies and non-governmental organizations. Website: www.bluegrassconservancy.org Contact: Chuck Wilson, Ecosystem Restoration Coordinator, Contact: Tim DeWitt, Executive Director, Bluegrass US Army Corps of Engineers - Wilmington District, Conservancy, (859) 255-4552, 910-251-4746, [email protected] [email protected]

192 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Saint Croix Ground Lizard Habitat Restoration, Project Name: Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium Hotel on the Cay Partnership Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: Virgin Islands Summary: Collaborative group of local and state orgs Summary: In this Partners for Fish and Wildlife program develops Nitrogen Management Action Plan and project the FWS implemented a restoration and national model for public-private alliances to management plan for the protection and recovery reduce nitrogen in Tampa Bay Estuary. of the endangered ground lizard in St. Croix, USVI. Website: www.tbep.org/press/coastlin.html Website: www.fws.gov/caribbean-ecoteam/ Contact: Nanette Holland, Public Outreach Coordinator, Contact: Silmarie Padron, Partners for Fish and Wildlife Tampa Bay National Estuary Program, 813-893-2765, Coordinator, US Fish and Wildlife Service, [email protected] 787-851-7297, [email protected]

Project Name: South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Project Name: Tapoco Hydroelectric Project Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: North Carolina, Tennessee Summary: Governments, Tribes, NGO’s and others cooperate Summary: Historic legislation passed in October 2004 allowed to restore the Everglades while addressing relicensing of four Alcoa hydroelectric dams in water supply and ﬂood control needs of rapidly Tennessee and North Carolina and advanced the developing region. protection of nearly 10,000 acres of wilderness Website: www.sfrestore.org lands. Contact: Greg May, Ofﬁce of the Executive Director, South Website: www.alcoa.com/tapoco Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, Contact: Melissa Copelan, Community Relations Manager, 305-348-1665, [email protected] Alcoa Power Generating Inc., 815-977-3358, [email protected]

Project Name: Southern Appalachian Elk Restoration Project Name: Tara Wildlife Location: Southeastern: North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee Location: Southeastern: Mississippi Summary: Restoration of elk to its historic eastern range is Summary: Tara Wildlife, steward of 17,000 acres of underway in the southern Appalachians, with elk Mississippi River bottomland hardwoods, shares populations in Kentucky now exceeding 5,550. its management philosophy of sustainable natural Website: www.rmef.org/bugle/pages/05MA/appalachian_ resources with the public. 1.html Website: www.tarawildlife.com Contact: David Ledford, Southeast Initiative Program Contact: Gilbert Rose, Executive Director, Purvis Grange Director, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Foundation, Inc. d/b/a Tara Wildlife, (601)279-4261, 606-330-0179, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Stormwater Outreach & Awareness Coordinator - Project Name: Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve Tar-Pamlico Location: Southeastern: Florida Location: Southeastern: North Carolina Summary: Federal, state, and city agencies manage the Summary: Row crops and animal operations led to excessive 46,000-acre Timucuan Preserve and surrounding nutrients in the estuary. It was added to the state’s state and local parks as an integrated unit. 303(d) list for chlorophyll a. Website: www.nps.gov/timu/ Website: www.ncstormwater.org/worddocuments/ Contact: Robert Joseph, Park Manager, Talbot Island State tarpamlico_success_story.doc Parks, Florida State Park Service, 904-251-2320, Contact: Chrystal Bartlett, Stormwater Awareness & [email protected].ﬂ.us Outreach Coordinator, N.C. Department of Environment & Natural Resources - Public Affairs, 919.715.4116, [email protected]

Project Name: Suwannee River Partnership Project Name: Unicoi Turnpike Trail, a National Millennium Location: Southeastern: Florida Flagship Trail Summary: The Partnership is working with producers to Location: Southeastern: Tennessee improve river water quality through a voluntary Summary: A 2 1/2 mile hiking trail was restored on the program of Best Management Practices (BMP) and Cherokee NF near Coker Creek, TN of Monroe Co. veriﬁcation. This historic path was used for centuries by Spanish Website: mysuwanneeriver.com explorers, native Americans, and settlers. Contact: Darrell Smith, Partnership Coordinator, Florida Website: www.cokercreek.org Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Contact: Linda Caldwell, Director, Tennessee Overhill 386-362-1001, [email protected].ﬂ.us Heritage Association, Etowah, TN, (423) 263-7232, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 193 Project Name: Upper Coosawattee River Watershed Project Name: America’s Outdoors’ Urban Treehouse Location: Southeastern: Georgia Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Summary: 15 local, state, federal, and non-proﬁt groups Summary: America’s Outdoors has worked with Midtown form the Upper Coosawattee Alliance facilitates Neighborhood Association (MTNA) and other partnerships, identiﬁes funding, and coordinates partners in center city Milwaukee to establish the implementation activities to improve water quality. Urban Treehouse Conservation Education Program Contact: Larry Vanden Bosch, Director of Community and at Lynden Hill. Development Services, North Georgia Regional Contact: Mark Weaver, National Park Service, RTCA, Development Center, 706-272-2300, 414-297-3617, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Vulcan Materials Company Ruffner Mountain Project Name: Aquatic Nuisance Species Dispersal Barrier Project Nature Center Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Location: Southeastern: Alabama Summary: Implemented electric barrier in the Chicago Summary: Wildlife team creates a nature center on mountain Sanitary and Ship Canal to deter the inter-basin preserve providing students in Birmingham the transfer of invasive ﬁsh between the Great Lakes opportunity to reach new educational heights. and Mississippi River. Website: www.wildlifehc.org Contact: Gene Fleming, Chief, Environmental Formulation Contact: Vanessa Kauffman, Director of Marketing & and Analysis Section, Planning Branch, US Army Communications, Wildlife Habitat Council, Corps of Engineers, Chicago District, (312) 846-5585, 301-588-8994, [email protected] eugene.j.ﬂ[email protected]

Project Name: Winyah Bay Focus Area Project Name: Asian Long-horned Beetle Eradication Location: Southeastern: South Carolina Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois, Summary: Broad-based coalition is conserving South Carolina’s Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey, New York coastal Winyah Bay watershed by land acquisitions, Summary: A coordinated effort among agencies and citizens conservation easements, and wetland restoration. to control the spread of the Asian Long-horned Contact: Roger Banks, Chairman, Winyah Bay Focus Area Beetle and restore infested areas with tree Task Force, 843-768-4748, [email protected] plantings. Website: www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/alb/index.shtm and www. na.fs.fed.us/spfo/alb Contact: Joseph McCarthy, Senior City Forester, City of Chicago—Bureau of Forestry, 312-747-2098, [email protected]

Project Name: Assisting Agricultural Producers in Improving Water Midwest-Great Plains Region Quality Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Summary: Partners assist agricultural producers in improving water quality and provide education, technical assistance and ﬁnancial assistance to owners and operators of animal feeding operations. Website: www.conservewy.com/ Contact: Bobbie Frank, Executive Director, Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts, 307-632-5716, [email protected]

Project Name: Action Teams for the Environment Project Name: Baraboo River Cooperative Restoration Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Summary: The Action Team Project assists college students in Summary: Partners worked together to remove four aged, developing an awareness of environmental issues. unsafe, and uneconomical dams that blocked Students build the skills necessary to take action on ﬁsh movement, damaged water quality, and environmental/conservation issues. endangered river users on the 128 mile Baraboo Contact: Lynn Dominguez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, River mainstem. (989) 774-7305, [email protected] Website: www.sandcounty.net/programs/pioneering_ solutions/strategic_approach/ Contact: John W. Laub, Director, River/Floodplain Program, Sand County Foundation, (715) 588-3721, [email protected]

194 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Battle Creek River Watershed Project Project Name: Blackfoot Challenge Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Summary: The Battle Creek River Watershed Project is an Summary: A diverse array of partners coalesced around effort by landowners, residents, conservation watershed-wide, citizen-based efforts to protect a groups, and local, state, and federal agencies to river famous for its scenic and recreational values. protect the quality of water. Website: www.blackfootchallenge.org Website: calhouncd.org/bcriver.pdf Contact: Tina Bernd-Cohen, Executive Director, Blackfoot Contact: Kristine Boley-Morse, Project Coordinator, Calhoun Challenge, 406-793-3900, Conservation District, (269) 781-4867, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Bete Grise Preserve Project Name: Blue River Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana Summary: Partners raised funds and applied for grants to Summary: The Nature Conservancy is working closely with buy Bete Grise, a high quality dune swale wetland landowners in the the Blue River area of southern system. In 2004, two grants were awarded totaling Indiana to conserve and protect this area’s unique $1,450,000 for 1104 acres. and valued natural resources. Website: hkconserve.com Website: www.nature.org/indiana Contact: Sue Haralson, Administrator, Houghton Keweenaw Contact: Allen Pursell, Blue River Project Director, The Nature Conservation District, 906 482-0214, Conservancy, (812) 738-2087, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Beyer Bridge Riverbank Project Project Name: BP Wood River Reﬁnery Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Summary: To stabilize the riverbank, while increasing Summary: A former unusable industrial property in Illinois recreational usage by ﬁshermen and canoers is revitalized through efforts of multiple partners Contact: Janet Wendland, 4-H Program Associate, MSU- creating a redeveloped area and wildlife sanctuary. Extension 4-H Youth Programs, 989-758-2500, Website: www.wildlifehc.org [email protected] Contact: Vanessa Kauffman, Director of Marketing & Communications, Wildlife Habitat Council, 301-588-8994, [email protected]

Project Name: Big Hole Watershed Committee Project Name: Bridger-Teton National Forest Plan Revision Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Summary: The Committee provides an open, consensus-based Summary: The BTNF is starting its Plan Revision process under forum for effectively managing water resources of the 2005 NFMA Planning Rule, relying on public the 1.8 million-acre Big Hole River watershed. collaboration to produce a sound strategy to guide Website: www.bhwc.org the BTNF’s contribution to sustainability. Contact: Noorjahan Parwana, Executive Director, Big Website: www.fs.fed.us/r4/btnf Hole Watershed Committee, 406-782-3682, Contact: Herrick Fox, Forest Planner, Bridger-Teton National [email protected] Forest, (307) 739-5563, [email protected]

Project Name: Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project Project Name: Brown County Hills Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana Summary: BEMRP emphasizes the need to incorporate Summary: Working with private landowners, governments relevant research into knowledge about lands and businesses, the Conservancy works in the on landscape scales, focusing also on public Brown County Hills to balance the needs of participation and collaboration. a healthy forest with the region’s projected Contact: Greg Jones, Project Leader, USDA Forest Service, population growth. 406-542-4167, [email protected] Website: www.nature.org/indiana Contact: Dan Shaver, Project Director, The Nature Conservancy, (812) 933-0246, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 195 Project Name: Builders for the Bay Project Name: Casper, WY Refinery Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri, Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC, Summary: Dedicated citizens collaborated to spearhead the Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia design and implementation of an urban oil refinery Summary: A program aimed at reducing environmental clean-up for recreational and business use. impacts from developments within the Chesapeake Contact: Thomas O. Forslund, City Manager, 307-235-8224, Bay watershed through local code and ordinance [email protected] modification Website: www.buildersforthebay.net Contact: Rebecca Winer, Program Manager, Center for Watershed Protection, 410-461-8323, rrw.cwp.org

Project Name: Bull River Partnership Project Name: Center for First Americans Forest Lands Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Summary: The public-private partnership permanently Summary: Partnership to promote and educate on sustainable protected more than 1,800 acres of key wildlife forestry, particularly best practices for underserved habitat along the Bull River in northwestern private forest owners and tribal forest communities. Montana. Contact: Holly YoungBear-Tibbetts, Dean of External Website: www.conservationfund.org Relations, College of Menominee Nation, Contact: Mark W. Elsbree, Vice President, The Conservation 715-799-5600 x3044, [email protected] Fund, Northwest Region, (208) 726-4419, [email protected]

Project Name: Calumet Initiative Project Name: Cheney Lake Water Quality Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana, Illinois Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas Summary: A coalition working to revitalize both the Rustbelt Summary: Farmers, the City of Wichita, and NRCS and EPA economy and the signiﬁcant ecological riches of partnered to fund and implement conservation Calumet. practices to clean and protect the city’s water Website: www.cityofchicago.org/environment supply at Cheney Lake. Contact: Suzanne Malec, Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Website: www.cheneylakewatershed.org/ Department of Environment, 312-744-7468, Contact: Lisa French, Project Director, Citizens Management [email protected] Committee, Cheney Lake Watershed, Inc., 620-665-0231, [email protected]

Project Name: Careless Creek Watershed Project Name: Chicago Region Land Conservation Plan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Summary: The successful, voluntary participation of Summary: The Land Trust Alliance has convened 10 land landowners and community groups represents conservation groups in the Chicago region to help the careful balance between irrigated agricultural them build capacity to protect the diversity of production, water use and conservation. natural resources and landscapes in the Chicago Website: www.epa.gov/owow/nps/Section319III/mt.HTM region. Contact: Alice Wolff, Lower Musselshell Conservation District, Website: www.lta.org 406-323-2103 x101, [email protected] Contact: Renee Kivikko, Midwest Program Director, Land Trust Alliance, 269-324-1683, [email protected]

Project Name: Carity Prairie Project Name: Chicago Wilderness Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Summary: The Milwaukee Area Land Conservancy has Summary: An unprecedented partnership of 182 organizations partnered with developer Bill Carity to preserve a working to protect, restore and manage the rare prairie remnant and restore a sedge meadow biological diversity of the Chicago region. complex. The site totals 23 acres and is open to the Website: www.chicagowilderness.org public. Contact: Debra Shore, Chicago Wilderness Director Website: my.core.com/~dhanson/ of Development and Editor, Chicago Contact: Tim Burch, President - MALC, Milwaukee Area Land Wilderness Magazine, 847-965-9275, Concervancy, 414-421-9788, [email protected] [email protected]

196 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Chouteau Island Implementation Project Name: Comanche Pool Prairie Resource Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas, South- Summary: The Chouteau Island Implementation effort will Central/South-West: Oklahoma convert a 5,500 acre island-complex, outside of St. Summary: Restore and protect grassland natural resources, to Louis, Mo., into a passive recreational complex with provide education to ranchers, local citizens and extensive ﬂoodplain habitat restoration. youth on proper management of the rangeland Website: www.swircd.org/ ecosystem, and to enhance rural socioeconomics. Contact: Dave Eustis, Chouteau Island Project Manager, Website: kansaspartners.fws.gov/ks8.htm Southwestern Illinois RC&D, Inc., 618-566-4451, Contact: Greg Kramos, Kansas Partners for Fish and Wildlife [email protected] Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 785-539-3474, ext 111, [email protected]

Project Name: Clearwater Stewardship Project, Seeley Lake Project Name: Community Floodplain Buyout Partnership Ranger District, Lolo National Forest Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Summary: Missouri watershed project used to buyout more Summary: One of the ﬁrst projects to test collaborative than 100 frequently ﬂooded residences and approaches and new stewardship contracting businesses in Piedmont. In their place are a park authorities to accomplish forest and recreation site and a hiking trail. restoration in occupied grizzly bear habitat. Contact: Roger A. Hansen, State Conservationist, USDA Website: www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/projects/ Natural Resources Conservation Service, stewardship/results/clearwater/index.shtml 573-876-0901, [email protected] Contact: Tim Love, District Ranger, USDA Forest Service, Lolo National Forest, Seeley Lake Ranger District, (406) 677-2233, [email protected]

Project Name: Cleveland Clean Air Century Campaign Project Name: Conﬂuence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota Summary: This voluntary, community-based initiative seeks Summary: Conservation organizations and landowners to reduce health and environmental risks from air partnered to acquire 1,465 acres bordering the toxics in Northeast Ohio. conﬂuence of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, Website: www.ohiolung.org/ccacc.htm located in McKenzie County, northwestern North Contact: Linda D. Kimble, Project Coordinator, Cleveland Dakota. Clean Air Century Campaign, 216-532-8211, Website: www.ndnrt.com/pdf/WRP_projects.pdf [email protected] Contact: Jennifer Heglund, ASTC(Programs), USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, 701-530-2095, [email protected]

Project Name: Clinton River Spillway Bike Path Project Project Name: Confluence: A Conservation, Heritage & Recreation Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Corridor Summary: This state and national award-winning volunteer Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri effort conserves, enhances and protects land and Summary: Reconnecting people to region’s Great Rivers water quality through gardening and education. through a system of multi-use trails, recreation Website: www.macombcountymi.gov/msuextension/ facilities, historic sites, visitor education centers, MGbikepathproject.asp public art & interpretation. Contact: Patrice Avery, Environmental Educator / Master Website: www.confluencegreenway.org Gardener Volunteer Project Coordinator, Macomb Contact: Laura Cohen, Project Director, Confluence County Public Works / Michigan State University Greenway, 314-436-1324 ext 108, Extension Master Gardeners, (586)307-8269, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Co-Management of the National Bison Range Project Name: Conservation Security Program in the St. Joseph Complex Watershed Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana, Michigan, Summary: Under the Annual Funding Agreement for the Ohio National Bison Range Complex, the Salish and Summary: The Conservation Security Program in the St. Joseph Kotenai confederated tribes will perform services watershed rewards agricultural landowners for otherwise provided by FWS for ﬁscal years 2005 and superior conservation and stewardship practices. 2006. Website: www.mi.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/cspstjoe.html Website: www.fws.gov/bisonrange/ Contact: Robin Ryan, District Administrator, Hillsdale County Contact: Clayton Matt, Natural Resources Department Head, Conservation District, 517-849-9890 x 191, Salish and Kootenai Tribe, 406-675-2700 x7263, [email protected] [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 197 Project Name: Conserving Prairie Ranches, Ranchers, and Project Name: Dam Removal and Fishway Construction in Grassland Birds Minnesota and North Dakota Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota, South Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana Dakota Summary: A landscape-level project that uses purchased Summary: Removing impediments to ﬁsh passages to establish conservation easements to conserve native a lake sturgeon population on the White Earth grasslands and wetlands vital to ranchers and Reservation and improve habitat availability for all grassland birds. migrating species along the Red River. Website: www.ducks.org Contact: Scott Yess, Assistant Project Leader, LaCrosse Fishery Contact: James Ringelman, Director of Conservation Resources Ofﬁce, 608-783-8432, [email protected] Programs, Ducks Unlimited, Inc., 701-355-3504, [email protected]

Project Name: Creating, Protecting, and Restoring Kansas Project Name: Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage Wetlands and Streams Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas Summary: 500-1000 person ecovillage in northeast Missouri Summary: Partnership is a non-governmental, non-political, as experimental project in social and technological locally-driven group that implements sound plans strategies for sustainabie living for North Americans to address Kansas wetland, stream, and riparian Website: www.dancingrabbit.org area water quality and habitat concerns. Contact: Jonah “Cecil” Scheib, Secretary, (660) 883-5881, Website: www.kaws.org/ [email protected] Contact: Tim Christian, State Coordinator, The Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams, Inc. (KAWS), 620-241-3636, [email protected]

Project Name: Cuyahoga Valley Countryside Initiative Project Name: Defense Mapping Agency Center/National Imaging Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio and Mapping Agency Summary: Partnership is conserving living farms in harmony Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri with National Park Service cultural and land Summary: Former lands of the National Imagery and stewardship values, and managing farms via private Mapping Agency are being restored for economic leases. development and conservation of signiﬁcant Website: www.cvcountryside.org wetland areas. Contact: Darwin Kelsey, Executive Director, Cuyahoga Contact: Mark Brady, Assistant Vice President, Real Estate Valley Countryside Conservancy, 330-657-2532, and Community Development, St. Louis County [email protected] Economic Development Council, 314-615-7665, [email protected]

Project Name: Dakota County Minnesota Farmland and Natural Project Name: Detroit River Conservation Partnerships Areas Program Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota Summary: A community comes together to address heavily Summary: This voluntary program seeks to protect 5,000- polluted river corridors, while restoring wildlife 10,000 acres of priority Dakota County farmlands habitat and preserving recreational uses. and natural areas over the next 10 years. Contact: John Hartig, Refuge Manager, Detroit River Website: www.co.dakota.mn.us/planning/fnap/News.htm International Wildlife Refuge, 734-692-7608, Contact: Dakota County Ofﬁce of Planning, 952-891-7001, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Dakota Prairie/McKenzie County Grazing Project Name: District,NRCS Target Irrigation Water Quality Association Partnership Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota Summary: NRCS and Central Platte Natural Resources District Summary: Ongoing partnership between the Forest Service use EQIP and district cost share funds to target & the Grazing Association (over 190 ranches) for cost-share funds at priority water quality irrigation stewardship of national grasslands interspersed farmers. with private ranchlands. Contact: James Huntwork, District Conservationist, Natural Website: www.fs.fed.us/r1/dakotaprairie/mckenzie.htm Resources Conservation Service, (308) 395-8586, Contact: Frank Guzman, District Ranger, USDA Forest Service, [email protected] Dakota Prairie Grasslands, McKenzie Ranger District, 701-842-2393, [email protected]

198 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: DTE Energy Trenton Channel Power Plant Project Name: Great Lakes “Coaster” Brook Trout Restoration Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan, Summary: Through local partnerships in Michigan, DTE Energy Minnesota, Wisconsin is helping the common tern make a comeback Summary: Collaboration among federal and state along the Detroit River. governments, tribes, and private organizations to Website: www.wildlifehc.org/ help bring the Coaster brook trout back to Lake Contact: Vanessa Kauffman, Director of Marketing & Superior. Communications, Wildlife Habitat Council, Website: www.fws.gov/midwest/ashland/brook/index.html 301-588-8994, [email protected] Contact: Laura Hewitt, Watershed Program Director, Trout Unlimited, 608-250-3534, [email protected]

Project Name: Flathead Common Ground Project Name: Great Lakes Deepwater Science Program Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois, Indiana, Summary: FCG was formed with the intent to improve wildlife Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, habitat and forest conditions and to simultaneously Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York, Pennsylvania utilize economically viable timber sales as a tool to Summary: This program conducts long-term aquatic ecosystem help to achieve these objectives. assessments using advanced technologies to Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ support state, federal and provincial resource ﬂatheadforest.html management in the Great Lakes. Contact: Gary Dahlgren, Flathead National Forest Website: www.glsc.usgs.gov/ (406) 758-5269, [email protected] Contact: Leon Carl, Center Director, U. S. Geological Survey, 734-214-7200, [email protected]

Project Name: Flathead Forestry Project Project Name: Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon Rehabilitation Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana, Michigan, Summary: The project promotes community trust and Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Northeastern/Mid- collaborative processes, ensures forest and Atlantic: New York ecosystem health, and provides for a sustainable Summary: Fishery agencies and organizations coordinate to resource-based economy within the region. gather information on historic spawning rivers and Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ remnant lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes. ﬂatheadforest.html Website: www.fws.gov/midwest/sturgeon Contact: Carol Daly, Flathead Forestry Project, Contact: Henry Quinlan, Lead Biologist for Lake Superior, (406) 892-8155, [email protected] Ashland Fishery Resources Ofﬁce, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 715-682-6185, [email protected]

Project Name: Fleshman Creek Project Name: Great Plains Geographic Information Systems Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Partnership Summary: In partnership with the City of Livingston and Trout Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska, Wyoming, Unlimited, NPS helped to design and plan a stream Kansas, South-Central/South-West: Colorado, New restoration project to provide trout spawning and Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas rearing habitat. Summary: Project facilitates collaboration, communication and Website: www.nps.gov/ncrc/programs/rtca/news&events/ne_ reduces redundancy in GIS data development for stories/conssucc/Trout_Habitat_Improved.html bird habitat assessment and conservation. Contact: Gary Weiner, RTCA Montana ﬁeld ofﬁce, National Contact: Karin Callahan, GIS Team Leader, Playa Lakes Joint Park Service, (406) 587-1667, [email protected] Venture, (308) 382-6468 ex 38, [email protected]

Project Name: Glacial Ridge Project, Partnership in Preservation Project Name: Greater Yellowstone Mammal Migrations Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Summary: Glacial Ridge Project, the country’s largest grassland Summary: The Nature Conservancy and partners are and wetland reconstruction effort, is returning committed to protecting critical seasonal ranges Minnesota’s prairie to its pre-settlement condition. for Yellowstone’s migrating animals and preserving Website: nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ these historic overland movements. minnesota/preserves/art6943.html Website: nature.org Contact: Ron Nargang, State Director, The Nature Contact: Laura Hubbard, Greater Yellowstone Program Conservancy, 612-331-0774, [email protected] Manager, The Nature Conservancy, (406) 556-7277, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 199 Project Name: Green Topeka Sustainable Development Project Name: Historic Trails and Energy Development in Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Wyoming Summary: Designed and implemented stormwater Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming management systems that utilize vegetation to Summary: Partners develop workable plans for energy treat the volume of runoff, and to improve its development that also reduce impacts on historic quality. trails. Contact: Greg Ruark, Program Manager, USDA National Contact: David J. Welch, National Preservation Ofﬁcer, Agroforestry Center, 256-372-4540, [email protected] Oregon-California Trails Association, 253-584-0332, [email protected]

