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