Project Name: Guide for South Dakota Rural Homeowners Project Name: Horizon Farms Agricultural Preservation Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: South Dakota Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Summary: The project/publication helps people to understand Summary: Horizon’s 421 acres is a traditional horse farm. It is natural resources to better manage their small preserved by the McGinley family, Barrington Hills acreages for a healthier environment and guides Conservation Trust, The Conservation Foundation, them to available programs and services. and Equestrian Land Conservation Resource. Website: www.sd.nrcs.usda.gov/Publications.html and http:// Website: www.bchtrust.org; www.elcr.org; www.theconserva www.sdconservation.org tionfoundation.org Contact: Colette Kessler, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Contact: Mary Bradford-White, President, Barrington Hills Natural Resources Conservation Service, Conservation Trust, 847-381-4291, (605) 224-2476, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Healthy Grown Potato Partnership Project Name: Illinois River Conservation Reserve Enhancement Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Program (CREP) Summary: The partnership promotes IPM, plans to protect Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois habitat and species on private lands, improvements Summary: The Illinois River CREP helps farmers improve water to soil, water and air quality, using regional goals, quality in the Illinois River and restore bottomland and markets these efforts through an eco-label. habitat through conservation easements. Website: www.wisconsinpotatoes.com/fresh_healthy.htm Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/state_updates.htm#ill Contact: Frank Casey, Ph.D., Director, Conservation Contact: Jim Herbert, Illinois State Director, The Nature Economics Program, Defenders of Wildlife, Conservancy, 309-636-3325, [email protected] 202-682-9400, [email protected]

Project Name: Healthy Kids Healthy Forests Partnership (A Get Fit Project Name: Implementation of a Scientiﬁcally Credible IPM With US Campaign Program) Approach to Control Invasive Species and Restore Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Native Prairie Summary: Partners within the Bitterroot Valley of Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota are working to promote healthy lifestyles by Summary: This partnership used the experience and expertise engaging young people in the natural world of a wide variety of disciplines to treat and restore through public land learning and stewardship NPS lands using a scientiﬁcally credible approach. activities. Contact: Chad Prosser, EPMT Liaison, National Park Service, Website: www.fs.fed.us/r1/bitterroot/ 701-623-4466, [email protected] Contact: Julie Schreck, Healthy Kids Healthy Forests Coordinator, USDA Forest Service, Bitteroot National Forest, (406) 375-2606, [email protected]

Project Name: Heart Mountain Grassbank Project Name: Indiana Master Naturalist Program Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana Summary: Member, National Grassbank Network, this irrigated Summary: Brings together specialists with adult learners pasture is for ranchers’ use while the Forest Service to foster an understanding of Indiana’s natural conducts conservation projects on their grazing resources and promote volunteer service and allotments. conservation in local communities. Website: www.grassbank.net Website: www.indianamasternaturalist.org/ Contact: Maria Sonett, Project Director, The Nature Contact: Todd Hutson, Purdue Extension Educator, Chair Conservancy, 307-754-8446, [email protected] State IMN Advisory Committee, (765) 492-3394, [email protected]

200 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Interdisciplinary Investigation of Coalbed Methane Project Name: Kankakee Sands Restoration Project Development in the Powder River Basin Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Summary: The Kankakee Sands Restoration works with state Summary: Multi-scale, Interdisciplinary study supporting and federal partners to re-connect 4 protected BLM and state of Wyoming in managing the pristine areas in Newton County, thereby restoring environmental impacts on local landowners of the a large segment of native prairie to Indiana. rapid pace of coal bed methane development. Website: www.nature.org/indiana Website: rockyitr.cr.usgs.gov/cbmprb/ Contact: Chip O’Leary, Kankakee Sands Project Director, The Contact: Myron Brooks, Center Director, U. S. Geological Nature Conservancy, (219) 285-2184, Survey, 307-778-293-x 2728, [email protected] co’[email protected]

Project Name: International Lake Level Management: Minnesota- Project Name: Karner Blue Butterﬂy Habitat Conservation Plan Ontario Lakes Region Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota Summary: HCP encourages voluntary creation and Summary: An international research program documents management of endangered Karner blue butterﬂy ecological changes associated with the new habitat on private lands through incentives and hydrologic regime in Namakan Reservoir, Voyageurs support. National Park. Website: www.dnr.wi.gov/org/land/forestry/karner/ Contact: Larry Kallemeyn, Research Scientist, U.S. Geological Contact: Dave Lentz, Wisconsin Statewide HCP Coordinator, Survey, 218-283-9821, [email protected] Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 608-261-6451, [email protected]

Project Name: Iowa Buffer Team Project Name: Karner Blue Butterﬂy Habitat Conservation Plan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Iowa Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Summary: A unique group of public and private partners Summary: HCB encourages voluntary creation and joined forces to promote the establishment of management of endangered Karner blue butterﬂy buffers on agricultural lands. habitat on private lands through incentives and Website: www.treesforever.org support. Contact: Shannon Ramsay, Trees Forever, 319-373-0650, Website: www.dnr.wi.gov/org/land/forestry/karner/ [email protected] Contact: Dave Lentz, Wisconsin Statewide HCP Coordinator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 608-261-6451, [email protected]

Project Name: Iowa Soybean Association Agronomic & Project Name: Kaskaskia Watershed Association, Inc. Environmental Programs Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Iowa Summary: Federal, State and local partners joined together to Summary: To empower farmers to compare new crop develop and implement a comprehensive strategy production practices and inputs with current for restoration and management of the Kaskaskia management practices to improve their economic River watershed. returns and lessen their environmental impact. Website: www.swircd.org/swircd/projects/kas_Final_Report. Website: www.isafarmnet.com htm Contact: Roger Wolf, Director, Environmental Programs, Contact: Larry Hasheider, President, Kaskaskia Watershed Iowa Soybean Association, 800-383-1423, Association, Inc., 618-243-5514, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Joliet Army Ammunition Plant Project Name: Lake Decatur Watershed Community Based Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Partnership Summary: Private, county, state, and federal entities Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois implement the Joliet Arsenal Citizens Planning Summary: This farmer-urban community based watershed Commission’s balanced redevelopment plan for the partnership, formed in 1943, promotes reducing closed 23,000-acre arsenal. nitrate and sediment loads from agricultural lands. Website: aec.army.mil/usaec/cleanup/aic-il-02.html Website: www.maconswcd.com Contact: Jerry Heinrich, Sierra Club, 815-476-6171, Contact: Marilyn Parker, Executive Director, Macon County [email protected] Soil & Water Conservation District, 217-877-5670 Ext. 111, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 201 Project Name: Lake Seldom Wetland Restoration Community Project Name: Little River Drainage Fish Passage Restoration Open Space Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas, South- Summary: A rural community incorporates wetlands into a Central/South-West: Oklahoma open space system. A multitude of partners pooled Summary: Timber companies and the OK Dept. of Wildlife funds for acquisition and restoration. Conservation are currently working on ﬁsh passage Contact: Bob Rager, City Manager, City of Holdrege, for the threatened leopard darter and the Ouachita (308) 995-8681, [email protected] shiner (species of concern). Contact: Brent Bristow, Oklahoma Fishery Resources Ofﬁce, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 580-384-5710, [email protected]

Project Name: Lake Superior Land Trust Partnership Project Name: Managing Flooding in Metropolitan Milwaukee Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan, Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Minnesota, Wisconsin Summary: The Conservation Fund partnered with the Summary: Many land trusts and conservation groups have Milwaukee Sewerage District is implementing ﬂood leveraged resources needed to conserve natural and management programs that protect wetlands and scenic resources in the Lake Superior watershed. wildlife habitat. Website: www.lta.org Website: www.conservationfund.org Contact: Renee Kivikko, Midwest Program Director, Land Contact: Peg Kohring, Director, Midwest Ofﬁce, TCF, The Trust Alliance, 269-324-1683, [email protected] Conservation Fund, (269) 426-8825, [email protected]

Project Name: Land O’ Lakes Ravine Restoration Project Name: Mapping Invasive Leafy Spurge with Remote Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota Sensing Summary: Partnership stabilized ravine leading to the Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota Mississippi River that was causing sediment Summary: This partnership develops remote sensing and deposition and extreme disturbance to high quality modeling for detecting, mapping, and predicting plant communities. infestations of leafy spurge on the Northern Great Website: www.dakotacountyswcd.org/liddemo.htm#land- Plains. lakes Contact: Susan Stitt, Physical Scientist, U. S. Geological Contact: Brian Watson, District Manager, Dakota County Survey, 303-202-4351, [email protected] Soil & Water Conservation District, (651) 480-7778, [email protected]

Project Name: Leopold Memorial Reserve Project Name: Martell Rush River Protection Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Summary: Coordination among private landowners stopped Summary: Diverse partners collaborate to protect shoreline, land fragmentation, initiated habitat monitoring, and provide public access to the Rush River. and improved management which produced Website: wwlt.org signiﬁcant ecological research and educational Contact: Michelle Dingwall, Director of Development & opportunities. Communications, West Wisconsin Land Trust, Website: www.sandcounty.net/programs/leopold_memorial_ 715-235-8850, [email protected] reserve/ Contact: Kevin McAleese, Program Manager, Sand County Foundation, (608) 663-4605, [email protected]

Project Name: Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Partnerships Project Name: McKenzie Creek Watershed Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Summary: A collaboration between the Forest Service Summary: The project consists of voluntary acquisition and partners makes possible a wide range of of frequently ﬂooded properties in the City of interpretive and educational operations at the Piedmont and development of a habitat enhancing Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. greenway. Website: www.fs.fed.us/r1/lewisclark/lcic Website: www.morcd.org/bsrcd/mckenzie_creek.htm Contact: Jane Weber, Center Director, Lewis and Clark Contact: Gaylon Watson, Mayor, City of Piedmont, National Historic Trail Interpretive Center, 573-223-7660, [email protected] (406) 727-8733, [email protected]

202 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Measuring Conservation Practices Project Name: Michigan Frog & Toad Survey Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Summary: A GIS-based model was developed to determine Summary: The Michigan Frog and Toad Survey will provide a the effects of best management practices for wealth of information on the status of Michigan agricultural lands on erosion and sedimentation frog and toad populations, and help monitor the rates. quality of our environment. Website: www.oh.nrcs.usda.gov Website: www.michigan.gov/dnr/1,1607,7-153-10370_12143_ Contact: Terry Cosby, State Conservationist, USDA-NRCS, 12194---,00.html 614-255-2472, [email protected] Contact: Lori Sargent, Natural Heritage Specialist, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 517-373-9418, [email protected]

Project Name: Mechanized Thinning Trial of Upland Hardwood Project Name: Michigan’s Copper Country Cooperative Partnership Forests Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Summary: In 1998, NRCS contracted with the EPA to remediate Summary: A thinning trial was conducted on a site typical about 800 acres of exposed stamp sand areas to of overstocked, saw log-sized, upland hardwood prevent erosion into Torch Lake. stands on steep (30%), stony terrain in the Ozarks. Website: www.epa.gov/glnpo/aoc/trchlke.html Website: www.eofc.org Contact: Steve Davis, State Conservation Engineer, United Contact: Peter Becker, Research Coordinator, Eastern Ozarks States Department of Agriculture-NRCS, Forestry Council, 573-689-2121, (517) 324-5232, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Medicine Bow Trail Project Name: Middle Mississippi River Wetland Restoration Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois, Missouri Summary: Convert approximately 23 miles of old railroad Summary: Since the Great Flood of 1993 American Land corridor into non-motorized trail for public use in Conservancy has been helping restore bottomland cooperation with Albany County, Laramie Bicycling hardwood habitat, sidechannels and wetlands from Network, and others. St. Louis to Cairo, IL. Contact: Paul Blackman, Recreation Planner, Medicine Website: www.alcnet.org Bow-Routt National Forest, (307)745-2363, Contact: Jennifer Frazier, Vice President, American Land [email protected] Conservancy, 573-866-9989, [email protected]

Project Name: Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Project Name: Midwest Invasive Plant Network Program Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois, Indiana, Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa, Ohio, Summary: The MAEP program provides education, technical Wisconsin assistance, and veriﬁcation to help farmers Summary: Addressing the threats of non-native invasive plants voluntarily prevent agricultural pollution risks. to the Midwest by providing leadership, facilitating Website: www.maeap.org information development and exchange, and Contact: Jan Wilford, MAEAP Program Manager, Michigan coordinating regional efforts. Department of Agriculture, 517-241-4730, Website: mipn.org wilfordj9@ michigan.gov Contact: Katherine Howe, Midwest Invasive Plant Network Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy, (317)955-4978, khowe @ tnc.org

Project Name: Michigan Conservation Stewards Program Project Name: Mississippi Riverfront Trail Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Summary: This program delivers high quality, locally based Summary: The Riverfront Trail is developing 11 miles of education to create an informed citizenry who will recreational greenway perfect for hiking, biking, practice community-based volunteer conservation inline skating and the enjoyment of nature. management activities. Website: www.trailnet.org Contact: Heather Van Den Berg, Program Manager, Contact: Kathi Weilbacher, Events and Media Manager, (517) 432-5037, [email protected] Trailnet, Inc., 314-416-9930 x111, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 203 Project Name: Missouri Conservation Reserve Enhancement Project Name: Missouri Watershed Research Assessment- Program Stewardship Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Summary: The Missouri CREP provides incentives to farmers Summary: MGCA and Missouri Corn Merchandising Council to restore riparian buffers to reduce sediment, initiated WRASP to help corn farmers be better pollutant, and bacterial loading of waterways. environmental stewards of the land, water and Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/state_updates. natural resources. htm#misso Website: www.erc-env.org/WRASP.htm Contact: Gerald Hrdina, FSA Conservation Program Specialist, Contact: Steven K. Taylor, Chief Executive Ofﬁcer, USDA Farm Service Agency, 573-876-0932, Environmental Resources Coalition, 573-634-7078, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Missouri Department of Conservation/NRCS Project Name: Montana’s Matador Ranch Grassbank Partnership Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Summary: Ranchers and TNC enhance biodiversity and Summary: The Missouri Department of Conservation shares community sustainability through partnership that ofﬁce space with NRCS and assists with the trades TNC forage for ranchers’ conservation of application of farm bill programs. 250,000 acres of ranchlands. Contact: Roger A. Hansen, State Conservationist, USDA Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ Natural Resources Conservation Service, matadorranch.html 573-876-0901, [email protected] Contact: Linda Poole, Glaciated Plains Program Director, The Nature Conservancy, 406-658-2192, [email protected]

Project Name: Missouri Quail Habitat Initiative Project Name: Muddy Creek Coordinated Resource Management Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Project Summary: Enhance northern bobwhite and associated Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming grassland bird populations on private lands in north Summary: Muddy Creek project raised $2 million for Missouri in cooperation with landowners, producers habitat restoration to address natural resource and other partners. management issues. Contact: Jef Hodges, Regional Director, Quail Unlimited, Inc., Contact: Larry Hicks, Natural Resource Coordinator, Little 660-885-7057, [email protected] Snake River Conservation District, 307-383-7869, [email protected]

Project Name: Missouri River Riparian Project Name: Murdock Clean Water Partnership Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Summary: Landowners Michael and Patrick Wachter worked Summary: The community of Murdock, Nebraska, and state with partners to prevent loss of agricultural land and federal partners, used innovative technologies and other values along the river. to solve ground and surface water contamination. Website: www.ndnrt.com/pdf/MissouriRiverRiparianwebinfo_ Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/epb/hazardous_waste. ldr.pdf htm Contact: Jennifer Heglund, Assistant State Conservationist, Contact: Steve and Bonnie Bruttig, Nebraska Landowners, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, 402-867-2274, [email protected] 701-530-2095, [email protected]

Project Name: Missouri SWCD/NRCS Partnership Project Name: Nebraska City Citizens and Science Group - Missouri Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri River Adaptive Management Pilot Project Summary: Missouri NRCS’ partnership with local soil and water Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Iowa, Missouri, conservation districts is tops in reducing soil erosion Nebraska and protecting water quality. Summary: The NCC&SG is working to identify, select and Contact: Roger A. Hansen, State Conservationist, USDA implement, through a collaborative and adaptive Natural Resources Conservation Service, process, pilot projects and/or models to support 573-876-0901, [email protected] river recovery and community revitalization. Contact: Jennifer Pratt Miles, Mediator, Meridian Institute, 970-513-8340 ext. 213, [email protected]

204 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Nebraska Conservation Reserve Enhancement Project Name: Northwest Connections Program Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Summary: Involves rural residents, students and government Summary: Nebraska CREP is giving farmers and their partners agencies in cooperative efforts to identify and the resources needed to reduce sediment and restore critical habitat connections in the Swan nutrient runoff into lakes and waterways. Valley of Montana Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/state_updates.htm#NE Website: northwestconnections.org Contact: Peter Berthelsen, Director of Conservation Contact: Melanie Parker, Director, Northwest Connections, Programs, Pheasants Forever, 308-574-5339, 406.754.3185, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Nebraska Partnership for All-Bird Conservation Project Name: Ohio CELP Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio Summary: Partners promote coordinated & voluntary land Summary: Two projects along the lakefront of Lake Erie stewardship that will conserve, improve, and comprise this project. One is East Sandusky Bay and expand habitat for all bird species in Nebraska. the other is Mentor Marsh. Website: www.nebraskabirds.org Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust Contact: Kelly Wells, Coordinator, Nebraska Partnership for for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] All-Bird Conservation, (402) 471-5363, [email protected]

Project Name: Nebraska Tallgrass Prairie Partnership Project Name: Ohio Greenways Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio Summary: The Tallgrass Prairie Partnership identiﬁes Summary: Ohio Greenways Project, National Park Svc., and tallgrass management needs and directs habitat others created a statewide greenways plan that improvements on private lands. helped lead the Clean Ohio Fund to invest over Website: www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/programs/ $200 million for greenways, farm preservation, and landownerincentive/ trails. Contact: Jarren Kuipers, LIP Tallgrass Project Coordinator, Website: www.ohiogreenways.org/ Northern Prairies Land Trust, 402-228-8245, Contact: Paul Labovitz, RTCA Program Leader, National Park [email protected] Service, (330) 657-2950, [email protected]

Project Name: North Lake Basin Wetlands Restoration Project Name: Ohio Scioto River Basin Conservation Reserve Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Enhancement Program Summary: Contaminated ground water is cleaned with Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio innovative technology and used to restore wetlands Summary: The Ohio Scioto River Basin CREP helps cost-share in a critical migratory waterfowl ﬂyway. the creation of conservation buffers and wetlands Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/epb/hazardous_waste. on private farms to improve water quality. htm Website: www.ohiodnr.com/soilandwater/sciotocrep Contact: Steve Gilmore, Program Manager for Hazardous Contact: Rob Hamilton, Resource Management Specialist, Waste Activities, USDA Farm Service Agency, Division of Soil and Water Conservation, Ohio 202-720-5104, [email protected] Department of Natural Resources, 614-562-0738, [email protected]

Project Name: Northern Michigan Conservation and Wildlife Project Name: Partners for Grassland Stewardship Alliance Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Summary: To create a collaborative framework for grasslands Summary: To bring together all hands-on conservation management, build consensus on grasslands public organizations and to introduce them to the public. policy issues, and provide resources to stakeholders Contact: Doug Truax, Chair, Northern Michigan Wildlife for innovative grasslands stewardship. and Conservation Alliance, 231-369-2325, Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/pgs.html [email protected] Contact: Dave Pieper, Supervisor, Dakota Prairie Grasslands, (701) 250-4443, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 205 Project Name: Partners of the USDA Forest Service Lewis & Clark Project Name: Powder River Conservation District, Flood National Historic Trail Interpretive Center Mitigation Efforts Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Summary: The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center was built Summary: Partners help town recover from ﬂood and develop through partnerships and works with a diversity a ﬂood prevention plan. Emergency watershed of tribes, partner groups and volunteers to deliver protection and PL-83-566 - small watershed world class education and interpretive programs. protection. Website: www.fs.fed.us/r1/lewisclark/lcic/ Contact: Allison Engle, District Conservationist, USDA-Natural Contact: Jane Weber, Center Director, Lewis & Clark National Resources Conservation Service, 307-738-2321, Forest, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail [email protected] Interpretive Center, (406) 727-8733, [email protected]

Project Name: Phalen Corridor Brownﬁelds Redevelopment Project Name: Preservation of Sleepy Hollow Ravine Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Summary: Inner city decay is revitalized with parks, schools, Summary: How many corporate campuses boast 780,000 sq. ft. housing, and employment by community and of ofﬁce space & a 75-foot deep glacier-age ravine? stakeholder outreach, planning and volunteerism. $800,000 in funding was raised from City of Elgin, Website: www.phalencorridor.org Kane County & Grand Victoria Foundation. Contact: Curt Milburn, Project Director, 651-772-6220, Website: www.fvlf.org/conserv.html [email protected] Contact: Marianne Nelson, Executive Director, Fox Valley Land Foundation, 847-888-1897, [email protected]

Project Name: Platte River Ecosystem Program Project Name: Preserving Drayton Plains, a Clinton River Natural Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska, Wyoming, Area South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Summary: The partnership seeks a river recovery program that Summary: Through a conservation easement and partnership addresses both habitat conservation and regional with a township and non-proﬁt Nature Center, water development needs and utilizes imagery and Oakland Land Conservancy helped preserve a 137- geospatial information. acre threatened natural area. Website: mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/platte/ Website: www.oaklandlandconservancy.org Contact: Randy Parker, Hydrologist, U. S. Geological Survey, Contact: Donna Folland, Executive Director, Oakland Land 303-236-4882, [email protected] Conservancy, 248-601-2816, [email protected]

Project Name: Platte River Habitat Partnership Project Name: Providing data critical to managing the Greater Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Yellowstone ecosystem for a keystone species Summary: The Partnership attempts to balance the economic Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming needs of landowners and the ecological needs of Summary: Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team conducts wildlife and native grasslands. research and long-term radio monitoring efforts on Website: www.PlatteHabitat.org expanding grizzly bear populations in the Greater Contact: Timothy Tunnell, Grasslands Manager, The Nature Yellowstone Ecosystem. Conservancy, 308-583-2294, [email protected] Website: www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/igbst-home.htm Contact: Charles C. Schwartz, Principal Investigator, U. S. Geological Survey, 406-994-5043, [email protected]

Project Name: Pleasure Valley Conservancy Project Name: Raccoon Ecological Management Area Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio Summary: The restoration and preservation of privately- Summary: Collaboration with forestry industry to research owned 226 acre parcel containing prairie, oak best practices for restoring oak ecosystems, while savanna, woodlands, and wetlands, through also studying relevant economic and wildlife conservation easement with The Prairie Enthusiasts. implications. Website: www.theprairieenthusiasts.org/ Contact: Michael T. Rains, Director, USDA Forest Service, Contact: Ken Wade, owner, The Prairie Enthusiasts, 610-557-4017, [email protected] 608-767-3111, www.theprairieenthusiasts.com

206 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Rapid Response to DOI Land and Resource Project Name: Restoration at Kankakee Sands Manager’s Needs Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana, Wyoming, Summary: Restoration of both hydrology and native plants South-Central/South-West: Colorado on fragments of farmland will add to a mosaic of Summary: USGS scientists support science needs of DOI stream, wetland, prairie and savanna. land managers by sharing intellectual property, Website: nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ providing technical assistance, and synthesizing indiana/preserves/art2375.html existing data and information. Contact: Gene Fleming, Chief, Environmental Formulation Contact: Randle Olsen, Regional Science Coordinator, and Analysis Section, Planning Branch, US Army U. S. Geological Survey, 303-202-4743, Corps of Engineers, Chicago District, (312) 846-5585, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Rathbun Lake Water Quality Protection Project Project Name: Rice Creek & Battle Creek Watersheds Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Iowa Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Summary: Unique partnership of agencies, private Summary: A project to coordinate resources from all levels organizations and landowners to reduce of government and non-proﬁt organizations for contaminates in a lake used for drinking water, the common goal of reducing point and non-point recreation and ﬁsh-wildlife habitat. water pollution. Website: www.rlwa.org Website: www.calhouncd.org/programs.html Contact: John Glenn, President, Rathbun Land and Water Contact: Alan Herceg, Assistant State Conservationist/ Alliance, 641-647-2416, [email protected] Programs, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service—Michigan, (517) 324-5282, [email protected]

Project Name: Red River Basin Restoration Effort Project Name: Rocky Mountain Front Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Summary: Partnership works with others to restore aquatic Summary: A cooperative project of ranchers, agencies connectivity by removing or providing ﬁsh passage and NGO’s to protect the heritage and working around select dams and other barriers to ﬁsh landscape that is the last stonghold for grizzlies passage within the Red River basin. that use the prairies. Contact: Marcia C. M. de Almeida, Fish Passage Interim Website: nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ Coordinator R9, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, montana/preserves/art6027.html 703-358-1941, [email protected] Contact: Dave Carr, Project Director, The Nature Conservancy, 406-443-0303, [email protected]

Project Name: Red River of the North Project Name: Safeguarding Natural and Cultural Heritage in Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota, National Parks Minnesota Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska, South- Summary: Partners have achieved exceptional results Central/South-West: Colorado in protecting land and water, building local Summary: Innovative and specialized mobile strike teams stewardship and creating partnerships that have work with private and public partners throughout leveraged major funding. the country to manage harmful invasive plants on Website: www.rrbdin.org park lands. Contact: Charles Fritz, Director, International Water Institute, Website: www.nature.nps.gov/biology/invasivespecies 701-231-9747, charles.ﬁ[email protected] Contact: Linda R. Drees, Branch Chief, National Park Service, 970.225.3595, [email protected]

Project Name: Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Program for Project Name: Sandhills Task Force Habitat and Productivity of Federally Listed Species Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: North Dakota, Summary: Task force has obtained over two million Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Montana dollars in grants for projects such as easement Summary: Research to support resource management of acquisition, planned grazing systems, grassland emergent sandbar habitats on the Missouri River research, environmental, and stream and wetland for Federally listed species: piping plovers and least restoration. terns. Website: www.sandhillstaskforce.org/ Contact: Mark Sherfy, Research Biologist, U. S. Geological Contact: Gene D. Mack, Sandhills Coordinator, U.S. Fish Survey, 701-253-5504, [email protected] and Wildlife Service, 308-236-5015 ext 27, gene_ [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 207 Project Name: Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland Project Name: St. Mary’s River Bird Migration Corridor Project College Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Summary: Little Traverse Conservancy received a $1 Summary: In the spirit of Sigurd F. Olson, we facilitate million grant from the North American Wetland solutions to environmental problems through Conservation Act program to protect 1,418 acres education, research and citizen involvement. and 4 shore miles in the St. Mary’s River/Lake Huron Website: www.northland.edu/soei watershed. Contact: Claudia Curran, Public Relations Manager, Sigurd Website: www.landtrust.org Olson Environmental Institute, 715-682-1678, Contact: Anne Fleming, Communications, Little Traverse [email protected] Conservancy, 231-347-0991, aﬂ[email protected]

Project Name: Smithville Lake Project Name: Stearns Farm Stream Restoration Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio Summary: The Missouri Corn Growers Association worked Summary: This project is the restoration of an urban stream directly with Missouri corn farmers to implement channel into a fully functioning headwater stream. BMPs to reduce runoff of the herbicide atrazine to This stream ﬂows into Big Creek, the 3rd largest the lake. tributary to the Cuyahoga River. Website: www.erc-env.org/WRASP.htm Website: www.CuyahogaRiverRAP.org Contact: Steve Taylor, Program Director, Environmental Contact: James White, Executive Director / River Navigator, Resources Coalition, 573-634-7078, Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan (RAP) / [email protected] Cuyahoga American Heritage River, 216-241-2414 x307, [email protected]

Project Name: South Phillips County Rancher Stewardship Alliance Project Name: Stewardship Network Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Summary: Twenty-ﬁve family ranches lead efforts for Summary: By creating grassroots conservation communities, collaborative conservation to sustain communities, the Network increases capacity to care for natural ranching culture and wildlife across 1,500,000 acres lands and waters so that the sum of natural areas of native prairie. protection is greater than its parts. Contact: Dale and Janet Veseth, Contact Persons, South Website: www.stewardshipnetwork.org Phillips County Rancher Stewardship Alliance, Contact: Lisa Brush, Executive Director, The Stewardship 406-658-2504, [email protected] Network, 734/996-3190, [email protected]

Project Name: Southern Lake Michigan Rim Project Project Name: Sun River Watershed Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Summary: In partnership with volunteers and the Indiana Summary: A watershed project established in 1996, that Dunes National Lakeshore, the Conservancy works beneﬁts all water users in the Sun River Basin to combat invasive species, remove trash and Website: nris.state.mt.us/wis/sunriver/sunhome.htm conduct prescribed burns in this biologically rich Contact: Alan Rollo, Coordinator, Sun River Watershed, area. 406-727-4437, [email protected] Website: www.nature.org/indiana Contact: Paul Labus, Project Director, The Nature Conservancy, (219) 473-4312, [email protected]

Project Name: St. Clair Shores Waterfront Advisory Committee Project Name: Sun River Watershed and Muddy Creek, Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Summary: Our goals are directed towards promoting better Summary: Grass roots team work, and an aggressive basin- water quality, a cleaner Lake St. Clair and greater wide assessment and BMP implementation program public awareness concerning our waterfront leads to successful erosion control, water quality stewardship. and quantity improvements in the whole Sun River Website: www.angelﬁre.com/mi4/scswateradvisory Basin Contact: Joe St. John, Co-Chairperson, Waterfront Advisory Website: www.epa.gov/owow/showcase/sunriver/summary. Committee, (586) 774-4750, html See also: http://www.rivernetwork.org/li [email protected] Contact: Alan Rollo, Local Coordinator, Sun River Project, 406-727-4437, [email protected]

208 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Swamplovers Partnership Project Name: Thompson - Fisher Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Summary: A 500 acre block of land in the Black Earth Creek Summary: The project seeks to purchase conservation watershed of rapidly developing Dane County has easements in the Thompson River and Fisher River been protected along the Ice Age Trail. valleys of northwestern Montana. Website: www.iceagetrail.org Website: www.tpl.org Contact: Andrew Hanson, Trailway Director, Ice Age Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust Park and Trail Foundation, Inc., 608-663-1281, for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Swan Ecosystem Center Project Name: Tinkers Creek Watershed Action Plan Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio Summary: Swan Valley, Montana residents are working on Summary: A study of the Watershed seeking to initiate a a comprehensive strategy to maintain a timber Conservation Priority Plan to protect aquatic and economy, ecological integrity and a rural way of life terrestrial habitat. as timberlands are sold for residential development. Website: Tinkerscreek.org Website: swanecosystemcenter.com Contact: Marion Olson, Land trust President, Tinkers Creek Contact: Anne Dahl, President/Secretary, Swan Ecosystem Land Conservancy, 330 425 4159, maoteach@alltel. Center, 406-754-3137, [email protected] net

Project Name: Swan Valley Project Name: Tippecanoe River Project Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana Summary: The Trust for Public Land is involved in a signiﬁcant Summary: The Nature Conservancy works with local partnership to acquire conservation easements in landowners and other partners to return trees to the Swan River Valley of northwestern Montana. the Tippecanoe River’s ﬂoodplain, restore wetlands Website: www.tpl.org and introduce conservation-friendly farming Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust practices. for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] Website: www.nature.org/indiana Contact: Chad Watts, Tippecanoe Project Director, The Nature Conservancy, (574) 946-7491, [email protected]

Project Name: Tallgrass Legacy Alliance Project Name: Trapper’s Point Working Group Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming Summary: Agricultural organizations, conservation Summary: The group seeks to develop a protection plan for organizations and private citizens seeking balanced, the Trapper’s Point wildlife migration route, a community based stewardship of the Kansas crucial corridor for pronghorn antelope, mule deer, Tallgrass prairies. and other migrating ungulates. Website: www.oznet.ksu.edu/tla/ Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/trappers. Contact: Jeff Davidson, TLA Coordinator, Kansas State html University Research and Extension, 620-583-7455, Contact: Joel Berger, Senior Scientist, North America [email protected] Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, (208) 787-3068, [email protected]

Project Name: Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership Project Name: Unique Partnership Impacts Wetland and Stream Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Health Summary: Established in 1999, this Partnership protects river Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Kansas birds, prevents or resolves bird-industry conﬂicts, Summary: The Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams and educates and involves local communities. implements projects to restore and protect habitat Website: www.ternandplover.unl.edu and water quality in Kansas wetlands, streams, and Contact: Renae Held, Program Coordinator, Tern and riparian areas. Plover Conservation Partnership, 402-472-8878, Website: www.kaws.org [email protected] Contact: Tim Christian, State Coordinator, The Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams, Inc., (620) 241-3636, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 209 Project Name: Upper Mississippi River Basin Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Iowa, Illinois, South Central-West Region Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin Summary: New drainage water management systems in the Midwest are improving water quality and wildlife habitat in the Mississippi River Basin. Website: www.admcoalition.com/ Contact: Charlie Schafer, President, Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition, 800-232-4742, [email protected]

Project Name: WILD Nebraska Project Name: Altar Valley Conservation Alliance Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Summary: The WILD Nebraska program seeks to increase and Summary: The Alliance works on habitat restoration and improve wildlife habitat on private land and public conservation in the Altar Valley, including land not owned by the Commission to optimize preservation of family ranching, native species recreational access opportunities. preservation, prescribed burns and erosion control. Website: www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/programs/ Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/altarvalley. wildnebraska/wildnebraska.asp html Contact: Steve Riley, Assistant Division Administrator, Contact: Pat King, President, Altar Valley Conservation Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Alliance, (520) 822-1065, [email protected] 402-471-5420, [email protected]

Project Name: Wildlife Forever – Minnesota Twins Bass Fishing Project Name: American Forests & Bureau of Land Management Classic Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota Summary: American Forests and the BLM teamed up to re- Summary: The Wildlife Forever - Minnesota Twins Bass establish pine forests on acquired cutover lands on Fishing Classic raises funds for natural resource the Homestead Mesa in New Mexico. conservation and youth education projects while Website: www.americanforests.org promoting the conservation of Twin Cities Metro Contact: Deborah Gangloff, Executive Director, American lakes. Forests, (202) 737-1944, [email protected] Website: www.wildlifeforever.org Contact: Pete Wuebker, Director of Marketing, Wildlife Forever, 763-253-0222, [email protected]

Project Name: American Fork Canyon Home Rivers Project Project Name: Winter-Eden Farm Easement Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois Summary: Trout Unlimited, a third party “Good Samaritan” Summary: A scenic 240-acre traditional family farm will restore abandoned mines on private property in northwest Illinois has been permanently to improve trout habitat in American Fork Canyon. conserved for agricultural-related activities with a Website: www.tu.org conservation easement donated by the landowner, Contact: Ted Fitzgerald, Project Manager, American Nancy Winter. Fork Creek, Trout Unlimited, 801-465-9949, Website: www.jdcf.org tﬁ[email protected] Contact: Julie Bruser, Executive Director, Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation, 815-858-9100, [email protected]

Project Name: Yaak Valley Forest Council Project Name: Analysis of Fire Risk with Emphasis on Preservation Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana of Cultural Resources Summary: The Council seeks to protect the last remaining Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado roadless cores in the Yaak Valley, support the Summary: This project prioritizes ﬁre treatment approaches in development of a sustainable local economy, and the monument in areas of extreme ﬁre hazard but encourage dialogue among polarized groups. also with high cultural site density in the Canyons Website: www.yaakvalley.org of the Ancients National Monument. Contact: Robyn King, Executive Director, Yaak Valley Forest Contact: Carol Mladinich, Project Manager, U. S. Geological Council, (406) 295-9736, [email protected] Survey, 303-202-4313, [email protected]

210 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Arizona OHV Inventory Partnership Project Name: Big Thicket National Preserve Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: Interagency comprehensive inventory of existing Summary: An addition of more than 4,400 acres of forestland OHV routes on FS, BLM, State Trust Lands in AZ. to Big Thicket National Preserve will permanently Website: www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/ohv/ safeguard wildlife habitat and recreation areas in Contact: Jerry Ingersoll, OHV Program Leader, USDA Forest one of the nation’s most vulnerable parks. Service, 202-205-0931, [email protected] Website: www.conservationfund.org Contact: Andy Jones, Director, Texas Ofﬁce, TCF, The Conservation Fund, (512) 477-1712, [email protected]

Project Name: Arkansas Conservation Partnership Project Name: Binational Ocelot Recovery Project Location: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: The partnership is a unique force, combining the Summary: Conservation agencies, organizations and strengths of federal, state and local organizations foundations in Texas and Tamaulipas, Mexico team along with educational institutions, to help up with landowners to save the endangered ocelot preserve and protect The Natural State. through incentives-based stewardship. Website: www.ar.nrcs.usda.gov/partnerships/ Website: www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?content Contact: Kalven L. Trice, State Conservationist, USDA/NRCS, id=3469&linkID=49 (501) 301-3100, [email protected] Contact: Karen Chapman, Water & Wildlife Analyst, Environmental Defense, 956-466-4655, [email protected]

Project Name: Army Compatible Use Buffer Project Project Name: Black Bear Conservation Committee Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas, Louisiana, Summary: Conservation easements on lands adjacent to Fort Texas, Southeastern: Mississippi Carson are being developed to buffer the Fort Summary: The BBCC is a broad-based coalition of diverse from development and to maintain open space and interests whose mission is to promote the wildlife habitat. restoration of the Louisiana black bear through Website: aec.army.mil/usaec/natural/natural03a.html education, research, and habitat management. Contact: Mr. Matthew Moorehead, Program Manager, Website: bbcc.org/ The Nature Conservancy, 720-974-7042, Contact: Paul Davidson, Executive Director, Black Bear [email protected] Conservation Committee, 225-763-5425, [email protected]

Project Name: Bahia Grande Estuary Restoration Project Name: Bob Long Safe Harbor Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: Restoration of tidal exchange and estuary Summary: Recovery of the Houston toad by providing functions of an 11,000 acre barren basin and the safe harbor assurances and incentives to private reestablishment of critical habitat for ﬁsh, wildlife landowners for their participation in habitat and waterfowl. restoration and enhancement Website: www.oceantrust.org Contact: David Wolfe, Scientist, Environmental Defense, Contact: Thor Lassen, President, Ocean Trust, 703-450-9852, (512) 478-5161, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Bayou Bartholomew Alliance Project Name: Booker T. Washington High School Location: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas Location: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas Summary: The Alliance is introducing a market-based Summary: Brownﬁelds project to revitalize and modernize environmental assets program to support improving training, education, employment opportunities and stream ecosystem quality. entrepreneurial activities for traditional and non- Website: www.arkansas.gov/bba traditional students and the community. Contact: Ronnie Ulmer, The Nature Conservancy, Contact: Nathan Champagne, Brownﬁelds Coordinator, 318-412-0472, [email protected] City of New Orleans, 504-658-4070, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 211 Project Name: Bradshaw Foothills Planning Partnership Project Name: Cimarron Watershed Alliance Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Summary: A citizen driven management plan is in Summary: The Alliance seeks to improve and maintain both development for the Bradshaw Foothills in Arizona. the quality and quantity of water in the Cimarron Contact: Chris Horyza, Community Liaison, Bureau of Land watershed through collaborative community Management, 623-580-5628, [email protected] activities involving all stakeholders. Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/cimarron. html Contact: Jim Hollis, Cimarron River Water Master, New Mexico Ofﬁce of the State Engineer and the Interstate Stream Commission, (505) 376-2918, [email protected]

Project Name: Brazoria Elementary School Project Name: Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Restoration Act (“Breaux Act”) Summary: Acquired school and grounds to develop a Location: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana community center and library complex to educate Summary: The Breaux Act partnership develops, maintains and the public on county history and on the need to monitors sustainable projects that create, protect, conserve key areas and habitat. and restore Louisiana’s coastal wetlands. Contact: Darrell H. Schwebel, President, Cradle of Texas Website: www.lacoast.gov Conservancy, Inc, (979)285-2173, Contact: Julie T. Morgan, CWPPRA Outreach Program [email protected] Specialist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division, New Orleans District, CEMVN-PM-C, 504-862-2587, [email protected]

Project Name: Buffalo Bayou Project Name: Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Restoration Act Task Force Summary: This 1.5-acre property is located on the south Location: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana shore of Buffalo Bayou near the Port of Houston. Summary: Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and This project will enhance community access to the Restoration Act Task Force unites federal, state, and bayou’s frontage and improve ﬂood management. private citizens in Louisiana coastal restoration. Website: www.tpl.org Website: www.lacoast.gov/cwppra/ Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Prgram Development, Trust Contact: Jimmy B. Johnston, Branch Chief Spatial Analysis, for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] USGS National Wetlands Research Center, 337-266-8556, [email protected]

Project Name: Canyon De Chelly National Monument Project Name: Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: Canyon De Chelley National Monument is an Summary: The Trust seeks to maintain the viability of early example of shared stewardship between the rangeland agriculture while ensuring the long-term National Park Service and the Navajo Nation. stewardship and health of Colorado Rangelands. Contact: Scott Travis, Superintendent, Canyon De Chelley Website: cca.beef.org/pages/ccalt-home.htm National Monument, National Park Service, Contact: Lynne Sherrod, Executive Director, Colorado 928-674-5500 ext 224 Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CALT), 303-431-6422, [email protected]

Project Name: Central Texas Sustainability Partnership Project Name: Colorado River Refuge Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: Conﬂict over habitat for two endangered species Summary: Pines and Prairies Land Trust worked with resulted in a diverse working group able to government and private entities to acquire 1.5 address the needs of both the species and affected miles of Colorado River frontage near downtown landowners. Bastrop, Texas to create the ﬁrst free county park in Contact: Steve Manning, Leon River Restoration Project, Bastrop. Central Texas Cattlemen’s Association, Website: pinesandprairieslandtrust.org 254-865-2054, [email protected] Contact: Carrie F. Knox, President, Pines and Prairies Land Trust, 512-308-1911, [email protected]

212 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Controlling Invasive Tamarisk in Aravaipa Canyon Project Name: Diablo Canyon Rural Planning Area Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Summary: Control of invasive plants in the entire Summary: One Innovative Diablo Trust Project-- creating management area has become a priority Arizona’s ﬁrst rural planning area to provide shared across interest groups–from ranchers to economic opportunities in support of private conservationists–who are stakeholders in the area. landholders and traditional uses while preserving Contact: Diana Turner, AZ Native Plant Society, open spaces. (520) 888-9282, [email protected] Website: www.diablotrust.org Contact: Hadassah Holland Ziegler, Program & Administrative Manager, The Diablo Trust, 928-523-0588, [email protected]

Project Name: Cooperative and Integrated Remediation and Project Name: Diablo Trust Restoration planning Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: The purpose of the Diablo Trust is to maintain Summary: The Trustees collaborated with the Port and the Diablo Trust ranches as long-term, economically Corps of Engineers and matched WRDA 204 funds viable enterprises managed in harmony with the with the Bailey Site settlement to create 100 salt- natural environment and the broader community. marsh acres. Website: www.diablotrust.org Website: response.restoration.noaa.gov/cpr/cpr.html Contact: Hadassah Holland, Administrative and Program Contact: Ron Gouguet, NOAA Coastal Resource Coordinator Manager, Diablo Trust, (928) 523-0588, Chief, NOAA, 206-526-6938, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Cooperative Conservation in Louisiana Project Name: Diablo Trust IMfoS (Integrated Monitoring for Location: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana Sustainability) Project Summary: Partnership seeks to restore thousands of acres Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona of black bear, waterfowl and songbird habitat Summary: The IMfoS Project designs and implements, with throughout Louisiana’s “hardwood rain forest”. stakeholder input, an integrated monitoring tool Website: www.bbcc.org and www.la.nrcs.usda.gov to evaluate the sustainability of community-based Contact: Donald W. Gohmert, State Conservationist, NRCS, collaborative management. 318-473-7751, [email protected] Website: www.envsci.nau.edu/sisklab/research_projects/ rangelands_website/projects_imfos.htm Contact: Tischa A. Munoz-Erickson, Project Manager, NAU, Center for Environmental Sciences and Education, 928-523-2237, [email protected]

Project Name: Culebra Range Community Coalition Project Name: Dixie and Fishlake National Forest Plan Revision Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Effort Summary: The Coalition works with a broad base of Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah community partners to restore forest health, Summary: The Dixie and Fishlake National Forests are improve wildlife habitat, reduce risk of unnatural collaboratively revising our Forest Plans. We have ﬁre, and facilitate small diameter timber based worked closely with people in over 100 workshops businesses. to develop a vision for managing these forests. Contact: Tom Perry, President, Culebra Range Community Website: www.fs.fed.us/r4/dixie/projects/FParea/HomePage. Coalition, 719-868-3331, [email protected] htm Contact: Kenton Call, Public Affairs Specialist, Dixie National Forest, (435) 865-3730, [email protected]

Project Name: Dairy Compost Utilization Project Name: Dolores River Dialogue Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: Central Texas’ dairy industry comprises 165 Summary: The Dialogue is a consensus building effort to dairies, more than 100,000 cows, and contributes improve the ﬂows on the Dolores River in Colorado potentially polluting wastewater runoff to the below the McPhee Dam. area’s waters. Website: www.sanjuancitizens.org/dolores/dolores.shtml Website: compost.tamu.edu Contact: Chuck Wanner, Water Issues, San Juan Citizens Contact: Dr. C. Allan Jones, Director, Texas Water Resources Alliance, 970-259-3583, [email protected] Institute, 979-845-1851, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 213 Project Name: Dry Hollow Agricultural and Wildlife Preservation Project Name: Forest Bird Study - Lake Jackson, Texas Initiative Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: Forest Bird Study Group conducts surveys, captures Summary: A private, non-proﬁt land trust uses conservation and bands wintering birds, and measures structure easements to help landowners preserve nine and composition of the woods where birds live. working ranches and wildlife preserves in the Contact: Wylie C. Barrow, Research Wildlife Biologist, U. S. rural, scenic Dry Hollow drainage prized as wildlife Geological Survey, 337-266-8668, habitat [email protected] Website: www.avlt.org Contact: Martha Cochran, Executive Director, Aspen Valley Land Trust, 970-963-8440, [email protected]

Project Name: Eagle River Assembly Project Name: Fort Still Private Lands Initiative Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: Oklahoma Summary: The Assembly addresses legal property interests in Summary: A broad-based coalition of interests has come the Eagle River Basin while preserving the quality together to identify common concerns and of life and outstanding environmental conditions provide a mechanism for de-conﬂicting economic, present in the Eagle River. environmental, and social needs in positive ways. Website: nps.sonoran.org/cs_eaglerv.htm Website: www.landlegacy.com/index.asp?page=new&issue=2 Contact: Chris Treese, (970) 945-8522, [email protected] 0040002 Contact: Steve Bonner, Community Planner, NPS Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance, 512-916-5163, [email protected]

Project Name: Eastside Reinvestment Area Project Name: French Gulch Remediation Opportunities Group Location: South-Central/South-West: Oklahoma Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: Redevelopment design/action plans created for Summary: FROG seeks to clean up heavy metal contamination previously contaminated, underutilized sites in from the Wellington-Oro Mine in and around Oklahoma City using facilitated, public meetings to French Gulch, and to acquire mining company assure community-wide support property for community open space and affordable Website: www.okc.gov housing. Contact: Robbie Kienzle, Urban Redevelopment Specialist, Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ Ofﬁce of Economic Development, 405-297-1740, frenchgulch.html [email protected] Contact: Tim Gagen, Breckenridge Town Manager, (970) 453-3161, [email protected]

Project Name: Envision Utah Project Name: Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: Envision Utah, an unparalleled public-private Summary: The Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership is partnership, educates citizens about urban growth a dynamic partnership of federal, state and local and methods for maintaining quality of life and governments, land-management agencies, private natural beauty. landowners, conservation organizations and others. Website: www.envisionutah.org Website: www.frftp.org Contact: Alan Matheson, Executive Director, Coalition for Contact: David Hessel, Coordinator, FRFTP, Colorado State Utah’s Future, 801-303-1452, Forest Service, 303.635.1597, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Fire-affected Community Restoration and Recovery Project Name: Grand County / BLM Recreation Partnerships Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah Summary: Volunteer Task Force provides opportunities for Summary: Through county and agency agreements, the volunteers to participate in ecological restoration BLM Sand Flats Recreation Area and the Moab and citizen science projects that benefit fire- and Information Center are managed by non-federal drought-affected communities in the Southwest. partners. Website: www.volunteertaskforce.org/VTF%20Home.htm Website: www.discovermoab.com/sandflats.htm and www. Contact: John Hogan, Physical Scientist, U. S. Geological discovermoab.com/visitorcenter.htm Survey, 505-662-1963, [email protected] Contact: Russ von Koch, Recreation Branch Chief, Moab BLM Field Office, 435-259-2119, [email protected]

214 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve Project Name: Houston-Galveston Navigation Channels Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: The preserve protects and restores local wetlands Summary: Inter-agency coordination effort restores key that provide crucial habitat for millions of commercial navigation channel, using dredged migrating and resident birds. materials to create two islands and over 4,000 acres Website: nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/utah/ of wetlands in Galveston bay. preserves/art5834.html Website: www.betterbay.org/html/home.html Contact: Chris Brown, Preserve Manager, Great Salt Lake Contact: Scott Aspelin, Environmental Affairs Compliance Shorelands Preserve, (801) 531-0999, christopher_ Coordinator, Port of Houston Authority, [email protected] 713-670-2589, [email protected]

Project Name: Great Sand Dunes National Park Project Name: Integrating Science with Resource Management: Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Mesa Verde National Park Summary: The 97,000-acre Baca Ranch (and senior water Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado rights associated with such ranch) were acquired by Summary: Partnership workshops address science needs of the Nature Conservancy for ultimate disposition to management of pinyon-juniper woodlands by the US to create the Great Sand Dunes Nat’l Park. modeling consequences of differing treatments and Website: nature.org/success/bacaranch.html evaluating consequences of various actions. Contact: Charles Bedford, State Director, The Nature Contact: Christine Turner, Research Geologist, U. S. Conservancy of Colorado, (303) 444-2950, Geological Survey, 303-236-1561, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership Project Name: James Bates Blue Hole County Park Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: The Partnership works collaboratively in the Summary: Developed a 300+ acre County park facility to Flagstaff region to restore native ecosystems, preserve key wetlands and provide the public access protect communities from destructive wildﬁre, and to a recreational area enhance economic opportunities for community Contact: Darrell H. Schwebel, President, Cradle of Texas enterprises. Conservancy, Inc, (979)285-2173, Website: www.gffp.org [email protected] Contact: Steve Gatewood, Program Director, Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership, 928-226-0644, [email protected]

Project Name: Greater Ruidoso Area Wildland Urban Interface Project Name: Jemez Mountains Forest/Fire Restoration Project Group (GRAWUIG) Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Summary: The aim of this collaborative project is to restore Summary: Through collaboration and cooperation among its forest health and ﬁre regimes in the Jemez diverse members, GRAWUIG has improved over Mountains using science-based assessment, 22,000 acres, and developed a Community Wildﬁre planning and management. Protection Plan. Website: nmconservation.org Contact: Jose M. Martinez, Forest Supervisor, USDA Forest Contact: Anne Bradley, Fire Initiative Manager, The Nature Service, 505-434-7200, [email protected] Conservancy, 505-988-3867, [email protected]

Project Name: Henry Mountain Bison Herd Project Name: Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Summary: Sportsmen and ranchers negotiate win-win Summary: Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is solutions to maintain livestock grazing and ensure jointly managed by BLM and the Pueblo de Cochti, quality bison hunts in the Utah Henry Mountains. with support from county and State partners. Contact: Don Peay, Henry Mountain Sportsmen for Habitat, Website: www.http://www.nm.blm.gov/recreation/ 801-635-5576, albuquerque/kasha_katuwe.htm Contact: Mr. Donald Suina, Monument Liaison, Pueblo de Cochiti, 505-465-2244,

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 215 Project Name: Kiowa National Grassland Integrated Resource Project Name: Las Humanas Management Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Summary: Las Humanas is working to develop and sustain a Summary: This project involves managing the 136,505-acre local workforce to restore and care for the natural National Grassland in northeastern New Mexico for resources of the Manzano Mountains region. greater productivity and healthier forage. Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/humanas. Website: www.fs.fed.us/r3/cibola/districts/kiowa/shtml html Contact: Nancy Walls, US Forest Service - Kiowa and Rita Contact: George Ramirez, Chairman, Las Humanas, Blanca National Grasslands, (505) 374-9652, (505) 847-0736, [email protected]

Project Name: Land Restoration/Revegetation – Fort Hood Project Name: Leopard Darter Recovery Plan Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas, Oklahoma Summary: Dairy compost was used to revegetate degraded Summary: The project will facilitate genetic exchange training maneuver areas that caused soil erosion between fragmented populations of the federally and water quality issues. threatened leopard darter by reconnecting about Website: forthoodreveg.tamu.edu 50 river miles. Contact: Dr. C. Allan Jones, Director, Texas Water Resources Contact: Marcia C. M. de Almeida, Fish Passage Interim Institute, 979-845-1851, [email protected] Coordinator R9, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 703-358-1941, [email protected]

Project Name: Landmark Grand Canyon Conservation Project Project Name: Lone Star Legacy Red Drum Hatchery Project Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: The Conservation Fund and Grand Canyon Trust are Summary: Three facilities along the Texas coast are dedicated protecting nearly 900,000 acres stretching from the to marine fisheries research and hatchery north rim of the Grand Canyon. production; these replenishment efforts form the Website: www.conservationfund.org centerpiece of the state’s sportfishing industry. Contact: Mike Ford, The Conservation Fund, (702) 990-3540, Website: www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fish/hatch/ccacpl.phtml [email protected] Contact: Pat Murray, Texas Chairman, Coastal Conservation Association, 713-626-4234,

Project Name: Landscape Change on Native Lands: Southern Project Name: Long-term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Colorado Plateau Gardens Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah, New Mexico, Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Arizona, Colorado Summary: Cooperative monitoring is allowing government Summary: Land use plans are developed using fundamental agencies and energy companies to determine geologic information to identify landscape mobility, within an adaptive management framework best stability, and its relationship to local environmental drilling practices consistent with coral reef health. conditions. Contact: Thomas Readinger, USDI Minerals Management Website: wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/wgmt/navajo/index.html Service, 202-208-3530, [email protected] Contact: Margaret Hiza Redsteer, Project Coordinator, U. S. Geological Survey, 928 556-7366, [email protected]

Project Name: Landscape Change, Grassland Health, and Bark Project Name: Los Caminos Antiguos Byways Partnership Beetle Infestation Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Summary: Partners are using the byway to preserve and Summary: Remotely sensed satellite data are used to develop protect cultural diversity; facilitate economic maps and GIS layers that enable the San Carlos community development; and to preserve and Apache Tribe to manage their lands. protect the land and water. Contact: Edwin L. Pfeifer, Acting Team Chief, U. S. Geological Website: www.loscaminos.com/ Survey, 520-670-5019, [email protected] Contact: Ann Marie Velaquez, Executive Director, Los Caminos Antiguos Scenic and Historic Byway, 719-376-5225, [email protected]

216 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Louisiana Coastal Area Land Change Study Group Project Name: Mountain Plover Conservation Efforts in Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: Multi-year, multi-agency coastal restoration and Summary: Several organizations partnered together to rehabilitation project responding to loss of 1,900 conduct research on over 300,000 acres of farm square miles of coastal land and marsh during the land in Colorado. Due to cooperative efforts, the 20th century. plover was not listed as an Endangered Species. Website: lca.gov Contact: Jared Koch, Director of National Affairs, Colorado Contact: James B. Johnston, Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Farm Bureau, 303-749-7500, [email protected] 337-266-8556, [email protected]

Project Name: Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Project Name: Neches River Saltwater Barrier Study Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana Summary: The project insures freshwater availability for Summary: The Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration municipal, agricultural and industrial uses as well as Study uses partnerships, science, and geospatial/ providing for ﬁsh and wildlife habitat protection. visualization technologies to address land loss. Website: www.lnva.dst.tx.us/ Website: www.lca.gov/index.aspx Contact: Robert Stroder, General Manager, Lower Neches Contact: R. King Milling, Chairman, Governor’s Advisory Valley Authority, 409-892-4011, Commission on Coastal Restoration and [email protected] Conservation, 504-586-7176, rmilling@whitneybank. com

Project Name: Malpai Borderlands Partnership Project Name: New Mexico Collaborative Forest Restoration Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona, New Mexico Program (CFRP) Summary: The rancher-led partnership is protecting privately- Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico owned land and working landscapes through Summary: $18 million awarded for collaborative forest easements, grass-banking and habitat restoration. restoration, hazardous fuel reduction, or small Website: www.malpaiborderlandsgroup.org diameter utilization treatment on 15,000 acres of Contact: Bill McDonald, Director, Malpai Borderlands Group, forest land. 520-558-2475, [email protected] Contact: Walter Dunn, Program Coordinator, USDA Forest Service, 505-842-3425, [email protected]

Project Name: Mancos Shale Terrains & Gunnison Gorge Project Project Name: New Mexico Collaborative Watershed Projects Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Summary: The project examines geologic sources of elevated Summary: The New Mexico Collaborative Watershed Projects salinity and selenium that negatively impact are cooperative community based efforts to water quality for community water supplies and improve water quality in New Mexico. agriculture. Contact: Sarah Walen, Senior Mediator, Meridian Institute, Website: minerals.cr.usgs.gov/projects/mancos_shale/task1. 970-513-8340 ext. 221, [email protected] html Contact: Richard Grauch, Research Geologist, U. S. Geological Survey, 303-236-5551, [email protected]

Project Name: Marsh Terracing Project Project Name: New Mexico Forestry Camp, Chaparral Girl Scout Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Camp Summary: The project incorporated marsh terracing to restore Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico ﬁshery habitat and to test the cost effectiveness of Summary: Over 1000 youth have attended the camp and this new restoration technique. emerged with a better understanding of forest Website: www.galvbay.org management and natural resource conservation. Contact: Mr. Bob Stokes, President, Galveston Bay Contact: Jean Szymanski, Public Affairs, USDA Forest Service, Foundation, 281-332-3381, [email protected] 505-842-3325, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 217 Project Name: New Mexico Habitat Stamp Program Project Name: Oklahoma Wildlife Alliance Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: Oklahoma Summary: Directly engaged the public in planning for $10 Summary: Oklahoma Wildlife and Prairie Heritage Alliance million in habitat restoration on 380,000 acres and (OWPHA) provides a trusted and open forum 506 water sources on public lands. for private landowners to engage with resource Contact: Don DeLorenzo, Director, Wildlife, Fish and managers and conservation programs. Rare Plants, USDA Forest Service, 505-842-3260, Website: www.owpha.org [email protected] Contact: Trapper Heglin, Coordinator, Oklahoma Wildlife and Prairie Heritage Alliance, (580) 735-2322, [email protected]

Project Name: New Mexico Rails to Trails Association Project Name: Owl Mountain Partnership (OMP) Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: Partnership to turn over twenty-ﬁve miles Summary: A community based, collaborative partnership to of abandoned railroad grades into multi-use create and implement a regional land-use ethic and recreational trails, including some with handicap demonstrate sustainable resource management on access. a landscape scale. Contact: Tom Springer, President, New Mexico Rails Website: www.northpark.org/owlmtn/ to Trails Association, Inc, 505-682-3040, Contact: Jerry Jack, Project Manager, Owl Mountain [email protected] Partnership, 970-723-0020, [email protected]

Project Name: North Central Texas Water Quality Project Name: Paradis Mitigation Bank Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana Summary: Develop watershed management plans for six Summary: After more than seven decades of energy reservoirs in the Trinity River Basin providing water production for the Nation, the 7100-acre Paradis for 1.6 million people. Mitigation Bank will protect, restore and enhance Website: nctx-water.tamu.edu wetland functions and values of the Lower Contact: Dr. C. Allan Jones, Director, Texas Water Resources Mississippi Valley. Institute, 979-845-1851, [email protected] Website: under construction Contact: Eric Frasier, President, Frasier Group, Inc., 936-569-9428, efrasier@cox-internet. com

Project Name: Northwest Colorado Stewardship Project Name: Pathfinder Project Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: Northwest Colorado Stewardship seeks to engage a Summary: The Pathfinder Project is a pilot program wide diversity of local interests in working together that through its involvement with an array of to find solutions to previously intractable natural stakeholders works to define a process to provide resource management issues. for water management on National Forest lands in Website: www.nwcos.org Colorado. Contact: Jeremy Casterson, Planning and Environmental Website: www.GMUGpathfinder.org Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management, Contact: Gary Shellhorn, Pathfinder Project Manager, USDA 970) 826-5071, [email protected] Forest Service, 970-874-6666, [email protected]

Project Name: Oklahoma Master Naturalist Program Project Name: Pathfinders on the Colorado “GMUG” National Location: South-Central/South-West: Oklahoma Forests Summary: The goal of this program is to train a core of Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado naturalists who then provide volunteer services, Summary: Pathfinders developed 27 strategies to achieve which includes environmental education, habitat instream flows without imposing restrictions on enhancement, and public understanding of water diversions in 3 Colorado National Forests. ecosystems. Website: www.gmugpathfinder.org Website: www.okmasternaturalist.org Contact: Chris Treese, External Affairs, Colorado River Water Contact: Sharon Bennett, President, OK Master Naturalist Conservation District, 970-945-8522, Central Chapter, Oklahoma Master Naturalist [email protected] Program, 580-335-2289, [email protected]

218 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Phelps Dodge/Gila River Indian Community Water Project Name: Quintana Beach County Park Rights Settlement Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Summary: Property was acquired to develop a county park. Summary: After almost 80 years of litigation, Phelps Dodge The park has been utilized to educate the public parted company with the many non-Indian parties and school groups on conservation practices and to settle water rights claims in 1998 with the Gila the need to conserve wetland areas. River Indian Community in Central Arizona. Contact: Darrell H. Schwebel, President, Cradle of Texas Contact: Bill Cobb, Director, Environment Department, Conservancy, Inc., (979)285-2173, Phelps Dodge Corporation, (602) 366-8100, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership Project Name: Quivira Coalition Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Summary: The partnership aims to improve the health of the Summary: The Coalition fosters ecological, economic, and ponderosa pine forest and support the private social health on western landscapes through timber industry, a key component of the local education, innovation, collaboration, and economy in Montezuma county. progressive public and private land stewardship. Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ponderosa. Website: www.quiviracoalition.org html Contact: Courtney White, Executive Director, Quivira Contact: Carla Harper, Coordinator, Ponderosa Pine Forest Coalition, (505) 820-2544, Partnership, (970) 565-6061, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Preserving the Desert Foothills Project Name: Red Cliffs Desert Reserve Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah Summary: The Desert Foothills Land Trust is launching a five- Summary: The reserve provides habitat and protection for year, public-private partnership to preserve some the threatened Mojave Desert tortoise (Gopherus of the most ecologically and archaeologically agassizi) under Washington County’s habitat important areas in the Phoenix Metro area. conservation plan. Website: www.dflt.org Website: www.redcliffsdesertreserve.com Contact: Michael Rigney, Executive Director, Desert Foothills Contact: Bill Mader, Administrator, Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, Land Trust, 480-488-6131, mrigney@dflt.org (435) 634-5759, [email protected]

Project Name: Public Access Management as an Adaptive Wildlife Project Name: Refugio-Goliad Prairie Restoration Project Management Tool Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: A partnership of private landowners and Summary: Developing an adaptive management approach to conservation partners working to maintain and understand and address impacts of motor vehicle enhance a 100,000 acre complex of coastal prairie, trafﬁc and growing elk population on declining once home to the endangered Attwater’s Prairie Gunnison Sage Grouse population. Chicken. Contact: Raymond D. Watts, Research Scientist, U. S. Website: training.fws.gov/library/Pubs4/prairie_bookmark.pdf Geological Survey, 970-226-9378, [email protected] Contact: Mark Dumesnil, Texas Gulf Coast Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy/ Texas Chapter (361) 882-3582, [email protected]

Project Name: Public Lands Partnership Project Name: Restoration and Management of the Tavasci Marsh Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado in Arizona as a Wetland and Wildlife Habitat Summary: The partnership seeks to inﬂuence the management Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona of Western Colorado’s public lands in ways that Summary: Phelps Dodge acquired the drained Tavasci Marsh, enhance and help maintain diverse, healthy and Arizona’s largest non-Colorado River freshwater viable economies, environments, and communities. marsh, and entered into a successful agreement Website: www.upproject.org/UPP/PLP.html with the State of Arizona to restore it as a wetland. Contact: Mary Chapman, Coordinator, Public Lands Contact: [email protected], Director - Environment Partnership, (970) 874-8806, [email protected] Department, Phelps Dodge Corporation, (602) 366-8100, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 219 Project Name: Restoration of the San Jacinto State Battleﬁeld Project Name: Rio Grande Basin Initiative Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico, Texas Summary: The Texas Coastal Wetlands Corporate Partnership Summary: The Rio Grande Basin is a highly productive seeks to restore the coastal prairie, coastal agricultural area, with irrigated agriculture claiming forest, and the marshes of the San Jacinto State more than 85 percent of its water. Battleﬁeld. Website: riogrande.tamu.edu Website: www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/sanjac/marshtour.phtml Contact: Dr. B.L. Harris, Project Director, Associate Director, Contact: John Bowie, Project Manager, Duke Energy Gas Texas Water Resources Institute, 979-845-1851, Transmission, 713-989-8345, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Restoring Endangered Kemp Ridley Sea Turtles at Project Name: Rio Grande Riverpark Padre Island National Seashore Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: National Park Service convened the Riverpark Task Summary: The recovery program for the Kemp Ridley Turtle Force, provided guidance on funding, and then is a major cooperative effort resulting in the actively engaged the community in trail design, beginning re-establishment of a turtle colony on construction, public art and celebrations. Padre Island and adjacent areas on the Gulf Coast. Website: www.nps.gov/rtca Contact: Colin Campbell, Superintendent, Padre Island Contact: Paul Cusumano, Outdoor Recreation Planner, National Seashore, National Park Service, National Park Service, (505) 988-6093, 361-949-8173 ext 229, [email protected]

Project Name: Rich County Wildlife Habitat Conservation Project Name: Roan Plateau Resource Management Plan Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah Amendment Summary: The partnership will improve 24,000 acres of Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado shrubsteppe habitat and collect pre- and post- Summary: Community based partnership for development treatment response data for vegetation and of a Resource Management Plan for 73,602 acres wildlife. of federal land within Garﬁeld and Rio Blanco Contact: John Fairchild, Habitat Conservation Coordinator, Counties, Colorado. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, 801-538-4766, Website: www.co.blm.gov/gsra/RoanPlateauNovember2004. [email protected] htm. Contact: Jamie Connell, Glenwood Springs Field Ofﬁce Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 970-947-2800, [email protected]

Project Name: Rigs-to-Reefs Policy Project Name: Ruidoso River Association Location: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana, Texas, Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Southeastern: Alabama, Mississippi Summary: The Association seeks to preserve and protect a Summary: Rigs-to-Reef Policy encourages offshore oil healthy, free-ﬂowing Rio Ruidoso by improving companies to donate decommissioned rigs for reef- both the quality and quantity of water in the river building by reef-associated organisms. and restoring its high-quality cold water ﬁshery. Contact: Thomas Readinger, Minerals Management Services, Website: ruidosoriver.com/ 202-208-3530, [email protected] Contact: Dick Wisner, Executive Director, Ruidoso River Association, (505) 257-9494, [email protected]

Project Name: Rio Arriba County Project Project Name: Salt Cedar Brush Management Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: Partners identified BLM lands next to communities Summary: Texas Landowners with federal cost-share funds are for transfer to and future development by private eradicating Salt Cedar in sections of the Canadian owners in exchange for conservation easements. River to increase flow and benefit listed fish species. Website: www.sonoran.org Website: www.crmwa.com/news13ars.htm Contact: Luther Probst, Executive Director, The Sonoran Contact: Norman Bade, Assistant State Conservationist Institute, 520-290-0828 ext209, [email protected] (Programs), USDA-NRCS, 254-742-9800, [email protected]

220 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Sand Flats Recreation Area, Grand County, Utah Project Name: Southeastern New Mexico Working Group Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Summary: Partners entered into a cooperative agreement for Summary: Goal: To create a conservation strategy for the local management of the federal recreation area. lesser prairie chicken and the sand dune lizard that Project has benefited both the recreation area and will lessen the need for federal protection while the nearby community of Moab. allowing for ranching and oil & gas development. Website: discovermoab.com/sandflats.htm and discovermoab. Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ com/visitorcenter. senewmexicowg.html Contact: Bob Ratcliffe, Deputy Group Manager, Recreation Contact: Bob Findling, Conservation Project Director, The and Visitor Services, Bureau of Land Management, Nature Conservancy, (505) 988-1542, 202-452-5040, [email protected] rfi[email protected]

Project Name: Houston Toad Recovery Project Name: Southern Arkansas Environmental Improvement Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Project Summary: Recovery of the Houston toad by providing Location: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas safe harbor assurances and incentives to private Summary: A complex partnership has signiﬁcant success landowners for their participation in habitat conducting outreach, monitoring cleanups, and restoration and enhancement. conducting compliance inspections of past and Contact: David Wolfe, Senior Scientist, Environmental present oil ﬁelds. Defense, 512-691-3415, [email protected] Contact: Gary Looney, Manager-Permitting and Field Services, Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission, 870-862-4965, [email protected]

Project Name: Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Ecosystem Restoration Project Name: Southwest Strategy Project Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona, New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas Summary: Partners work in collaboration with each other and Summary: Through thinning and prescribed burning, this the public to restore and maintain the cultural, ecosystem has been restored on over 50,000 acres, economic and environmental quality of life in the leading to population increases in ﬁve declining states of Arizona and New Mexico. species. Website: www.swstrategy.org Website: www.nwanews.com/story_print.php?paper=adg&Sp Contact: Beth Oms, Executive Director, Southwest Strategy, orts=section&storyid=109953 505-248-6914, [email protected] Contact: L. D. Hedrick, Team Leader for Integrated Resource Management, USDA Forest Service, 501-321-5270, [email protected]

Project Name: Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership Project Name: Southwestern Fire Learning Network Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona, Colorado, New Summary: Disparate and previously conﬂicted interests Mexico, Texas collaborated to develop a watershed-wide plan to Summary: Project goal is to accelerate restoration of ﬁre- promote ecological health. adapted ecosystems on private & public lands Website: www.sonoran.org/programs/si_sdep_sonoita.html through applied science, coordination and Contact: Jeff Williamson, CEO/President, Arizona collaboration. Zoological Society, Phoenix Zoo, 602-914-4325, Website: tnc-ecomanagement.org/Fire/ [email protected] Contact: Anne Bradley, Fire Initiative Manager, The Nature Conservancy, (505) 988-3867, [email protected]

Project Name: Sonoran Pronghorn Captive Breeding Program Project Name: Storm Ranch Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: A cooperative captive breeding program was Summary: The Storm Ranch is a 5680 acre conservation established in Arizona to halt the decline of the partnership that will protect water quality, endangered Sonoran Pronghorn and to seed new endangered species, scenic vistas, and the area’s populations of the species in the state. rural heritage. Contact: Mr. John Hervert, Wildlife Biologist, Arizona Website: hillcountryconservancy.org Department of Game and Fish, 928-342-0091, Contact: Fred Ellis, Director of government and community [email protected] affairs, Hill Country Conservancy, (512) 328-2481, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 221 Project Name: Taos Grass Bank Project Project Name: Upper San Pedro Partnership Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Summary: The project entails creation of a grass bank that will Summary: A consortium comprised of 21 local, state and provide alternative pasturage for permittees, thus federal agencies and organizations whose goal is to allowing them to rest their grazing allotments for ensure an adequate long-term groundwater supply the purpose of range restoration. for both residents and the Upper San Pedro River. Contact: Ron Huntsinger, former Field Manager Taos Ofﬁce, Website: www.usppartnership.com/index.html Bureau of Land Management, 661-391-6006, Contact: Carl Robie, Outreach Committee Chair, Upper San [email protected] Pedro Partnership, (520) 559-3708,

Project Name: Texas Hill Country Land Owner Conservation Project Name: Upper Verde River Adaptive Management Assistance Program Partnership (UVRAMP) Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Summary: Challenge is to restore and enhance habitat on Summary: UVRAMP has improved the ﬂow of information and ranchland that serves the needs of the Black relationships between stakeholders, and become Capped Vireo and the Golden-Cheeked Warbler, a model for collaboratively addressing complex both listed species. All project sites are on private natural resource issues. lands. Website: www.fs.fed.us/rm/main/pa/newsclips/02_02/020502_ Contact: Kim Sharp, Program Coordinator, Environmental prescott.html Defense, 512-478-5161, [email protected] Contact: Dan Neary, Project Leader, USDA Forest Service, 928-556-2176, [email protected]

Project Name: Texas Master Naturalist Program Project Name: Utah Prairie Dog Recovery/Back From the Brink Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Program/Environmental Defense Summary: Master Naturalist volunteers provide education, Location: South-Central/South-West: Utah outreach and service dedicated to beneﬁcial Summary: This partnership’s new approach has begun to show management of natural resources and natural areas that private landowners will participate in the within their communities. recovery of listed species, even controversial ones, Website: www.masternaturalist.tamu.edu given the right incentives. Contact: Michelle Haggerty, State Coordinator, Texas Website: www.environmentaldefense.org/go/ Master Naturalist Program, (979) 458-2034, conservationincentives [email protected] Contact: Theodore P. Toombs, Ecologist, Environmental Defense, 303-447-7210, [email protected]

Project Name: Thunderbird/Tajique Landscape Projects Project Name: Valles Caldera National Preserve Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Location: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico Summary: Two landscape-scale projects with large partnerships Summary: The goal is to preserve the working landscape and are working to reduce fire hazard, improve protect the biological, geologic, recreational, and forest health, and create jobs for community cultural resources of the region. sustainability. Website: www.vallescaldera.gov Website: www.fs.fed.us/projects/hfi/examples/cibola-nf.shtml Contact: Julie Grey, Communications Manager, Valles Contact: Phil Archuleta, Chief Executive Office, P&M Signs, Caldera National Preserve, (505) 661-3333, 505-847-2850, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Uncompahgre Plateau Project Project Name: West Bay Conservation Corridor Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: Texas Summary: “UP” is a collaborative agency/community-based Summary: Conservation groups are working with the State effort to restore the wildlife, native plants and of Texas and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service natural ecological functions of the Uncompahgre to restore a corridor of marshlands along the Plateau. Galveston area coast. A private developer donated Website: www.upproject.org $2.5 M. Contact: Mary Chapman, Director, Public Lands Partnership, Website: TexasCoastalProgram.fws.gov 970-874-8806, [email protected] Contact: John Huffman, Project Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 281-286-8282, [email protected]

222 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: West Branch Restoration Project, Arizona Project Name: Woodlands Trail and Park, Inc. Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana Summary: West Branch landowners and the Arizona Open Summary: As an American Heritage Rivers “Keystone” projects Land Trust partnered to restore and enhance for Louisiana, Woodlands Trail and Park, Inc. is wildlife habitat along the West Branch of the Santa uniting the river communities of Orleans and Cruz River. Plaquemines Parish with a series of greenways. Website: www.aolt.org Website: www.woodlandstrail.com Contact: Vanessa Bechtol, Project Director, Arizona Open Contact: Katie Brasted, President, Woodlands Trail and Park, Land Trust, 520-577-8564, [email protected] Inc., (504) 433-4000, [email protected]

Project Name: Wet Mountain Valley Project Name: Yampa River System Legacy Project Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Location: South-Central/South-West: Colorado Summary: The Trust for Public Land is involved in an initiative Summary: This voluntary, incentive-based project protects to acquire conservation easements in the Wet the ecological health of the Yampa River and the Mountain Valley in Colorado. productive agricultural lands it supports, while also Website: www.tpl.org providing for recreational opportunities. Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/yampa.html for Public Land, 202-543-7552, Contact: Susan Dorsey Otis, Director, Yampa Valley Land Trust, (970) 879-7240, [email protected]

Project Name: Wetlands Partnership Location: South-Central/South-West: Arkansas Far West Region Summary: Project converts agricultural land to public wetland and wildlife management area. Contact: Kalven L. Trice, State Conservationist, USDA/NRCS, (501) 301-3100, [email protected]

Project Name: White Mountain Apache Tribe Project Name: Afognak Island Timber Road Removal Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: Far West: Alaska Summary: The White Mountain Apache Tribe has created Summary: Afognak Island’s wild salmon, Kodiak bears and innovative strategies for balancing economic Roosevelt Elk habitat within an active timber development and resource conservation. harvest region is being rapidly restored through Contact: John Caid, Director, Wildlife and Outdoor road removal, tree replanting and disturbance Recreation Division, White Mountain Apache Tribe, reduction. 928-338-4385, [email protected] Website: www.wildlifeforever.org Contact: Douglas H. Grann, President & CEO, Wildlife Forever, 763-253-0222, [email protected]

Project Name: White Mountain Stewardship Project Project Name: Alaska Integrated Pest Management Program Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona Location: Far West: Alaska Summary: A 10-year stewardship contract was awarded to Summary: This model collaborative program contacts over thin 150,000 acres of forest to protect communities 10,000 clients annually, successfully mobilizing from wildﬁre and stimulate wood industry. the public to adopt integrated pest management Website: www.fs.fed.us/r3/asnf practices on their land. Contact: Steve Campbell, Navajo County Director, University Website: www.uaf.edu/coop-ext/ipm/index.html of Arizona, Cooperative Extension, 928-524-6271, Contact: Fred Sorensen, IPM Program Coordinator, University [email protected] of Alaska Fairbanks, Cooperative Extension Service, 907-786-6311, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 223 Project Name: American Forests and Mountains to Sound Project Name: Bahia Acquisition and Wetland Restoration Project Greenway Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Washington Summary: Project to permanently protect a 632-acre property Summary: This project planted native trees on former logging consisting of unique native oak woodlands and roads to create a continuous “greenbelt” along diked/ﬁlled wetlands and to restore signiﬁcant Interstate 90 in order to improve surrounding acreage of tidal wetlands. habitats. Contact: Barbara Salzman, President, Marin Audubon Website: www.americanforests.org Society, 415 924-6057, [email protected] Contact: Deborah Gangloff, Executive Director, American Forests, (202) 737-1944, [email protected]

Project Name: Applegate Partnership Project Name: Beatty Habitat Committee Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Nevada Summary: Most of the Applegate Partnership’s focus for Summary: The Committee is developing a trails project along projects is forest restoration while also creating the Amargosa River in Oasis Valley meant to opportunities for local employment. enhance tourism and protect the Amargosa toad as Website: www.mind.net/app/aphandou.htm; well as other native plants and animals. Contact: Jack Shipley, North Applegate Watershed Protection Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ Association, 541 846-6917 beattyhabitat.html Contact: Jim Moore, Oasis Valley Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy, (702) 737-8744, Ext. 19, [email protected]

Project Name: Arroyo Seco Watershed Restoration Program Project Name: Big Creek Habitat Restoration Project Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: The Arroyo Seco Watershed Restoration Program Summary: A diverse group of partners provided a continuity is developing a comprehensive, long-term program of restored stream habitat within Big Creek that to manage and restore the grand canyon that runs will beneﬁt water quality, salmon, and other stream from the San Gabriel Mountains to downtown Los and riparian resources. Angeles. Contact: Elaine Raper, Field Manager, Umpqua Resource Website: www.arroyoseco.org Area, Bureau of Land Management, 541-751-4466, Contact: Tim Brick, Managing Director, Arroyo Seco [email protected] Foundation, (626) 792-2442, [email protected]

Project Name: Audubon California Landowner Stewardship Project Name: Big Wood River Fishery Assessment: Healthy Program Waters, Healthy Future Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Idaho Summary: Audubon California works with farmers and Summary: This study identifies habitat as the factor limiting ranchers in the Sacramento Valley to implement the fishery and identifies threats to fish habitat. restoration projects in a manner compatible with The study suggests how local governments and existing agricultural operations. conservationists can address these issues. Website: ca.audubon.org/LSP/Willow_Slough.htm Website: www.woodriverlandtrust.org/FishReport/ Contact: Vance Russell, Program Director, Audubon FisheryAssessmentReport.html California, 530-795-2921, [email protected] Contact: Kathryn Goldman, Project Coordinator, Wood River Land Trust, (208) 788-3947, [email protected]

Project Name: Backcountry Horsemen of America Project Name: Bighorn Sheep Restoration in North America Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Summary: Developing a network of trail supporters and Washington youth programs to adopt the PCT, speciﬁcally Summary: Through research, habitat enhancements, and maintenance of a previously dilapidated 70 mile translocations, bighorn sheep have been restored section. to much of their native range. Their numbers have Website: www.backcountryhorse.com/ been increased from below 50,000 to over 200,000. Contact: Alan Hill, Public Liaison Chair, Backcountry Website: www.fnaws.org Horsemen of America, 530-221-8531, Contact: Raymond Lee, President, Foundation for North [email protected] American Wild Sheep (FNAWS), (307) 527-6261, [email protected]

224 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Brake Pad Partnership Project Name: California Resource Advisory Committees Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: California Summary: Working together, the Partners are developing the Summary: Partnerships between communities and national science needed to understand the potential role of forests, bringing together diverse interests to automobile brake pads in surface water quality and collaboratively work on watershed restoration, develop responses as needed. fuels reduction and road maintenance projects. Website: www.suscon.org/brakepad/index.asp Contact: Chris Nota, Regional Forester’s Representative, Contact: Connie Liao, Project Manager, Sustainable USDA Forest Service, 916-498-5901, [email protected] Conservation, 415-977-0380 x336, [email protected]

Project Name: Building Collaborative Stewardship, North Fork Project Name: California Tribal Partnerships Crooked River Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: A unique blend of traditional Native American Summary: Project is a model for future efforts as partners practices and today’s science preserves native work together to forestall lawsuits and establish customs and contributes to forest health. improvements on private land as well as Federal. Website: www.r5.fs.fed.us/tribal-relations Website: www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/projects/units/ Contact: Sonia Tamez, Regional Tribal Relations Program paulina/northfork/ Manager, USDA Forest Service, 707-562-8919, Contact: Janice Staats, Hydrologist, National Riparian Service [email protected] Team, (541) 416-6891, [email protected]

Project Name: Business Alliance for Sustainable Energy Project Name: Cascade Streamwatch Project Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: A joint project of 3EStrategies and the Central Summary: Cascade Streamwatch is a collaborative educational Oregon Intergovernmental Council. The goal is to outdoor site for teaching and expanding public create and expand sustainable energy projects and understanding of healthy watersheds and ﬁsheries. ﬁrms in Central Oregon. Website: www.beoutside.org/csw Website: www.3estrategies.org Contact: Dale Waddell, Executive Director, Wolftree Inc., Contact: Cylvia Hayes, Executive Director, 3EStrategies, 503-239-1820, [email protected] 541.617.9013, [email protected]

Project Name: Calapooia River, Improving Water Quality and Project Name: Cathlapotle Plankhouse Project Aquatic Habitat Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: A diverse partnership has built a full-scale cedar Summary: Assessing riparian function and water quality plankhouse to interpret the rich natural and in agricultural and forestry settings to promote cultural heritage preserved on Ridgeﬁeld National natural resource management to improve water Wildlife Refuge. quality and aquatic habitat in the Calapooia River. Website: www.plankhouse.org Contact: Stephen Schoenholtz, Professor, Oregon State Contact: Arlene Johnson, Executive Director, Lewis and University, 541.737.9112, Clark Bicentennial Committee of Vancouver/ Clark [email protected] County, 360-906-0957, [email protected]

Project Name: California OHV Stakeholders Roundtable Project Name: Central Oregon Partnership for Wildﬁre Risk Location: Far West: California Reduction Summary: The stakeholders (primarily 2 groups -- OHV users Location: Far West: Oregon and environmentalists) worked collaboratively to Summary: The Central Oregon Partnership is using small tree provide quality recreation opportunities in a safe harvests as a tool to foster health forest health and and environmentally responsible manner. build new forest-biomass industries. Website: www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs.ohv Website: www.coic.org Contact: Jerry Ingersoll, OHV Program Manager, USDA Forest Contact: Scott Aycock, Program Administrator, Central Service, 202-205-0931, [email protected] Oregon Intergovernmental Council, 541-548-9525, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 225 Project Name: Chester Creek Rehabilitation Project Project Name: Codornices Creek Watershed Restoration Action Location: Far West: Alaska Plan—CCWRAP Summary: An urban town-center development project has Location: Far West: California made conservation its top priority. The project’s Summary: Goals are to re-establish a viable Oncorhynchus partners have restored an important natural mykiss (steelhead) population in Codornices Creek resource for the people and animals who call the by creating and sustaining a science and community area “home.” based watershed protection and restoration Contact: Mark Pfeffer, CEO, Venture Development Group, program. 907-646-4644 Website: www.urbancreeks.org Contact: Emma B.L. Gutzler, Restoration Coordinator, Urban Creeks Council, 510.540.6669, [email protected]

Project Name: Clearwater National Forest/Nez Perce Tribe Aquatic Project Name: Collaborating on Regional Innovation and Services Restoration Partnership Location: Far West: California, Oregon Location: Far West: Idaho Summary: CLC is a diverse network in the N. CA and S. OR Summary: A collaborative effort between the Clearwater N.F., region integrating ecological integrity, economic the Nez Perce Tribe and other partners to restore resilience, and social well-being in the practice of watershed conditions and anadramous ﬁsheries forest and watershed stewardship. habitat in Idaho’s Clearwater River Basin. Website: www.communityforestry.net Website: www.fs.fed.us/r1/clearwater/ResourceProg/ Contact: Jude Wait, Director, Collaborative Learning Circle, watershed/watershed.htm 541-482-4353, [email protected] Contact: Anne Connor, Aquatic Restoration Engineer, USDA Forest Service Clearwater National Forest, (208) 476-8235, [email protected]

Project Name: Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound, Puget Sound Project Name: Columbia River Basin Restoration Collaboration Nearshore Partnership Location: Far West: Washington, Oregon Location: Far West: Washington Summary: Strategies from 58 locally-developed subbasin plans Summary: The partnership develops recovery programs and will guide off-site federal hydropower mitigation ecosystem restoration plans that sustain life on funding to protect and restore ﬁsh and wildlife. Puget Sound and continue the region’s economic Contact: Doug Marker, Fish and Wildlife Division Director, prosperity. Northwest Power and Conservation Council, Website: www.pugetsoundnearshore.org/ 503-222-5161, [email protected] Contact: Anne Kinsinger, Western Regional Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey, 206-220-4600, [email protected]

Project Name: Codornices Creek and Ohlone Greenway Project Name: Columbia River Estuary Spill Fund Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Oregon, Washington Summary: Working with Cities of Albany and Berkeley, Friends Summary: Partners collaborate on restoration and education of Five Creeks, an all-volunteer group, restored efforts in the lower Columbia River. native vegetation and trout habitat and built an Contact: Stephen Zylstra, Division Manager, OFWO, U.S. Fish observation railing. and Wildlife Service, (503) 231-6179, Website: www.ﬁvecreeks.org [email protected] Contact: Susan Schwartz, president, Friends of Five Creeks, 510-848-9358, [email protected]

Project Name: Codornices Creek Salmonid Restoration Project Name: Commencement Bay Natural Resource Damage Location: Far West: California Assessment and Restoration Summary: This project will form a consensus-based watershed Location: Far West: Washington council for the Codornices Watershed to coordinate Summary: This project showcases community-based restoration and monitoring activities regarding the restoration in Commencement Bay, a heavily stream’s steelhead population. urbanized, industrial area. Website: www.urbancreeks.org Website: www.darp.noaa.gov/northwest/cbay/restore.html Contact: Emma B.L. Gutzler, Restoration Coordinator, Contact: Lance Winecka, Project Manager, South Puget Urban Creeks Council, 510.540.6669, ucc_ Sound Salmon Enhancement Group, 360-412-0808, [email protected] [email protected]

226 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Community-Based Alliance for Training and Project Name: Conserving the Truckee River Canyon Sustainable Stewardship Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: Mission is to implement local public-private Summary: A partnership between the Alliance of Forest collaborative solutions to protect and improve Workers and Harvesters and Lomakatsi Restoration water quality and biological resources for the Project to link worker training with on-the-ground Truckee River watershed. project implementation in ecological restoration. Contact: Lisa Wallace, Executive Director, Truckee Contact: Denise Smith, Director, Alliance of Forest Workers & River Watershed Council, (530) 550-8760, Harvesters, 530-629-3353, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Community-Based Collaboration and Kenai Winter Project Name: Continental Divide Trail Alliance Access Planning Location: Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Location: Far West: Alaska Wyoming, Montana, South-Central/South-West: Summary: The Chugach National Forest is working with Colorado, New Mexico communities using a collaborative learning Summary: CDTA was formed to engage a broad spectrum of approach to craft a winter access management stakeholders in the development of the Continental plan on the Seward Ranger District of the Kenai Divide National Scenic Trail. Over 1,275 miles, 31 Peninsula. bridges and 46 trailheads have been completed. Contact: Rebecca Talbott, Public Affairs Ofﬁcer, Chugach Website: www.cdtrail.org National Forest, (907) 743-9508, [email protected] Contact: Bruce Ward, Executive Director, Continental Divide Trail Alliance, 303-838-3760, [email protected]

Project Name: Community-Based Monitoring Project Name: Cooperative Habitat Enhancement and Wildlife Location: Far West: Oregon Management Project Summary: The Chewaucan Biophysical Monitoring Project Location: Far West: Oregon (CBMP) was born out of the combined efforts of Summary: North Fork John Day Weed Treatment #5 project environmental organizations, government agencies treated 3,430 acres of noxious weed infestations on and, most of all, concerned community members. both Federal and private lands. Involved funding Website: www.lcri.org/monitoring/index.html from RMEF, BMEI, Title II Grants, NFJD Watershed. Contact: Richard Hart, Project Coordinator, Lake County Contact: Tom Thompson, Range Management Specialist, U.S. Resources Initiative, (541) 601-5226, [email protected] Department of Agriculture Forest Service, (541) 427-5365, [email protected]

Project Name: Conservation on the Pyramid Lake Indian Project Name: Cooperative Mountain Goat Habitat Modeling and Reservation Habitat Use and Sighting Surveys Location: Far West: Nevada Location: Far West: Washington Summary: The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe recently completed Summary: This project will use geospatial models of the North a Comprehensive Resource Management Plan Cascade Range to analyze goat habitat selection, with the assistance from the USDA’s NRCS on their determine data collection methods, and assist tribes 475,000 acre reservation. in mangement of resources. Website: www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov Contact: Scott Aikin, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Contact: Liz Warner, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Natural 503-231-6123, [email protected] Resources Conservation Service, 775-857-8500 x 105, [email protected]

Project Name: Conserving Biodiversity in Pierce County, Project Name: Cooperative Riparian Restoration and Beach Washington Closures Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: To develop a habitat conservation plan for the Summary: Project has resulted in collaborative efforts with Gig Harbor Biodiversity Management Area and adjacent landowners and interests that have establish biological inventories and ongoing resulted in win-win solutions at New River both for monitoring. the environment and stakeholders. Website: www.co.pierce.wa.us/pc/services/home/property/ Contact: Chris Church, ACEC Manager, Bureau of Land pals/other/biodiversity.htm Management Coos Bay District, (541) 751-4301, Contact: Katherine Brooks, Senior Planner, Pierce County [email protected] Planning and Land Services Department, (253) 798-3181, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 227 Project Name: Cooperative Weed Management Areas Project Name: Cusick Wetland Restoration Location: Far West: California, Idaho, Nevada, Midwest/ Location: Far West: Washington Northern High Plains: Wyoming, South-Central/ Summary: The Partnership restored a wetland, created a South-West: Utah wetland educational site, and established a park. Summary: The eighty-ﬁve CWMAs facilitate cooperation Contact: Mark Simpson, Resource Conservationist, USDA- and coordination in leveraging local resources to Natural Resources Conservation Service, provide increased emphasis and management of 509-447-4217, [email protected] invasive and noxious weeds. Contact: Curt Johnson, Invasive Species Program Manager, USDA Forest Service, 801-625-5600, [email protected]

Project Name: Cosumnes River Preserve Project Name: Deschutes Water Bank Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: The objective of this effort is to safeguard and Summary: Members of the Deschutes Water Alliance restore the Cosumnes River and surrounding partnership are undertaking voluntary water habitat, increasing migratory waterfowl conservation measures to establish a water bank populations and providing for agricultural and to secure future water needs for wildlife, ﬁsh and recreational use. people. Website: www.cosumnes.org Contact: Steven C. Johnson, Chair, Deschutes Basin Board of Contact: Rick Cooper, Manager, Cosumnes River Preserve, Control, Central Irrigation District, 541-548-6047, (916) 684-2816, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Cox Creek Cooperative Weed Management Area Project Name: Ditch Creek/Penland Area Road Safety Location: Far West: Oregon Improvements Summary: Partners collaborating to control Portuguese Location: Far West: Oregon Broom, a noxious weed. Weed Management Summary: The Heppner Ranger District, Umatilla National Area includes the coordination of 35 different Forest, improved safety through stabilization of landowners, including private, federal, state and road surface, reduced introduction of sediment into county. the ecosystem, replaced cattleguards to improve Contact: Glen Brady, Project Manager, Douglas Soil and dangerous one-way trafﬁc situations. Water Conservation District, 541-957-5061, Contact: Lorie Seitz, (541) 676-2117, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Crissy Field Restoration Project Name: Dry Creek Quarry Restoration Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: California Summary: Created a world-class waterfront park from a Summary: Since 2004, Sequoia Riverlands Trust has been former 100-acre asphalt and concrete dump, raising restoring natural stream ﬂows, recontouring $34 million in private funds. disturbed areas, seeding native grasses and planting Contact: Greg Moore, Executive Director, Golden Gate oak and sycamore trees at this former gravel mine. National Parks Conservancy, 415-561-3030 x 2228, Website: www.sequoiariverlands.org [email protected] Contact: Hilary Dustin, Land Steward, Sequoia Riverlands Trust, 559.738.0211, [email protected]

Project Name: Creeks & Communities: Building Capacity for Project Name: East Bay Creek Restorations Collaborative Stewardship Location: Far West: California Location: National Summary: The East Bay Watershed Center at Merritt College Summary: Federal-level, interagency strategy designed to has designed and/or implemented several urban foster and support grassroots action across the creek restorations, wildﬁre control and public landscape for stewardship of wetlands and riparian interpretive installations in the San Francisco Bay areas. Area Website: www.or.blm.gov/nrst Website: www.merritt.edu/~envst Contact: Laura Van Riper, PhD, Social Scientist, National Contact: Robin Freeman, Director, Merritt College Watershed Riparian Service Team, 541-416-6702, laura_van_ Center, 510-434-3840, [email protected], [email protected] [email protected]

228 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition Project Name: Endangered Species Act Assurances for Private Location: Far West: Nevada Landowners Summary: The Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition is one of Location: Far West: Oregon the ﬁrst community-based efforts in the Great Basin Summary: Private landowners with approved NRCS-RMS to tackle restoration on a landscape-scale. conservation plans are able to use their lands for Website: www.envlc.org work and conservation with a minimum of red Contact: Betsy McFarland, Executive Director, Eastern Nevada tape. Landscape Coalition, 775-289-7974, Website: ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/OR/Biology/T&E/Tri- [email protected] County%20Consultation/ Contact: Ron Graves, District Manager, Wasco Soil and Water Conservation District, 541-296-6178 x114, [email protected]

Project Name: Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve Project Name: Endangered Species Conservation Partnership Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Hawaii Summary: The community of Coupeville, WA, and the Summary: Marine Corps links training maneuvers to National Park Service manage Ebey’s Landing for conservation by using amphibious assault vehicles historic, agricultural, and open space conservation. to control invasive plant species to help restore the Website: www.nps.gov/ebla/ Hawaiian stilt. Contact: Rob Harbour, Manager, Ebey’s Landing National Website: www.fws.gov/endangered/pubs/marines.html Historical Reserve, 360-678-6084, Contact: Mr. Jeff Mikulina, Director, Sierra Club, Hawaii [email protected] Chapter, 808-538-6616, [email protected]

Project Name: Effects of Climate Variability and Land Use on Project Name: Endangered, Native Colorado River Fish American Drylands Conservation, Restoration and Recovery Location: Far West: California, South-Central/South-West: Location: Far West: California, South-Central/South-West: Utah Colorado, Utah Summary: This project monitors landscape change and its Summary: Restoration success from the active management influence on ecosystems and communities that of declining populations of Colorado River fish depend on ecological services of water, productivity, through innovative approaches to raising native and landscape stability. fish to larger size away from predators. Website: esp.cr.usgs.gov/info/sw/index.html Contact: Gordon Mueller, Research Fishery Biologist, U. S. Contact: Richard L. Reynolds, Research Scientist, U. S. Geological Survey, 303-445-2218, Geological Survey, 303-236-1303, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Elk City Township Defensible Space Project Project Name: Evolution of the Maui Invasive Species Committee Location: Far West: Idaho (MISC) Summary: Treating vegetative growth on federally managed Location: Far West: Hawaii land near homes and facilities. This action will Summary: Maui Invasive Species Committee, an informal reduce the potential and intensity of wildﬁre. private-county-state-federal partnership, works to Website: www.FramingOurCommunity.org prevent serious alien plant and animal invasions Contact: Joyce Dearstyne, Executive Director, Framing Our threatening Haleakala National Park. Community, 208 842-2939, Website: www.hear.org [email protected] Contact: Stephen Anderson, Natural Resource Program Manager, National Park Service, 808-572-4480, [email protected]

Project Name: Elk Collaborative Project Name: Family Forest Habitat Conservation Plan Location: Far West: Idaho Location: Far West: Washington Summary: The collaborative seeks to develop consensus- Summary: The FFHCP is a community effort in collaboration based recommendations for habitat and wildlife with USFWS to develop viable long term forest management in the Clearwater Basin with an management plans for family forest owners. emphasis on increasing the elk population. Website: www.familyforestfoundation.org Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ Contact: Steve Stinson, Executive Director, Family Forest elkcollaborative.html Foundation, 360-345-1023, Contact: Nick Fiore, Wolf Education & Research Center, (208) [email protected] 743-9554, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 229 Project Name: Feather River Coordinated Resource Management Project Name: Fort Hunter Grasslands Restoration Group Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: California Summary: A broad-based partnership is working to restore Summary: The group strives to protect, maintain and enhance the grasslands and oak savannahs of Fort Hunter ecosystems and community stability in the Feather Liggett by controlling the invasive yellow star River Watershed through collaborative landowner thistle. participation. Contact: Joe DiTomaso, Professor, University of California, Website: www.feather-river-crm.org Davis, 530-574-8715, [email protected] Contact: Leslie Mink, Monitoring Coordinator, Feather River Coordinated Resource Management Group, (530) 283-3739, [email protected]

Project Name: Fish and Amphibian Use of Seasonal Aquatic Project Name: Fox Creek Riparian Zone Restoration Habitats in Grass Seed Producing Fields of the Location: Far West: Oregon Willamette Basin Summary: Installation of seven miles of fencing and 4,000 Location: Far West: Oregon cuttings was completed in September, 2003. With Summary: This is a study of ﬁsh and amphibian use of habitats the help of six partners, Fox Creek is now protected in intermittent streams that drain agricultural lands from trespass cattle and in restoration. in western Oregon. Website: foxcreek.7glt.org Website: oregoninvests.css.orst.edu/FMPro Contact: Marshall McComb, Land Steward, Fox Creek Farm, Contact: Guillermo Giannico, Assistant Professor, (541) 675-8876, FoxCreek@(nospam)7GLT.org Oregon State University, 541-737-2479, [email protected]

Project Name: Fish Friendly Farming Environmental Certification Project Name: Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Location: Far West: California Monument Summary: The FFF program integrates economic use of Location: Far West: Oregon farmland with the production of environmental Summary: BLM and Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National benefits. The land manager is the central figure Monument collaborate to create and maintain the in achieving and sustaining environmental Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Information improvements. Center. Website: www.fishfriendlyfarming.org Contact: Howard Hunter, Assistant Monument Manager, Contact: Laurel Marcus, Executive Director, California Land Bureau of Land Management, Medford District, Stewardship Institute, 510 832 3101, 541-618-2256, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act Project Name: Gifford Pinchot Collaborative Working Group Program Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Midwest/ Summary: The group promotes policies and projects that Northern High Plains: Montana create local jobs and benefit watershed health Summary: This voluntary, citizen-based, cost shared program within the Cispus Adaptive Management Area and helps protect fish without impairing water surrounding parts of the Gifford Pinchot National withdrawals from streams for farming, ranching, Forest. hydropower and municipal purposes. Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ Website: pacific.fws.gov/Fisheries/FRIMA/ giffordpinchot.html Contact: Jerry Van Meter, FWS Regional Coordinator (ID, OR, Contact: Emily Platt, Executive Director, Gifford Pinchot Task WA), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, (503) 231-6217, Force, (360) 521-7973, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Five Counties Salmonid Conservation Program Project Name: Golden Gate National Recreation Area: Eight Steps Location: Far West: California Toward Partnership Success Summary: This program is an innovative local collaboration Location: Far West: California aimed at the long-term recovery of salmon and Summary: National Park Service, Golden Gates National Park steelhead in Northern California. Conservancy, and hundreds of citizens are providing Website: www.5counties.org time and service to management of the park’s Contact: Mark Lancaster, 5C Program Director, Trinity cultural and natural resources. County Planning Department, 530-623-1351 x 5, Contact: Brian O’Neill, Superintendent, Golden Gate [email protected] National Recreation Area, National Park Service, 415-561-4720, Brian_O’[email protected]

230 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Grassland Ecological Area Enhancement and Project Name: Habitat use, seasonal movement and stock Restoration Project structure of bearded seals Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Alaska Summary: The Grassland Ecological Area Enhancement Summary: This project responds to concerns of coastal hunters and Restoration Project enhanced and restored and will provide information about habitat use and wetlands and associated habitats in the Grasslands stock identiﬁcation for the bearded seals found in Ecological Area in the heart of the Central Valley. Kotzebue Sound. Contact: Chris Hildebrandt, Regional Biologist, Ducks Website: www.kotzebueira.org Unlimited, 209-826-5274, [email protected] Contact: Alex Whiting, Environmental Specialist, Native Village of Kotzebue, 907-442-5303, [email protected]

Project Name: Greater Yellowstone Coordination Sustainable Project Name: Hanford Reach Fall Chinook Protection Program Operations Subcommittee Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Summary: Cooperative agreement to control river flows Montana, Wyoming for fall Chinook salmon to maximize spawning Summary: Sustainable operations subcommittee promotes and rearing conditions in mid-Columbia River, energy efficiency and waste and emissions while maintaining flexibility of hydroelectric dam reductions in the Greater Yellowstone Area. operators. Website: mpin.nbii.org/gycc Website: www.gcpud.org/stewardship.htm Contact: Anna Jones-Crabtree, Chair of Subcommittee, Contact: Linda Jones, Grant County Public Utility District, Bighorn National Forest, 307-674-2615, 509-754-5037, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Green and Solar Homes Tour Project Name: Hawaii Coral Reef and Native Algae Restoration Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Hawaii Summary: A collaborative statewide effort to host Green and Summary: Volunteers, local communities, NGOs, businesses, Solar Homes Tours and a comprehensive green and government agencies work together to remove building magazine, Green and Solar Building invasive alien algae and begin to restore Hawaii’s Oregon. In 2005, 11 Oregon communities will hold coral reefs. tours. Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ Website: www.3estrategies.org/ProjectsGreenSolarTour.asp hawaii Contact: Cylvia Hayes, Executive Director, 3EStrategies, Contact: Eric Co, Marine Conservation Program Coordinator, 541.617.9013, [email protected] The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, 808-537-4508, [email protected]

Project Name: Guadalupe River Project, San Jose, California Project Name: Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Location: Far West: California Marine Sanctuary Summary: This project provides 100-year ﬂood protection, Location: Far West: Hawaii habitat protection, water quality protection, ﬁsh & Summary: Protection of humpback whales is enhanced wildlife enhancement, and recreation & open space through a State/Federal management partnership. features within the Guadalupe River watershed. Contact: Jeffrey Walters, Ph.D., Sanctuary Co-manager, Website: www.spk.usace.army.mil/projects/civil/guadalupe/ Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale NMS/ Contact: Bradley C. Hubbard, Project Manager, US Army Department of Land & Natural Resources, Corps of Engineers, (916) 557-7054, 808-587-0106, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Stewardship Project Name: Headwaters Corner Interpretive Center Collaborative Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: California Summary: Community partners and conservation agencies Summary: This public/not-for-proﬁt collaborative partnership collaborate to bring environmental education is implementing variety of restoration projects & of regional signiﬁcance to the general public of visitor service programs to mitigate the effects of southern California. one of the nation’s largest oil spills. Website: www.mountainstrust.org Website: www.dunescollaborative.org Contact: Debbie O’Hare, Project Manager, Contact: Elena Eger, Staff Counsel, California State Coastal Mountains Restoration Trust, 818-591-1701, Conservancy, (510) 286-4089, [email protected] [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 231 Project Name: Hells Canyon and Owyhee’s Weed Prevention Project Name: Hokulea, Navigating Change in the Hawaiian Project Islands Location: Far West: Idaho Location: Far West: Hawaii Summary: This project focuses on prevention of invasive Summary: ”Navigating Change” is a project focused on raising species expansion in Hells Canyon grasslands and awareness to ultimately motivate people to change Owyhee shrub steppe ecological systems in ID, OR, their attitudes and behaviors to better care for all and WA. BLM, USFS, ISDA, and IDFG. our islands and ocean resources. Website: nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ Website: www.navigatingchange.org and www. idaho/science/art11928.html hawaiianatolls.org Contact: Arthur Ray Talsma, Hells Canyon and Owyhees Contact: Ann Bell, Outdoor Recreation Planner, U.S. Fish and Conservation Manager, The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Service, (808) 792-9530, [email protected] 208-343-8826 ext 15, [email protected]

Project Name: Hells Canyon Initiative Project Name: Horse Canyon Location: Far West: Idaho Location: Far West: California Summary: Following a dramatic, disease-caused, die-off, Summary: 1,200 acres of aboriginal land of the Mountain NGO, tribal, state, and federal partners worked Cahuilla people; acquired by Anza-Borrego cooperatively to restore wild sheep to Hells Canyon. Foundation and Native Am Land Conservancy and Contact: Raymond Lee, President, Foundation for North transferred to California State Parks. American Wild Sheep, (307) 527-6261, Website: www.theabf.org [email protected] Contact: Linda Carson, Executive Director, Anza-Borrego Foundation, 760-767-0446, [email protected]

Project Name: Helping Indian Tribes Manage Natural Resources Project Name: Idaho Department of Fish and Game Habitat Location: Far West: Nevada Restoration Volunteer Program Summary: The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe recently completed Location: Far West: Idaho a Comprehensive Resource Management Plan Summary: This program provides a link between conservation- with the assistance of the USDA Natural Resources minded Idaho citizens of all ages and backgrounds Conservation Service on their 475,000 acre and ecologically meaningful wetland and riparian Reservation. volunteer opportunities. Contact: Deb Prevost, Resource Conservationist, USDA NRCS, Website: ﬁshandgame.idaho.gov/cms/about/volunteer/ (775) 857-8500 x 144, [email protected] Contact: Mary Dudley, Volunteer Coordinator, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, 208-327-7099, [email protected]

Project Name: Henry’s Fork Watershed Council Project Name: Indian Creek Restoration/City Center Revitalization Location: Far West: Idaho Location: Far West: Idaho Summary: The council works to improve the management of Summary: Caldwell’s downtown revitalization plan uses Henry’s Fork Watershed by fostering a consensus- restoration of Indian Creek as the catalyst for a based process for planning and implementation sustainable community with ecological integrity of watershed-wide management and restoration and economic vitality. projects. Website: www.caldwellonline.org/Indian_Creek.htm Website: www.henrysfork.com Contact: Dennis Cannon, Caldwell Redevelopment Contact: Steve Trafton, Executive Director, Henry’s Fork Coordinator, City of Caldwell, 208-455-4736, Foundation, (208) 652-3567, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Pilot Project Project Name: Integrating Desert Conservation, Visitor Services, Location: Far West: California and Public Safety Summary: The Quincy Library Group created a model for Location: Far West: California forest governance by making the community Summary: Key government agencies created the California and community goals a central part of forest Desert Managers Group to coordinate conservation, management. recreation, research and other activities at a Website: www.qlg.org/ landscape scale. Contact: Bill Coates, Chair, Quincy Library Group, Website: www.dmg.gov 530-283-4260, [email protected] Contact: Glen Black, Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Game, 909-987-7449, [email protected]

232 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Irvine Ranch Land Reserve Project Name: Kagman Watershed Project Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Pacific Islands Summary: The Irvine Company and partners created a 50,000 Summary: Joint effort by CNMI Dept. of Land & Natural acre urban reserve for education, recreation, and Resources, Saipan & No. Islands SWCD and USDA conservation, a model for sustainable development. NRCS to address flooding of agricultural land Website: www.irvineranch.com/irvineranch/irvineranch.asp during rainy season & irrigation shortage during Contact: Mike O’Connell, Executive Director, Irvine dry season. Ranch Land Reserve Trust, 949-720-5568, Contact: Jeffrey Wheaton, State Conservation Engineer, [email protected] USDA NRCS, Pacific Basin Area Office, (671) 472-7105, [email protected]

Project Name: It Takes All Lands/All Hands to Reduce Wildland Project Name: Keizer Rapids Regional Community Park Fire Risk on Alaska’s Kenai Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Alaska Summary: The Keizer Rapids Park demonstrates how the Summary: Partnership aims to establish twenty Community Willamette American Heritage Rivers Initiative Wildfire Protection Plans and treat over works with local partners to provide leverage for 100,000 acres to reduce the significant threat of projects and build community capacity. catastrophic fires. Website: www.keizer.org/publicworks/Rapids/FactSheet.pdf Contact: Jim Peterson, Area Forester, Alaska Division of Contact: Mark A. Brown, Willamette River Navigator, BLM, Forestry, 907-260-4210, (541) 520-3886, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Jacksonville Woodlands Project Name: Kendall Jackson Wine Estates, Ltd. (KJWE) Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: California Summary: Partners collaborated to establish a remarkable Summary: A cooperative agreement that centers on the system of urban hiking and equestrian establishment and long-term management of interpretative trails. The Federally listed lily vineyard lands in a manner that will minimize any Frittilaria Gentneri is located throughout the JWA adverse affects on the California Tiger Salamander. lands. Contact: Steve Henry, Field Supervisor Ventura Ofﬁce, U.S. Contact: Genivieve Rasmussen, Natural Resource Staff Fish and Wildlife Service, 805-644-1766, Administrator, Bureau of Land Management [email protected] Medford District, 541-618-2348, [email protected]

Project Name: Jordan Valley Cooperative Weed Management Area Project Name: Klamath Basin Integrated Science Workshops and Location: Far West: Idaho, Oregon Planning Summary: Twelve public and private partners are managing Location: Far West: Oregon, California weeds across Oregon and Idaho by sharing Summary: Workshops engage water managers, stakeholders, equipment, funds, labor, and local information. and researchers to identify and rank science needs Contact: Dennis Stanford, Private Landowner and Chairman, for water quality and ﬁsh habitat in the Klamath Jordan Valley Cooperative Weed Management Basin. Area, 541-583-2278, [email protected] Contact: Lyman Thorsteinson, Center Director, U.S. Geological Survey, 206-526-6282, [email protected]

Project Name: Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan Project Name: Lakeface Lamb and Clearwater Stewardship Location: Far West: Oregon Projects Summary: The Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan (JCIFP) Location: Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: addresses wildﬁre risk and opportunities for Montana public education, fuels reduction and emergency Summary: Stewardship contracts engage local communities in management in southwest Oregon. collaborative forest management and help National Website: www.co.josephine.or.us Forests meet their forest restoration goals. Contact: Mark Sorensen, Director General Services Website: www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/projects/ Department, Josephine County, 541-474-5426 stewardship/results/index.shtml Contact: Liz Johnson-Gebhardt, Community Spokesperson, Priest River Development Corporation, 208-448-0210, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 233 Project Name: Lakeview Stewardship Group Project Name: Little Vulcan Mountain Bighorn Restoration Project Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Washington Summary: The group seeks to develop new restoration- Summary: A collaborative effort to save the Wild Bighorn oriented management goals for the Lakeview sheep herd. As a result of this project, the numbers Stewardship Unit in Fremont Winema National of sheep have been increasing signiﬁcantly. Forest in Lake County Oregon. Contact: Kerrin Doloughan, Range Management Specialist, Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/lakeview. BLM Spokane District, (509) 536-1253, html [email protected] Contact: Jim Walls, Executive Director, Lake County Resources Initiative, (541) 947-5461, [email protected]

Project Name: Landscape level conservation in Southern California Project Name: Local Action Strategies (LAS) Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Pacific Islands, Hawaii, Southeastern: Summary: Habitat fragmentation has created a hot spot of Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands species endangerment. Multiple species HCPs with Summary: Local Action Strategies are locally driven plans for multiple partners are creating connectivity for action among federal, state, territory, and non- species conservation using innovative approaches. governmental partners, which implement actions to Website: www.werc.usgs.gov/hcp/ reduce threats to coral reefs. Contact: Dr. Robert N. Fisher, Principal Investigator, US Website: www.coralreef.gov/las/ Geological Survey, 858-637-6882, rfi[email protected] Contact: Bill Millhouser, Regional Manager, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource, NOAA, 301-713-3155 ext. 189, [email protected]

Project Name: Lee Creek Fish Passage Culvert Replacements Project Name: Lower Cerrito Creek Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: California Summary: Four miles of Coho salmon and Steelhead habitat Summary: Friends of Five Creeks partners are restoring native has been reopened due to collaborative efforts to vegetation and creating a creekside trail with restore ﬁsh passage in Lee Creek and the Umpqua seating and signage along 1/2 mile of Cerrito Ck. Basin. Website: www.ﬁvecreeks.org Contact: Jake Winn, Restoration Coordinator, Bureau of Contact: Susan Schwartz, president, Friends of Five Creeks, Land Management, Roseburg District, 541-464-3275, 510 848 9358, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Lemhi County Planning and Restoration Project Project Name: Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Location: Far West: Idaho Program Summary: The Lemhi County Project is a pioneer effort Location: Far West: California, Nevada, South-Central/South- to integrate community into the planning and West: Arizona management of BLM lands and resources. Summary: This innovative project is the largest and longest- Contact: Dr. Robert Cope, Lemhi County Commissioners, term major river system habitat restoration plan, (208) 756-2124, [email protected] designed to create habitat and protect listed and sensitive species. Website: www.usbr.gov/lc/lcrmscp Contact: Lorri Gray, Program Director, Bureau of Reclamation, 702-293-8555, [email protected]

Project Name: Little Canyon Mountain Fuel Reduction Project Project Name: Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: Communities partner with BLM to reduce fuels on Summary: The LCREP, through development of a management public lands adjacent to private lands. plan for the lower 146 miles of the Columbia River, Website: www5.or.blm.gov/Prineville/LCM/home.htm works to restore habitat, provide education and Contact: Tina Welch, Field Manager, Central Oregon information and eliminate pollution. Resource Area, Bureau of Land Management, Website: www.lcrep.org/ Prineville District, 541-416-6731, Contact: Debrah Marriott, Executive Director, Lower [email protected] Columbia River Estuary Partnership, 503-226-1565, [email protected]

234 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan Project Name: Mattole Restoration Council Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: California Summary: A collaborative approach that integrates state Summary: The Council seeks to restore the natural systems salmon recovery, ESA recovery, subbasin planning, in the Mattole River watershed and maintain and state watershed planning into a single process. these systems at sustainable levels of health and Website: www.lcfrb.gen.wa.us/default1.htm productivity. Contact: Jeff Breckel, Executive Director, Lower Columbia Contact: Chris Larson, Executive Director, Mattole River Fish Recovery Board, 360-425-1553, Restoration Council, (707)-629-3514, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture Project Name: Mercury contamination in San Francisco Bay Location: Far West: Idaho, Southeastern: Mississippi Location: Far West: California Summary: Bird conservation through multi-scale habitat Summary: Assessment of mercury contamination in mud ﬂat objectives, tracking and monitoring, research, and sediments associated with salt pond restoration. restoration, enhancement or protection of over 1 Website: www.werc.usgs.gov/index.html million acres of habitat. Contact: Dr. A. Keith Miles, Principal Investigator, US Contact: Charles Baxter, Joint Venture Coordinator, US Fish Geological Survey, 530-752-5365, and Wildlife Service, 601-629-6600, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Lower Truckee River Restoration Project Name: Metropolitan Greenspaces Program Location: Far West: Nevada Location: Far West: Oregon, Washington Summary: Project goals include enhanced wildlife habitat, Summary: This program supports environmental education, improved water quality, increased recreational habitat restoration and protection, environmental opportunities and open-space protection. planning, and ecological studies throughout an Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ urban greenspaces system. nevada/preserves/art11312.html Website: www.fws.gov/paciﬁc/oregonfwo/greenspaces/gs- Contact: Michael Cameron, Truckee River Project Director, UrbanConservation.htm The Nature Conservancy of Nevada, (775) 322-4990, Contact: Jim Desmond, Senior Director, Metro Regional Parks Ext. 13, [email protected] and Greenspaces, (503) 797-1850, [email protected]

Project Name: Maidu Stewardship Project Project Name: Montana Water Trust Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Summary: This project seeks to demonstrate traditional Montana Mountain Maidu forest management techniques Summary: MWT develops water transfer agreements with that restore whole ecosystems and to protect farmers, ranchers, and other landowners that culturally significant sites. increase flows and benefit native fish in Montana’s Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/ 4,000 miles of dewatered streams. maidustewardship.html Website: www.montanawatertrust.org Contact: Lorena Gorbet, Coordinator, Maidu Cultural Contact: Brianna Randall, Development Assoc; 406-829-3736, and Development Group, (530) 284-1601, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Marine Partnership with Paradise Cove Marine Project Name: Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail Elementary School Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: California Summary: National Park Service helped partners identify Summary: Students at Paradise Cove Marine Elementary are important interpretive themes and stories along the using a Mineral Management Service long-term trail and determine how to integrate them with the monitoring site to study intertidal marine life. trail’s alignment and design. Website: www.marine.gov Website: www.nps.gov/rtca Contact: Tom Readinger, USDI Minerals Management Service, Contact: Barbara Rice, RTCA Program Leader, National Park 202-208-3530, [email protected] Service, (510) 817-1449, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 235 Project Name: Moose Creek Fish Passage Restoration Project Project Name: National Park Service and California State Parks Location: Far West: Alaska Location: Far West: California Summary: A man-made waterfall blocked salmon from quality Summary: National Park Service and California State Parks habitat. The Chickaloon Tribe lead a restoration collaborate on management of adjacent parks for project to reconstruct a natural river channel cost savings and enhanced visitor services. bypassing the waterfall. Contact: Marilyn Murphy, Redwood National and State Contact: Jessica Dryden, Moose Creek Project Coordinator, Parks, 707-464-6101 x 5100, Chickaloon Village Environmental Protection [email protected] Program, 907-745-0737

Project Name: Morro Bay, Protecting Priority Habitats Project Name: Nez Perce Reforestation Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Idaho Summary: Environmentalists and trawl ﬁshermen combined Summary: This project planted native trees as part of science and economics to come up with no-trawl AMERICAN FORESTS’ Global ReLeaf program to zones that protect priority habitats, while keeping reforest burned areas in Nez Perce Woods Property. enough areas open to keep ﬁshermen in business. Website: www.americanforest.org Contact: Rod Fujita, Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense, Contact: Deborah Gangloff, Executive Director, American (510) 658-8008, [email protected] Forests, (202) 737-1944, [email protected]

Project Name: Mt. Emily Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Reduction Project Name: Nisqually River Collaborative Management Project Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: All-inclusive locally-based management of river Summary: Complementary projects on private and public lands basin created to resolve ecosystem health disputes – including stewardship contracting on public lands and encourage economic vitality of the region. – reduce ﬁre risks on home sites and forest land. Website: www.nisquallyriver.org Contact: Kurt Wiedenmann, District Ranger, La Grande, Contact: David Troutt, Chair, Nisqually River Council, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, 541-962-8582, Nisqually River Council, 360-438-8687, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Multi-State Sage-grouse Conservation Initiative Project Name: NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program Location: Far West: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Restore America’s Estuaries Washington, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Location: Far West: WA, CA, Northeast/Mid-Atlantic: NJ, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, NY, RI, VA, CT, Washington, DC, MA, MD, ME, NH, South-Central/South-West: Colorado, Utah South-Central/South-West: LA, TX, Southeast: FL, NC Summary: A broadly-based cooperative effort utilizing Summary: Through ﬁnancial and technical assistance, this working groups at the local level to restore habitats partnership focuses on restoring the nation’s most and rebuild populations of sage-grouse and other productive marine ecosystems—its estuaries. sagebrush-dependent wildlife across the West. Website: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_ Contact: Kathleen Clarke, Director USDI, Bureau of Land programs/crp/partners/rae.html Management, 202-208-3801, Contact: Steve Emmett-Mattox, V.P., Restore America’s [email protected] Estuaries, 703-524-0248, [email protected]

Project Name: Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) Project Name: Northern Nevada Stewardship Group Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Nevada Summary: Program provides framework for local jurisdictions Summary: Sagebrush ecosystem restoration and sustainable to voluntarily develop a “sub-area” Habitat mining. Conservation Plan and receive “take authorization”, Contact: Helen Hankins, BLM Field Manager, Bureau of Land while conserving approx. 172,000 acres of habitat. Management, 775-753-0200, Contact: Thomas Oberbauer, Chief of the Multiple Species [email protected] Planning Division, Department of Planning and Land Use, County of San Diego, 858-694-3701, [email protected]

236 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Northwest Salmon Enhancement Project Name: Ocean Shores Waterways Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Washington Summary: The Northwest Salmon Enhancement Program is a Summary: This project addresses waterways-related ecological multi-agency effort to improve and protect habitat and economic issues to ensure and promote and prey for listed ﬁsh species in Puget Sound. sustainable practices in this growing coastal Contact: Randi Thurston, Fisheries Biologist, Washington community. Department of Fish and Wildlife, 360-895-6123, Website: forthcoming [email protected] Contact: Lynn Wilson, Partnership Director, Ocean Shores Waterways, 360-961-3363, [email protected]

Project Name: Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Project Name: Olaa-Kilauea - Building Bridges by Building Fences Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Hawaii Summary: A citizen-based approach to restoring and Summary: The partnership uses inmate labor to build fences protecting marine species and habitats in the and conduct other conservation activities. Northwest Straits region of Washington State. Website: hawp.org/Partnerships.php Website: www.nwstraits.org Contact: Tanya Rubenstein, Partnership Coordinator, Olaa- Contact: Tom Cowan, Director, Northwest Straits Kilauea Partnership, (808) 985-6197, Commission, (360) 428-1085, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: NRCS, State, Private, Tribal Partnership Project Name: Old Woman Mountain Preserve Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: California Summary: Public-Private-NGO: to Restore Salmon Habitat in Summary: The program is developing long-term adaptive the Blue Mountains of the Paciﬁc Northwest management to provide protective management Contact: Dr. Barry Southerland, Soil Conservationist, for at-risk species that utilize the Preserve for (509) 323-2970, [email protected] resident, migratory, or linkage (corridor) habitat. Website: paciﬁc.fws.gov/ea/tribal Contact: Scott L. Aikin, Native American Affairs Liaison, Region 1 USFWS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 503-231-6123, [email protected]

Project Name: O’ahu Conservation Partnership Project Name: Olympia Oyster Restoration Project Location: Far West: Hawaii Location: Far West: Washington Summary: The O’ahu Conservation Partnership is a consortium Summary: A community-based, diverse partnership restores of agencies and conservation groups seeking to Washington’s only native oyster, an essential acquire and protect open space for listed species. component of the marine ecosystem. Contact: Mr. Joshua Stanbro, Senior Project Associate, The Website: www.restorationfund.org Trust for Public Land, Hawaii Field Ofﬁce, Contact: Betsey Peabody, Executive Director, Puget 808-524-8564, [email protected] Sound Restoration Fund, 206-780-6947, [email protected]

Project Name: Oasis Valley Project Project Name: Oregon White Oak Restoration Location: Far West: Nevada Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: The town of Beatty, Nevada partnered with The Summary: Students and neighbors plant seven Oregon white Nature Conservancy to craft a conservation strategy oaks as pilot restoration project aimed at keeping that prevented the endangered species listing for oak habitat in the neighborhood. an endemic toad. Contact: Bob Van Dyk, Project Coordinator, Paciﬁc University, Website: www.amargosatoad.com (503) 352-2709, vandykr@paciﬁcu.edu Contact: Jim Moore, Oasis Valley Project Manager, The Nature Conservancy, 702-737-8744, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 237 Project Name: Owyhee Initiative Project Name: Perenosa Bay, Afognak Island Location: Far West: Idaho Location: Far West: Alaska Summary: The Initiative seeks to create a consensus plan Summary: Coastal rainforest and salmon rivers are being for Congressional legislation that will protect the conserved for Alaska Department of Natural natural resources and landscape in the Owyhee Resources in an area identiﬁed as the top habitat region while preserving livestock grazing. for Exxon Valdez oil spill injured ﬁsh and wildlife. Website: www.owyheeinitiative.org Website: www.alcnet.org Contact: Fred Grant, Owyhee Initiative Chairman, Owyhee Contact: Tim Richardson, Project Coordinator, American Land Initiative, (208) 855-0707, Conservancy, 301-770-6496, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Pacific Crest Trail Association Project Name: Point Loma Ecological Reserve Location: Far West: California, Oregon, Washington Location: Far West: California Summary: Primary partner with Federal agencies for Summary: Landowners on Point Loma Peninsula joined with supporting the Pacific Crest Trail, undertaking land the U.S. Navy to plan and establish a 650-acre acquisitions, and coordinating over 181,000 hours Ecological Reserve Area for protection of native of volunteer labor. coastal habitat. Contact: Tim Stone, Pacific Crest Trail Manager, USDA Forest Contact: Laura Ball, City of San Diego, Metropolitan Service, 707-562-8881, [email protected] Wastewater Department, 858-292-6417, [email protected]

Project Name: Pacific Northwest Conservation Reserve Project Name: Portfields Enhancement Program Location: Far West: Washington, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Location: Far West: Washington, Oregon Massachusetts, Southeastern: Florida Summary: The Pacific Northwest CREP works with farmers Summary: Multi-agency partnership to assist ports to revitalize to voluntarily establish and maintain long-term waterfront areas, improve marine transportation, riparian buffers on agricultural lands to help and protect and restore critical habitat. protect critical salmon and trout habitat. Website: www.brownfields.noaa.gov Website: oregon.gov/ODA/NRD/water_crep.shtml Contact: David Holst, Program Analyst, National Oceanic Contact: Stephanie Page, Compliance & Planning Leader, and Atmospheric Administration, 301-713-2989, Oregon Department of Agriculture Natural [email protected] Resources Division, 503-986-6486, [email protected]

Project Name: Palos Verde Blue Butterﬂy Recovery Program Project Name: Poso Creek Flood Plain Wetland Habitat Project Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: California Summary: The Defense Support Center is working with Summary: On the Poso Creek Flood Plain Wetland Habitat partners, on its lands, to enhance the only known Project, partners are working together to restore population of Palos Verdes blue butterﬂies, and to and enhance wetlands in the Tulare Basin, site of restore it elsewhere. California’s largest historic freshwater wetland. Contact: Mr. Dan Ryan, Stewardship Director, Palos Verdes Contact: Chadd Santerre, Senior Waterfowl Habitat Biologist, Peninsula Land Conservancy, 310-541-7613 x 203, California Waterfowl Association, 530-868-5072, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Participatory Biological Monitoring Guidelines Project Name: Post Mountain Collaborative Stewardship Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: California Summary: The “Participatory Biological Monitoring Summary: A collaborative project to develop and implement Guidelines” project helps managers and scientists an ecologically, socially, and economically form local partnerships to meet biological responsible community wildﬁre protection plan for monitoring needs while maintaining scientiﬁc the rural community of Post Mountain standards. Website: www.thewatershedcenter.org Website: www.ifcae.org/projects/ncssf3/ Contact: Nick Guolette, Watershed Research and Training Contact: Eric T. Jones, PH.D., Participatory Research Center, 530-628-4206, [email protected] Coordinator, Institute for Culture and Ecology, 503-331-6681, [email protected]

238 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Private Landowners and Conservation Partners Join Project Name: Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership to Protect Abandoned Farmland Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Nevada Summary: The Puget Nearshore Partnership is a collaborative Summary: Conservation partners are working to ﬁnd research and restoration project to restore the ways, both vegetative and non-vegetative, to health of the waters and ﬁsheries of Puget Sound. permanently protect farmland soils from wind Website: www.pugetsoundnearshore.org/ erosion after irrigation water is removed. Contact: Tim Smith, Special Assistant to the Director, Website: www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, Contact: Liz Warner, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Natural 360-902-2223, [email protected] Resources Conservation Service, (775) 857-8500 x 105, [email protected]

Project Name: Protecting the San Mateo Watershed Project Name: Puget Sound Shared Strategy Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Washington Summary: The Donna O’Neill Land Conservancy is a 1171- Summary: Using local conservation efforts already underway, acre wildlife reserve providing education and the Shared Strategy is a ground-up approach to the stewardship with the purpose of creating development of a science-based, locally supported awareness of the rich diversity of the San Mateo salmon recovery plan for Puget Sound. Watershed. Website: www.sharedsalmonstrategy.org/ Website: www.theconservancy.org Contact: Jim Kramer, Executive Director, Puget Sound Shared Contact: Laura Cohen, Executive Director, The Donna O’Neill Strategy, 206-447-3336, Land Conservancy, 949-489-9778, rmvlc@sbcglobal. [email protected] net

Project Name: Puget Sound & Coastal WA Hatchery Reform Project Name: Ragg Station Trail Restoration Project Project Location: Far West: Idaho Location: Far West: Washington Summary: An integrated crew made up of the Montana Summary: A science-based reform of the world’s largest Conservation Corps, Nez Perce National Forest, salmon hatchery system to: 1) help to conserve Framing Our Community, and Nez Perce Tribal naturally spawning salmon and steelhead employees. populations; and 2) support sustainable ﬁsheries. Website: www.FramingOurCommunity.org Website: www.hatcheryreform.org Contact: Joyce Dearstyne, Executive Director, Framing Our Contact: Michael Kern, Project Director, Long Live the Kings, Community, 208 842-2939, 206-382-9555 x 25, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters Restoration Project Name: Recoverability and Vulnerability of Desert Program Ecosystems (RVDE) Project: Mojave Desert Location: Far West: Washington Ecosystems Summary: Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters Restoration Location: Far West: California, Nevada, South-Central/South- Program provides assistance to agencies to restore West: Arizona, Utah the tributaries, waters, and shorelines of Puget Summary: Examines disturbance and recovery of regional Sound. desert ecosystems to develop tools to manage Website: www.nws.usace.army.mil/PublicMenu/Menu.cfm?sit desert ecosystems pressured by population growth ename=RPPS&pagename=home_page and competing needs. Contact: Brad Ack, Director, Washington State Puget Sound Website: geography.wr.usgs.gov/mojave/rvde/ Action Team, 360-725-5437, [email protected] Contact: Len Gaydos, Center Director, U.S. Geological Survey, 650-329-4330, [email protected]

Project Name: Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Project Name: Recovery of the White Sea Bass along the Management Collaboration California Coast Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: California Summary: International partnership developing solutions, Summary: The purpose of the OREHP is to investigate sharing science and implementing protective the potential for proactively counteracting the actions for one of the most ecologically diverse depletion of California’s coastal marine ﬁsheries ecosystems in North America. through stock enhancement. Website: www.psat.wa.gov Website: www.lcjbsa.org/whiteseabass/sub/sb4.html Contact: John Dohrmann, Washington/Co-Chair, Puget Sound Contact: Bill Shedd, President, AFTCO, 800-452-3726, Georgia Basin Internationl Task Force, [email protected] 360-725-5440, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 239 Project Name: Restoration and Management of Crissy Field Project Name: Ridge to Reef Conservation in the Paciﬁc Islands, Location: Far West: California Hawaii Summary: Partners raised $34 million in funding from multiple Location: Far West: Hawaii sources to restore Crissy Field to a complex of Summary: Restoration of the Hanalei River Basin, with more marshes, grasslands, and dunes. than 30 endangered species, that is being impacted Contact: Brian O’Neill, Superintendent, Golden Gates by pollution and sedimentation transported into National Recreation Area, 415-561-4720, offshore marine ecosystems. Contact: Bill Steiner, Center Director, U. S. Geological Survey, 808-956-5691, [email protected]

Project Name: Restoration of Migratory Fish Habitat Through Dam Project Name: Rocky Reach, Rock Island and Wells Projects Habitat Removal and Fish Passage Conservation Plans Location: Far West: CA, ID, OR, WA, NE/MA: CT, Washington, Location: Far West: Washington DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT Summary: Cooperative partnerships are developing the first Summary: American Rivers and NOAA CRP provide financial hydropower Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) to and technical assistance to local communities for minimize the impact of hydro dams on Endangered dam removal and fish passage projects. Species Act-listed anadromous salmon and Website: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_ steelhead. programs/crp/partners/americanrivers.html Website: www.chelanpud.org/rr_relicense/existing/hcp/index. Contact: Elizabeth Maclin, Director, American Riv- htm ers—Rivers Unplugged Campaign, 202-347-7550, Contact: Tracy Yount, Project Manager, Chelan County Public [email protected] Utility District, 503-663-8121, [email protected]

Project Name: Restoring a Tidewater Glacial Fjord Habitat at Project Name: Rogue River Basin – Collaborative Basin-Scale Kenai Fjords National Park Modeling for High Priority Restoration Needs Location: Far West: Alaska Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: To address the decline in seal and other species Summary: Multi-stakeholder team developed an inclusive numbers, commercial tour operators agreed to self- collaborative process to identify and prioritize regulate their activities in and around the fjords. the speciﬁc type of restoration work needed Contact: Tom Ferranti, Alaska Region, National Park Service, throughout the river basin. 907-644-3504, Contact: Debra Whitall, Collaboration/Policy Analyst, USDA Forest Service, 202-205-0967, [email protected]

Project Name: Restoring Farmland in Nevada Project Name: Salmon Creek Watershed Reforestation Project Location: Far West: Nevada Location: Far West: California Summary: Conservation partners are working to ﬁnd Summary: Bodega Land Trust and Forests Unlimited planted ways, both vegetative and non-vegetative, to 600 redwood seedling on a BLT easement that was permanently protect farmland soils from wind clearcut around 1900. erosion after irrigation water is removed. Website: bodeganet.com/landtrust Website: www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov Contact: Sandy Sharp, Treasurer, Bodega Land Rtust, 707- Contact: Rod Dahl, Resource Conservationist, USDA NRCS, 876-3093, [email protected] (775) 857-8500 x 146, [email protected]

Project Name: Restoring the Deschutes River Project Name: Salmon Valley Stewardship Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Idaho Summary: The Deschutes River Conservancy works with Summary: Salmon Valley Stewardship exists to assist the farmers, communities, agencies, and various people of Lemhi County in managing change, organizations to voluntarily restore the Deschutes promoting sustainable use of natural resources, and River. enhancing economic opportunity. Website: www.deschutesrc.org Website: www.salmonvalley.org Contact: Tod Heisler, Executive Director, Deschutes River Contact: Adrienne Blauser, Coordinator, Salmon Conservancy, 541- 382-4077, [email protected] Valley Stewardship, 208-756-1686, [email protected]

240 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Salt Pond Restoration in San Francisco Bay Project Name: Santa Ana River Watershed Program Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: California Summary: Restoration of 25,000 wetland acres at salt ponds Summary: The Santa Ana Watershed Association develops and around San Francisco Bay, with additional beneﬁts implements programs that enhance and sustain from ﬂood management, public access, and the natural resources of the river for wildlife and recreation. people. Website: www.southbayrestoration.org/ and http://www. Website: SAWARCD.com napa-sonoma-marsh.org/ Contact: Richard Zembal, Natural Resources Director, Contact: Nadine Hitchcock, San Francisco Bay Program Orange County Water District, 714-378-3203, Manager, State Coastal Conservancy, 510-286-4176, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Salton Sea Region Air Quality and Human Health Project Name: Saving Willamette Valley Species with CPR Impacted Due to Lowering Water Level Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: California Summary: The Cross Program Recovery Initiative (CPR) Summary: Partnership investigation that identifies best Initiative focuses on 11 listed and unlisted species approach for habitat restoration and reduction of where significant recovery is achievable over the dust levels from exposed bottom sediments with next five years. lowered lake level. Contact: Vicki Finn, Fisheries Restoration and Recovery Team Contact: Pat Chavez, Research Scientist, U. S. Geological Leader, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Survey, 928-556-7221, [email protected] (503) 872-2763, vicki_fi[email protected]

Project Name: San Bernardino National Forest Association Project Name: Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Sawtooth Location: Far West: California Society Summary: Promotes social investment, particularly education, Location: Far West: Idaho in the forest as a way to support both local Summary: Preserving and protecting remaining open space, community development and a healthy forest. and enhancing recreation facilities and services, Contact: Fran Colwell, Forest Recreation Ofﬁcer, USDA Forest while considering the needs and interests of the Service, 909-382-2715, [email protected] local community. Contact: Robert Hayes, Executive Director, Sawtooth Society, 208-387-0852, [email protected]

Project Name: San Francisco Bay Joint Venture Project Name: Science Used to Strengthen Protection of Hawaiian Location: Far West: California Reef Fishes Summary: The SFBJV is a Bay Area partnership working to Location: Far West: Hawaii protect restore, increase and enhance the wetlands Summary: The Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative Research Program and watersheds of the San Francisco Bay Estuary. conducts research and monitoring to provide Website: www.sfbayjv.org managers needed information to preserve and Contact: Beth Huning, Coordinator, San Francisco Bay Joint protect the state’s coral reef ecosystems. Venture, 415-883-3854, [email protected] Website: www.hawaii.edu/ssri/hcri/ Contact: Michael Hammett, Director, HCRI-RP, 808-956-7479, [email protected]

Project Name: Sandy River Riparian Habitat Protection Project Project Name: Seabird Protection Program Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Hawaii Summary: Our multi-partner program combined education, Summary: The Marine Corps Base Hawaii’s Ulupa’u weapons research and noxious weed control to raise range is the site for a collaborative effort to awareness and protect critical habitats on the protect red-footed boobies through state-of-the-art Sandy River. conservation practices. Website: tncweeds.ucdavis.edu Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Kumabe, President, Hawaii Audubon Contact: Jonathan Soll, Willamette Basin Conservation Society, 808-528-1432, [email protected] Director, The Nature Conservancy, 503-802-8100, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 241 Project Name: SEAtrails Project Name: Slickspot Peppergrass Candidate Conservation Location: Far West: Alaska Agreement Summary: The Southeast Alaska Trails System (SEAtrails) links Location: Far West: Idaho communities and outstanding recreation spots via the Summary: The Agreement, and the willingness of non- Alaska Ferry to promote the local economy through affected private and state interests to enter sustainable tourism. into the agreement, resulted in the withdrawl Website: www.seatrails.org/index.htm of the proposal to list Slickspot Peppergrass as Contact: Lisa Holzapfel, Rivers & Trails Program Leader, endangered. National Park Service, (907) 644-3586, Website: osc.idaho.gov/strategic_plan.html [email protected] Contact: Susan Giannettino, Deputy State Director, BLM Idaho State Ofﬁce, Bureau of Land Management, 208-373-3800,

Project Name: Seven Basins Fire Planning Project Project Name: Soap Lake Science and Community Collaborative Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Washington Summary: The Seven Basins group works to provide community Summary: Science and education are bridging environmental awareness of wildfire issues, fire mitigation, goals and community economic development and reduction of hazardous fuels within local interests for the benefit of a unique natural communities. resource. Contact: Leanne Mruzik, Fuels Management Specialist, Bureau Website: www.thelake.org of Land Management, Medford District, Contact: Jerry Vice, Chair, Soap Lake Conservancy, 541-618-2419, [email protected] 206-229-2066, [email protected]

Project Name: Silver Salmon Creek Fish Passage Restoration Project Project Name: Sonoma Baylands Wetland Demonstration Project Location: Far West: Alaska Location: Far West: California Summary: This project reopened eight miles of spawning and Summary: Restoration of a 320-acre tidal salt marsh helped to rearing habitat for Chinook and coho salmon, as pull a vital dredging project out of a quagmire of well as Dolly Varden char, rainbow trout and other environmental issues. aquatic species. Contact: Scott Miner, Ecosystem Restoration Specialist, U.S. Contact: Mary Price, FWS Biologist, Anchorage Field Ofﬁce, Army Corps Of Engineers, 916-557-6695, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 907-271-2788, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Siuslaw Basin Partnership Project Name: Soulen Ranch Southern Idaho Ground Squirrel Location: Far West: Oregon Candidate Conservation Agreement Summary: Whole-basin restoration initiative that improves the Location: Far West: Idaho health and vitality of water resources, and includes a Summary: Soulen Ranch has been instrumental in developing monitoring and evaluation component. interest among other landowners to enroll under Website: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/siuslawbasin. the southern Idaho ground squirrel CCAA, which html will cover over 1,000,000 acres of squirrel habitat. Contact: Brent Davies, Director of Community and Public Contact: Carmen Thomas, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Forestry, Ecotrust, 503-467-0761, [email protected] Fish and Wildlife Service, 208-378-5243, [email protected]

Project Name: Skagit Watershed Council: A Community Partnership Project Name: Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Project for Salmon (SNAPP) Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: Nevada Summary: Using a large and diverse membership, the Skagit Summary: Partners have formed interagency program areas Watershed Council has provided a successful forum and interagency teams around strategic goals, for a collaborative and strategic approach to salmon resulting in successful on-the-ground projects. habitat restoration and protection. Website: www.publiclands.unlv.edu/whatwedo.html Website: www.skagitwatershed.org Contact: Angie Lara, Associate Field Manager, Bureau of Contact: Shirley Solomon, Chair, Skagit Watershed Council, Land Management, 702-515-5025, 360-419-9326, [email protected] [email protected]

242 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Southern Nevada Lands Partnership Project Name: Steens Mountain Wilderness Fence Removal Location: Far West: Nevada Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: Multi-agency and community partnerships conserve Summary: With BLM support, three citizen groups participated and steward “outside Las Vegas” using innovative in six week-long volunteer work parties and funding and legislative authorities. provided over $60,000 worth of volunteer labor to Website: www.snlandspartnership.org remove 16 miles of unneeded fence wire and posts. Contact: Alan O’Neill, Executive Director, Outside Las Vegas Contact: Karla Bird, Andrews Field Manager, Bureau of Land Foundation, 702-461-6162, Management, Burns District, 541-573-4425, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Initiative Project Name: Stewardship Partners Location: Far West: Alaska Location: Far West: Washington Summary: The Southwest Alaska Salmon Habitat Initiative is a Summary: Helping private landowners to restore and preserve cooperative conservation program to allow willing the natural landscapes of Washington State. landowners to sell inholdings along salmon rivers Website: www.stewardshippartners.org for conservation and public access purposes. Contact: David Burger, Executive Director, Stewardship Website: www.swakcc.org Partners, 206-292-9875, Contact: Glenn Elison, Alaska Director, The Conservation [email protected] Fund, 907-868-7974, [email protected]

Project Name: Spokane District Packer Creek Hydrolic Restoration Project Name: Suisun Marsh Managed Wetlands Enhancement Project Project Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: California Summary: Partners worked together to restore the hydrology Summary: Thanks to a major NAWCA grant, the Suisun Marsh and associated wetland complexes of Packer Creek, Managed Wetlands Enhancement Project will while still maintaining livestock forage production, help enhance and restore water quality at one of wildlife habitat and watershed needs. California’s largest and most important natural Contact: Todd Thompson, Wildlife Biologist, Bureau of Land wetlands. Management, Spokane District, 509-536-1241, Contact: Steve Chappell, Executive Director, Suisun [email protected] Resource Conservation District, 707-425-9302, [email protected]

Project Name: Square Lake Preserve Project Name: Sustainable Wine Grape Growing in California Location: Far West: Idaho Location: Far West: California Summary: Surrounded by public land, the Square Lake Summary: California winegrowers use innovative partnerships Preserve protects critical habitat for greater sage to advance projects ranging from habitat grouse, a declining species in the West, and other restoration to “green building.” sagebrush steppe obligates. Website: www.cawg.org Website: www.woodriverlandtrust.org/squarelake.html Contact: Karen Ross, President, California Association of Contact: Allison Kennedy, Planning Coordinator, Wood River Winegrape Growers, 916-924-5370, Land Trust, (208) 788-3947, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: St. Joe Project Name: Sustaining Ecosystems, Fisheries, and Recreation, Location: Far West: Idaho Channel Islands Summary: The Trust for Public Land is involved in a significant Location: Far West: California project to acquire conservation easements on Summary: A 4-year effort to build a community consensus roughly 80,000 acres along the St. Joe River in based on science for a reserve network successfully northern Idaho. identified recovery goals for fisheries, biodiversity, Contact: Tom Sadler, Director of Program Development, Trust education, economics, and heritage values. for Public Land, 202-543-7552, [email protected] Contact: Gary E. Davis, Visiting Chief Scientist, National Park Service, 805-658-5707, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 243 Project Name: Tarboo Watershed Project Project Name: Traditional Knowledge & Environmental Location: Far West: Washington Stewardship Summary: This project works with landowners and partner Location: Far West: California organizations to assess, protect, and restore ﬁsh Summary: A Native American and Community Forestry and wildlife for the beneﬁt of the local community Collaborative Discussion was convened by CLC, and future generations. Seventh Generation Fund and several co-sponsors; Website: www.nwwatershed.org all presenters were Native American people. Contact: Peter Bahls, Director, Northwest Watershed Website: www.clcircle.org Institute, 503-235-2716, [email protected] Contact: Jude Wait, Director, Collaborative Learning Circle, 707-223-0848, [email protected]

Project Name: The Habitat Trust for Wildlife Project Name: Transforming Development via Sea Grant Extension Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Hawaii Summary: Working cooperatively with local grassroots Summary: Hawaii Sea Grant Program lent neutrality & organizations and landowners, THT manages credibility to Federal tech assistance, allowing and owns in fee title over 500-acres of globally local parties with differing views to collaborate imperiled habitats in biodiversity hotspots. effectively on a better approach to community Website: www.TheHabitatTrust.org development. Contact: Leeona Klippstein, President, The Habitat Trust for Website: www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/theme/cce/ Wildlife, 910-947-5091, [email protected] themeteam2.php Contact: Gordon Grau, Director, University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, 808-956-7031, [email protected]

Project Name: Threemile Canyon Farms Multi-Species Candidate Project Name: Trumpeter Swan Restoration Conservation Agreement Location: Far West: Idaho, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Location: Far West: Oregon Wyoming, Montana Summary: Threemile Canyon Farms set aside nearly 22,600 Summary: A private/public captive breeding and release contiguous acres for the Washington ground program for trumpeter swans in the Rockies has squirrel, and is working with The Nature helped prevent their listing as endangered. Conservancy and Portland General Electric to Website: www.r6.fws.gov/redrocks/rrl3.htm manage the area. Contact: William M. Long, President, Wyoming Wetland Contact: Rich Szlemp, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish Society, 307-730-4444, [email protected] and Wildlife Service, 503-231-6179, [email protected]

Project Name: Tillamook Resource Area Riparian Restoration Project Name: U.S. Mexico Border 2012 Program Effort Location: Far West: California, South-Central/South-West: Location: Far West: Oregon Texas, New Mexico, Arizona Summary: Recognizing the need to encourage riparian Summary: Bottom up approach places management decisions restoration on not just BLM lands, the Salem District at the appropriate level - Local communities set joined with partners to work on riparian restoration their priorities, while federal and state agencies in the Tillamook Resource Area. address regional and border-wide problems. Contact: Tom McDermott, Nestucca-Neskowin Watersheds Website: www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/ Council, Tillamook Estuaries Partnership, Contact: Jerry Clifford, Deputy Assistant Administrator, 503-392-6134, [email protected] Ofﬁce of International Affairs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 202-564-6600, [email protected]

Project Name: Tomales Bay Watershed Project Name: Upper Deschutes Resource Management Plan Location: Far West: California Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: The “all-stakeholder” Tomales Bay Watershed Summary: Resource Management Plan was developed and Council formed in 2000 and its 30 members consensus was reached between rancher advocates unanimously adopted a 135-page watershed plan in and environmental groups on a grazing matrix that 2004. categorizes allotments for use. Website: www.tomalesbaywatershed.org/index.html Website: www5.or.blm.gov/Prineville/Deschutes_RMP/Home. Contact: Neysa King, Watershed Coordinator, Tomales htm Bay Watershed Council, 415-663-9092, Contact: Teal Purrington, Project Manager, Bureau of Land [email protected] Management, Prineville District, 541-416-6772, [email protected]

244 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Upper Joseph Watershed Project Name: Vegetation in the Central Mojave Desert Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: California Summary: Watershed restoration is bridging boundaries Summary: Consortium of land managers classifies and maps between public and private lands, bringing vegetation distribution in eastern Mojave Desert to socioeconomic benefits to the community and manage invasive species, protect habitat, and plan improving conditions for multiple endangered for fires. species. Website: www.mojavedata.gov/ Contact: Diane Snyder, Executive Director, Wallowa Contact: Kathryn Thomas, Ecologist, U. S. Geological Survey, Resources, 541-426-8053, 928 556-7327, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Upper Klamath Basin Working Group Project Name: Wallowa Resources Location: Far West: California, Oregon Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: A community stakeholder group created by Senator Summary: The group aims to promote community, forest and Mark O. Hatﬁeld in 1996 to develop consensus watershed health while creating family-wage jobs solutions to complex agricultural and endangered and business opportunities from natural resource species issues associated with water allocations. stewardship. Website: www.fs.fed.us/r6/frewin/projects/ukbwg/ Website: www.wallowaresources.org Contact: Mark Stern, Director, Klamath Basin Conservation Contact: Diane Snyder, Executive Director, Wallowa Area, The Nature Conservancy, 503-802-8100, Resources, (541) 426-8053, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Project Project Name: Warner Basin Weed Management Area Location: Far West: Idaho Location: Far West: Oregon Summary: The goal of the project is to maintain and restore Summary: The Weed Management Area (WMA) was anadromous ﬁsh habitat, and achieve a balance established in 1998 to cooperatively inventory and between resource protection and use within the treat noxious weeds over several jurisdictions within watershed through collaboration. the 500,000-acre Warner watershed. Website: www.modelwatershed.org/index.html Contact: Joe Tague, Acting District Manager, Bureau of Land Contact: Russell Knight, Coordinator, Upper Salmon Management, Lakeview District Ofﬁce, Basin Watershed Project, (208) 756-6322, 541-947-2177, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Upper Santa Clara River Watershed Arundo And Project Name: Washington State Military Sustainability Program Tamarisk Removal Plan (SCARP) Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: California Summary: The military sustainability program uses a multi- Summary: The goal behind SCARP is to allow any agency stakeholder process to integrate conservation and or organization to perform arundo & tamarisk sustainable land practices into military operations. removal projects of any size within upper Santa Website: www.afcee.brooks.af.mil/sf/sed/ Clara River watershed. Contact: Katherine Baril, Director, Washington State Website: www.vcrcd.org Governor Locke’s Institute for Sustainability and Contact: Brent Wimmer, Assistant Project Technician, Ventura Innovation, 360-379-5610 x202, [email protected] County Resource Conservation District, 805 396-4685, [email protected]

Project Name: Upper Snake River Land Conservation Project Project Name: Water Without War: Cooperative Salmon Location: Far West: Idaho Restoration Summary: The combined efforts of BLM, local landowners, Location: Far West: Oregon, Washington and conservation organizations has conserved more Summary: River collaboration restores threatened ﬁsh than 14,000 acres of private land along Idaho’s by improving in-stream ﬂow, habitat and upper Snake River. water quality, while sustaining local farms and Contact: Karen Rice, Idaho Falls District LWCF Coordinator, communities. Bureau of Land Management, (208) 524-7549, Website: www.wallawallawatershed.org [email protected] Contact: Kevin Scribner, Walla Walla Watershed Alliance, 509-520-8040, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 245 Project Name: Watershed Research and Training Center (Hayfork Project Name: Willapa Bay Cooperative Restoration Effort Partnership) Location: Far West: Washington Location: Far West: California Summary: Project partners are cooperatively managing forests Summary: WRTC is a community based non-proﬁt across ownership boundaries to maintain the rich organization, started in 1993 to promote healthy biological legacies remaining within this area of communities and sustainable forests through southwest Washington. research, education, training, and economic Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/ development. washington/preserves/art12965.html Contact: Lynn Jungwirth, The Watershed Research and Contact: Tom Kollasch, Ellsworth Creek Forest Manager, The Training Center, 530-628-4206, [email protected] Nature Conservancy of Washington, 503) 325-3896, [email protected]

Project Name: West Coast Collaborative Project Name: Yainix Ranch Project Location: Far West: Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon, Location: Far West: Oregon Washington, South-Central/South-West: Arizona Summary: A working lands conservation easement and Summary: Partnership between leaders from federal, state, a conservation investment model supports and local government, the private sector, and sustainable approaches for ranch management and environmental groups committed to reducing diesel collaborative conservation solutions. emissions along the West Coast. Website: www.sustainablenorthwest.org/programs/range.php Website: www.westcoastcollaborative.org Contact: James Honey, Program Ofﬁcer, Sustainable Contact: Dennis McLerran, Executive Director, Puget Northwest, (503) 221-6911, Sound Clean Air Agency, 206-689-4004, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: West Eugene Wetlands Partnership Project Name: Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council Location: Far West: Oregon Location: Far West: Alaska Summary: An eight-organization partnership has implemented Summary: Indigenous grassroots organization of more than 60 land acquisition, habitat restoration, environmental tribes provides critical technical assistance to local education and recreation facilities development tribes to help them protect and preserve the Yukon over a 13-year period. River watershed. Website: www.ci.eugene.or.us/parks/wetlands/ Website: www.yritwc.com/ Contact: Eric N. Wold, Wetlands Program Supervisor, City of Contact: Rob Rosenfeld, Program Director, Yukon River Eugene, Parks and Open Spaces, (541) 682-4888, Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, 907-451-2530, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Willamette River Water Trail Location: Far West: Oregon National Summary: The Willamette River Water Trail is a community- driven partnership effort that illustrates what can be achieved when local communities work together towards a common goal. Website: www.willamettewatertrail.org/ Contact: Mark A. Brown, Willamette River Navigator, BLM, (541) 520-3886, [email protected]

Project Name: Willamette Sustainable Rivers Project Project Name: America’s Private Lands Conservation Partnership Location: Far West: Oregon Location: National Summary: Identify environmental ﬂow requirements for the Summary: Conservation Districts carry out natural resource Willamette River and tributaries; link to restoration management programs at the local level and work and potential changes in operation of Army Corps with more than 2.5 million cooperating landowners of Engineers facilities. on nearly 98 percent of U.S. private lands. Contact: Leslie Bach, Director of Freshwater Programs, The Website: www.nacdnet.org Nature Conservancy, 503-802-8100, [email protected] Contact: Christa Jones, Regional Representative, National Association of Conservation Districts, [email protected]

246 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: American Chestnut Restoration Project Name: Center for Plant Conservation Location: National Location: National Summary: Using new technologies and a strong partnership, Summary: The cooperative CPC network conserves and blight resistant strains of American Chestnut are restores the rare native plants of the U.S. CPC being used to restore the tree to its former range. maintains the National Collection of Endangered Website: www.acf.org/default.htm Plants, more than 600 of the nation’s most Contact: Marshal Case, President and CEO, The American imperiled ﬂora. Chestnut Foundation, 802-447-0110, Website: www.centerforplantconservation.org [email protected] Contact: Mark F. Barnett, Communications Coordinator, Center for Plant Conservation, 314.577.9541, [email protected]

Project Name: American Heritage Rivers Initiative Project Name: Center for Plant Conservation Location: National Location: National Summary: American Heritage Rivers, designated by the Summary: The cooperative CPC network conserves and President, are engaged in community-driven, restores the rare native plants of the U.S. CPC public-private partnerships to protect and sustain maintains the National Collection of Endangered their environments, economies, and local heritage. Plants, more than 600 of the nation’s most Website: www.epa.gov/rivers imperiled ﬂora. Contact: Bess Gillelan, Director, Interagency Task Force on Website: www.centerforplantconservation.org American Heritage Rivers, 202-401-0226, Contact: Mark F. Barnett, Communications Coordinator, [email protected] Center for Plant Conservation, 314.577.9541, [email protected]

Project Name: Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative Project Name: CF Industries National Watershed Award Location: National Location: National Summary: The Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative Summary: The CF Industries National Watershed Award is a partnership among public and private recognizes outstanding community watershed organizations to determine trends in amphibian protection efforts. The award focuses on innovative, populations. non-regulatory approaches to improving water Website: armi.usgs.gov/ quality. Contact: Rick Kearney, ARMI National Coordinator, U. S. Website: cfindustries.com/commrelations/watershed/ Geological Survey, 703-648-5719, watershed.htm [email protected] Contact: Jesus I Peralta, Public Affairs Office, CF Industries, 202.371.9279, jperalta@cfindustries.com

Project Name: Answer The Call Initiative Project Name: Collaborative Resource Stewardship in National Location: National Trails System Summary: Restore and enhance upland game bird habitat on Location: National Forest Service and BLM lands in cooperation with Summary: The National Appalachian Scenic Trail must rely Quail Unlimited, NFWF and other partners. on partnerships to meet its mission. The trail is Contact: Roger Wells, National Habitat Coordinator, Quail maintained, managed and protected through a Unlimited, Inc., 620-443-5834, [email protected] unique cooperative arrangement. Contact: Pam Underhill, Superintendent, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, National Park Service, 304-535-6279

Project Name: ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Project Name: Collaborative Volunteer Invasives Monitoring Information Service Project Location: National Location: National Summary: The ATTRA project provides free information to Summary: Through partnerships with community volunteer farmers and educators about agricultural practices groups, NGO’s and government science agencies, which steward and protect natural resources, the NWRS has trained volunteers across the country through tollfree phone service, website, and to map invasive weeds on refuges using GPS units. workshops. Website: www.refugenet.org/new-invasives/vimp.html Website: www.attra.ncat.org Contact: Jenny Ericson, National Invasive Species Program Contact: Teresa Maurer, Sustainable Agriculture Program Specialist, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Manager, NCAT (Nat’l Ctr for Appropriate Wildlife Refuge System, 703-358-2063, Technology), 1-800-346-9140, [email protected] [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 247 Project Name: Cooperative Community-Based Habitat Restoration Project Name: Fish and Wildlife Service Fish Passage Program Location: National Location: National Summary: The partnership provides the framework for Summary: The Fish Passage Program works with public and FishAmerica, NOAA and local organizations to private partners nationwide to restore fish habitat restore marine and anadromous fish habitat by by removing local barriers to natural water flows. providing necessary technical and financial support. Website: www.fws.gov/fisheries/FWSMA/fishpassage/ Website: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_ Contact: Steven Moyer, Vice President Government Affairs & programs/crp/partners/fishamerica.html Volunteer Operations, Trout Unlimited, Contact: Johanna Laderman, Managing Director, 703-284-9406, [email protected] FishAmerica, 703-519-9691, jladerman@asafishing.org

Project Name: Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership Project Name: Freeport LNG Conservation Easement (CWRP) Location: National Location: National Summary: 77+ acre wetland held for mitigation on LNG Summary: The Corporate Partnership gives businesses a facility development, preserving key wetland structure in which to support federally-funded habitat from further encroachment and to educate coastal and other aquatic restoration and the public on the importance of wetland areas protection projects. Contact: Darrell H. Schwebel, President, Cradle of Texas Website: www.coastalamerica.gov/text/cwrp.html Conservancy, Inc., (979)285-2173, Contact: Patmarie Nedelka, CWRP Coordinator/Deputy [email protected] Director for Policy, Coastal America, 202-401-9928, [email protected]

Project Name: Critters Pocket Guide Series Project Name: GeoMAC Location: National Location: National Summary: Critters field guides have been distributed to over Summary: GeoMAC provides the public and wildland fire 232,000 students in 10 states nationwide through managers Internet access to interactive maps with interactive field and classroom programs. current wildland fire locations and perimeters. Website: www.wildlifeforever.org Website: geomac.gov/ Contact: Brett Richardson, Grants and Information Contact: Elizabeth Lile, Cartographer, U.S. Geological Survey, Coordinator, Wildlife Forever, 763.253.0222, 303-202-4326, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture Project Name: Grass Roots Source Water Protection Program Location: National Location: National Summary: As part of the National Fish Habitat Initiative, the Summary: Grassroots outreach and education program Joint Venture is developing a strategy for recovery encourages voluntary conservation by landowners, of the Eastern Brook Trout. farmers and ranchers to prevent drinking water Contact: Hannibal Bolton, Division Chief, Fish and Wildlife pollution. Management Assistance, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/ Service, 703-358-1718, [email protected] sourcewater04.htm and www.nrwa.org Contact: Brendan Murphy, National Rural Water Association, 580- 251-9080, [email protected]

Project Name: FireWise Communities Project Name: HabitattitudeTM Location: National Location: National Summary: FireWise Communities is a national initiative Summary: Habitattitude, an innovative partnership that helping communities and their residents design, unifies government and industry to promote build, and maintain fire resistant properties. environmentally responsible consumer behaviors to Website: www.firewise.org aquarium hobbyists, water gardeners and backyard Contact: Jim Smalley, National Fire Protection Association, pond owners. 617-984-7483, [email protected] Website: www.habitattitude.net Contact: Joe Starinchak, Outreach Coordinator, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 703-358-2018, [email protected]

248 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Help Us Stop the Spread of Aquatic Nuisance Project Name: National Burn Severity: Mapping, Analysis, and Species Service Location: National Location: National Summary: A cooperative effort between Federal, provincial, Summary: Mapping spatial patterns of wildland fire burn state, regional, and local agencies and many other intensity for all major fires in the US in support of stakeholders to prevent the westward spread land management decisions related to soil erosion, aquatic nuisance species in North America. water quality, and biodiversity. Website: 100thmeridian.org Website: burnseverity.cr.usgs.gov/fire_main.asp Contact: David Britton, Asst. Aquatic Nuisance Species Contact: Zhiliang Zhu, Research Geographer, U. S. Geological Coordinator, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Survey, 605 594-6131, [email protected] 817-272-3714, [email protected]

Project Name: LANDFIRE Project Name: National Fish Habitat Initiative (NFHI) Location: National Location: National Summary: LANDFIRE is a multi-organization partnership Summary: NFHI is a nationwide aquatic habitat health to identify and prioritize areas for, and improve strategy that harnesses the energies, expertise and coordination on, hazardous fuel reduction. existing partnerships of state and federal agencies Website: www.landﬁre.gov/ and conservation organizations. Contact: Bruce Jeske, LANDFIRE Project Manager, USDA Website: www.ﬁshhabitat.org Forest Service, 406-829-6702, [email protected] Contact: Eric Schwaab, Resource Director, International Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies, 202-624-7890, [email protected]

Project Name: Minority and Underserved in Urban Natural Project Name: National Marine Sanctuary Program Resource Conservation Location: National Location: National Summary: The NMSP has 11 Advisory Councils that provide Summary: A partnership with the USDA Forest Service to assist advice on education, outreach, research, science, minority communities in urban natural resource regulations, enforcement, and management conservation. planning to protect marine resources. Website: www.treelink.org/nucfac/ Website: www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov/welcome.html Contact: Zhu H. Ning, Professor, Southern University, Contact: Karen Brubeck, National Advisory Council (225)771-2262ext.267, [email protected] Coordinator, National Marine Sanctuary Program, 206-842-6084, [email protected]

Project Name: Monitoring Coastal Restoration Projects Manual Project Name: National Network of Forest Practitioners Location: National Location: National Summary: In partnership with numerous agencies and Summary: An alliance of rural people working to build a organizations, NOAA has compiled a comprehensive forest economy that is ecologically sound & socially manual on how to plan and conduct the just. An information clearinghouse, & a place for monitoring of coastal habitat restoration projects. people to meet, learn, & make their voices heard. Website: coastalscience.noaa.gov/ecosystems/estuaries/ Website: www.nnfp.org restoration_monitoring.html Contact: Thomas Brendler, Executive Director, National Contact: Felicity Burrows, Environmental Scientist, NOAA Network of Forest Practitioners, 401-273-6507, National Centers for Coastal and Ocean Science, [email protected] 301-713-3020, [email protected]

Project Name: Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium Project Name: National Park Trust Location: National Location: National Summary: A consortium of federal agencies produced a Summary: The National Park Trust is the only land conservancy comprehensive spatial database for user-speciﬁed uniquely dedicated to preserving America’s national mapping of 21 types of land cover anywhere in the system of parks, wildlife refuges, and historic U.S. monuments. Website: www.mrlc.gov/index.asp Website: www.parktrust.org/ Contact: Nick Van Driel, Geographer, U. S. Geological Survey, Contact: Paul C. Pritchard, President, National Park Trust, 605-594-6007, [email protected] 301-279-7275x11, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 249 Project Name: National Tribal Native Plant Initiative (NTNPI) Project Name: Partnerships for Bat Conservation Location: National Location: National Summary: On-going collaboration to provide information and Summary: Targeted conservation efforts involving a diverse facilities to tribes for growing native plants, while array of partners are protecting bats and their acknowledging speciﬁc needs and sensitivities of habitats in caves and mines. individual tribes. Website: www.batcon.org Contact: Larry Payne, Director – Cooperative Forestry, USDA Contact: Dr. Merlin Tuttle, President and Founder, Bat Forest Service, 202-205-1602, [email protected] Conservation International, 512-327-9721, [email protected]

Project Name: Native American Fish and Wildlife Society (Society) Project Name: Partnerships to Protect the Nation’s Wetlands and Location: National Coastlines Summary: The Society exists for the protection, conservation Location: National and enhancement of Native American ﬁsh & Summary: USDI Minerals Management Service is working with wildlife resources. coastal States to identify sand deposits in Federal Website: www.nafws.org/ waters suitable for beach restoration. Contact: Ira New Breast, Executive Director, Native Contact: Thomas Readinger, USDI Mineral Management American Fish and Wildlife Society, 303-466-1725, Services, 202-208-3530, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: NOAA Community-based Restoration Program and Project Name: Presidential Quail Initiative The Nature Conservancy Location: National Location: National Summary: Natural resource management agencies and groups Summary: The goal of this partnership is to restore and developed a national, habitat-based recovery plan protect marine biodiversity though habitat to reverse decline in bobwhite quail populations. restoration with an emphasis on science, Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/ community-based cooperation, and partnerships. quail04.htm Website: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_ Contact: Donald McKenzie, Northern Bobwhite Conservation programs/crp/partners/tnc.html Initiative Coordinator, Northern Bobwhite Contact: Rob Brumbaugh, Restoration Program Director, Conservation Initiative, 501-941-7994, Global Marine Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, [email protected] 401-874-6870, [email protected]

Project Name: North American Waterfowl Management Plan Project Name: Programs studying climate change, invasive Location: National species, and bald cypress swamp distribution Summary: Since 1986, joint venture partners have expended Location: National approximately $2.3 billion on habitat conservation Summary: Over 50 people volunteer to collect data in North projects, leveraging funds from multiple private, America and Eurasia on growth and distribution of State and Federal sources. wetlands invasive species: purple loosestrife. Website: birdhabitat.fws.gov/NAWMP/nort.htm Website: www.nwrc.gov/special/purplel/index.htm Contact: Seth Mott, Chief, Branch of Science and Planning, Contact: Beth A. Middleton, Research Ecologist, U.S. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,, 703-358 1969, Geological Survey, 337-266-8618, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Partnership Series Project Name: Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and Location: National the Environment Summary: The Partnership Series fosters the empowerment Location: National of people and organizations working together Summary: The challenges associated with preparing a 10-Year toward sustainable landscapes, economies, and strategy & implementation plan revolved around communities. striking an acceptable balance between the vastly Website: www.ntc.blm.gov/partner diverse ideologies of the group members. Contact: Richard Whitley, National Stewardship & Website: www.ﬁreplan.gov Partnership Coordinator, USDI Bureau of Land Contact: Corbin Newman, Forest Service Coordinator, Management (WO-170), 541-618-2305, National Fire Plan, 202-205-1332, [email protected] [email protected]

250 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Project Name: Return of the Wild Turkey in North America Project Name: Tools and Techniques for Assessing the Risk of Location: National Aquatic Invaders Summary: The National Wild Turkey Federation worked with Location: National its partners to restore wild turkeys to all suitable Summary: The partnership has developed a dynamic alert habitat across North America. system that helps natural resource managers Website: www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/history_of_ manage the impact of invasive species on native hunting.html species and habitats. Contact: Rob Keck, Chief Executive Ofﬁcer, National Wild Website: nas.er.usgs.gov Turkey Federation, 803-637-3106, [email protected] Contact: Sharon K. Gross, Program Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey, 703-648-4076, [email protected]

Project Name: RTR – Respect the (Rio, River, Resource) Project Name: Unlikely Allies for Conserving Endangered Species Location: National Location: National Summary: With the premise to educate, empower and restore, Summary: Safe Harbor Agreements and compatible use this partnership has helped restore watersheds on buffers used on and off Army bases contribute ten National Forests, Recreation and Scenic Areas. to recovery of the endangered red-cockaded Contact: Kimberly Kelly, Forest Education Coordinator, USDA woodpecker. Forest Service, 505-829-3535, [email protected] Contact: Michael Bean, Wildlife Chair, Environmental Defense, 202-387-3500 ext. 3312, [email protected]

Project Name: Sage Grouse Working Groups Project Name: USGS assistance to USDA Conservation Reserve Location: National Program Summary: The Sage Grouse Working Groups seek to improve Location: National sage grouse numbers and protect habitat for the Summary: USGS furnishes scientiﬁc guidance and reﬁnement bird to conserve the species and preclude the need for USDA- FSA conservation management policies for listing under the Endangered Species Act. about wildlife, their habitats, and environmental Website: www.grousepartners.org/ quality. Contact: James Mosher, Executive Director, North American Website: www.fort.usgs.gov/resources/research%5Fbriefs/ Sage Grouse Partnership, (301) 223-1533, landowners.asp [email protected] Contact: Arthur W. Allen, Wildlife Biologist, U. S. Geological Survey, 970-226-9312, [email protected]

Project Name: Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers! Project Name: USGS Responds to the Emergence of Infectious Location: National Disease Summary: Through social marketing, Stop Aquatic Location: National Hitchhikers! simplifies this complex issue, makes it Summary: This partnership identifies emerging wildlife relevant to recreational users and empowers them diseases, such as Type E botulism, amphibian and with prevention procedures. coral reef diseases, tularemia in rabbits, and exotic Website: www.protectyourwaters.net parasites of endangered fishes. Contact: Joe Starinchak, Outreach Coordinator, U.S. Fish & Contact: Rick Kearney, Program Coordinator, U. S. Geological Wildlife Service, 703-358-2018, Survey, 703-648-4019, [email protected] [email protected]

Project Name: Team Tamarisk: Cooperating for Results Project Name: Walk A Mile in My Boots is Implemented Location: National Nationwide Summary: The Albuquerque Team Tamarisk conference Location: National launched Team Tamarisk as an inclusive alliance of Summary: Cattlemen and biologists spend several days cooperating agencies and individuals devoted to together, experiencing ﬁrst-hand each other’s day- the control of non-native invasive plants. to-day activities, with the goal of opening the lines Contact: Tim Carlson, Executive Director, Tamarisk Coalition, of communication, and developing partnerships. 970-248-1683, [email protected] Website: www.fws.gov/walkamile/ Contact: Stacey Katseanes, Associate Director, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, 202-347-0228 x114, [email protected]

Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation I Appendix 251 Project Name: Watershed and Weather Information News Network Location: National Summary: Educational public outreach working to incorporate environmental issues and conservation messages into daily weather forecasts. Website: www.thewatershedcenter.org/ Contact: Sara Espinoza, Project Manager, National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, 202-261-6490, [email protected]

Project Name: Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) Location: National Summary: Western Regional Air Partnership produces technical analyses, policies, and integrated, consensus solutions for addressing regional haze in the West. Website: www.wrapair.org Contact: Patrick Cummins, WRAP Co-Director, Air Quality Program Mgr, Western Governors Association, 303-623-9378, [email protected]

Project Name: Wildland Fire Leadership Council Location: National Summary: The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) was established in April 2002 to implement and coordinate the National Fire Plan and Federal Wildland Fire Policy inplementation. Website: www.ﬁreplan.gov Contact: Corbin Newman, National Fire Plan Coordinator, USDA Forest Service, 202-205-1332, [email protected]

Project Name: Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Contest Location: National Summary: The State-Fish Art Contest has educated thousands of students nationwide about America’s ﬁsheries, helping to creating knowledgeable future leaders of cooperative conservation efforts. Website: www.stateﬁshart.com Contact: Brett Richardson, Grants and Information Coordinator, Wildlife Forever, 763-253-0222, [email protected]

Project Name: Wildlife Habitat Registry Location: National Summary: To provide a web mapping tool to facilitate collaboration among wildlife biologist in federal, state, and tribal agencies and among NGO’s involved in wildlife habitat projects. Website: ims.geodata-mt.com/nwhpr.htm Contact: Marcy Allen, NWR Development Team, Geodata Services, 406-721-8865, [email protected]

252 Appendix I Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation Editors’ Note

In presenting the 152 projects that make up the body of Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation, we have worked conscientiously to make certain that project proﬁles are accurate, inclusive of the most essential information, and reﬂective of the range of partners engaged in them.

We are aware that the full depth and richness of any one of these projects cannot be fully captured in a one page summary of so many diverse and multi-faceted conservation activities. We are also aware that the full range of partners engaged in many of these projects would require pages to list; we have only listed a handful because of space limitations.

We assume responsibility for any omissions in our effort to document the work and remarkable achievements of citizen conservationists nationwide. We ask that any additions or corrections necessary to improve Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation be submitted to one of the two individuals listed below. They will process your submissions and make appropriate changes to the electronic versions of your project summaries that will be available online following the conference.

Contacts:

Karl Hess U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 703-358-2293 [email protected]

Gail Michaels U.S. Forest Service 321-773-7558 [email protected]

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