Cooperative Conservation Amreica
A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies
Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic
Project Name: Conserving Maryland’s Threatened Bog Turtle
Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maryland
Summary: The Partnership is working with private farmers and landowners to help recover the threatened bog turtle.
Website: www.bogturtles.org
Contact: Tim Male
Senior Ecologist
Environmental Defense
2023873500 tmale@ed.org
 
Project Name: Tucquan Glen Nature Preserve
Location: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania
Summary: The Conservancy, landowners, donors, foundations and government agencies permanently protected this 500 acre rhododendron-canopied ravine, for wildlife and people, over 2 decades.
Website: www.lancasterconservancy.org
Contact: Jennifer Johnson
Director, Marketing Communications
The Lancaster County Conservancy
717.392.7891 jjohnson@lancasterconservancy.org
 
Southeastern
Project Name: Conserving Georgia's Dwindling Farmland
Location: Southeastern: Georgia
Summary: The Athens Land Trust and the Oconee Partnership for Farmland Protection worked to place a conservation easement on a portion of the Breedlove-Powers Farm in rapidly-developing Oconee County, Georgia.
Contact: John Kissane
Conservation Director
Athens Land Trust
706.613.0122 conservation@athenslandtrust.org
 
Project Name: Suwannee River Partnership
Location: Southeastern: Florida
Summary: The Partnership is working with producers to improve river water quality through a voluntary program of Best Management Practices (BMP) and verification.
Website: mysuwanneeriver.com
Contact: Jeffrey Woods
Assistant State Conservationist for Programs
Natural Resources Conservation Service
352-338-9515 jeffrey.woods@fl.usda.gov
 
Project Name: Southern Appalachian Elk Restoration
Location: Southeastern: Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina
Summary: Restoration of elk to its historic eastern range is underway in the southern Appalachians, with elk populations in Kentucky now exceeding 5,550.
Website: www.rmef.org/bugle/pages/05MA/appalachian_1.html
Contact: David Ledford
Southeast Initiative Program Director
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
606-330-0179 dledford@RMEF.org
 
Project Name: Northern bobwhite restoration in middle and western Tennessee
Location: Southeastern: Tennessee
Summary: We are improving bobwhite nesting and brood rearing habitat on private lands through Farm Bill conservation programs and producer incentive payments.
Contact: Roger Wells
National Habitat Coordinator
Quail Unlimited, Inc.
620-443-5834 roger@qu.org
 
Project Name: Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Programmatic Safe Harbor
Location: Southeastern: South Carolina
Summary: Safe Harbor agreement was established in South Carolina to address landowner concerns and to provide sufficient assurances to engage them in woodpecker habitat conservation.
Contact: Michael Bean
Sr. Attorney, Ecosystems Program
Environmental Defense
202-387-3500 ext. 3312 michael_bean@environmentaldefense.org
 
Midwest/Northern High Plains
Project Name: North Lake Basin Wetlands Restoration
Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska
Summary: Contaminated ground water is cleaned with innovative technology and used to restore wetlands in a critical migratory waterfowl flyway.
Website: www.fsa.usda.gov/dafp/cepd/epb/hazardous_waste.htm
Contact: Steve Gilmore
Program Manager for Hazardous Waste Activities
USDA Farm Service Agency
202-720-5104 sgilmore@wdc.fsa.usda.gov
 
Project Name: International Lake Level Management: Minnesota-Ontario Lakes region
Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
Summary: An international research program documents ecological changes associated with the new hydrologic regime in Namakan Reservoir, Voyageurs National Park.
Contact: Larry Kallemeyn
Research Scientist
U.S. Geological Survey
218-283-9821 larry_kallemeyn@usgs.gov
 
Project Name: Michigan Frog & Toad Survey
Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Michigan
Summary: The Michigan Frog and Toad Survey will provide a wealth of information on the status of Michigan frog and toad populations, and help monitor the quality of our environment.
Website: www.michigan.gov/dnr/1,1607,7-153-10370_12143_12194---,00.html
Contact: Lori Sargent
Natural Heritage Specialist
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
517-373-9418 SargenL2@michigan.gov
 
Project Name: Muddy Creek Coordinated Resource Management Project
Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
Summary: Muddy Creek project raised $2 million for habitat restoration to address natural resource management issues.
Contact: Larry Hicks
Natural Resource Coordinator
Little Snake River Conservation District
307-383-7869 lsrcd@yahoo.com
 
Project Name: Northwest Connections
Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary: Involves rural residents, students and government agencies in cooperative efforts to identify and restore critical habitat connections in the Swan Valley of Montana
Website: northwestconnections.org
Contact: Melanie Parker
Director
Northwest Connections
406.754.3185 nwc@montana.com
 
Project Name: Providing Data Critical to Managing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for a Keystone Species
Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
Summary: Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team conducts research and long-term radio monitoring efforts on expanding grizzly bear populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Website: www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/igbst-home.htm
Contact: Charles C. Schwartz
Principal Investigator
U. S. Geological Survey
406-994-5043 chuck_schwartz@usgs.gov
 
Project Name: Red River Basin Restoration Effort
Location: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
Summary: Partnership works with others to restore aquatic connectivity by removing or providing fish passage around select dams and other barriers to fish passage within the Red River basin.
Contact: Marcia C. M. de Almeida
Fish Passage Interim Coordinator R9
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
703-358-1941 Marcia_Almeida@fws.gov
 
South-Central/South-West
Project Name: Diablo Trust/Diablo Canyon Rural Planning Area
Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary: With a goal to provide a model for other rural communities across Arizona, and the West, the project has produced innovative planning methods to help protect the economic value of ranchlands.
Website: www.diablotrust.org
Contact: Hadassah Holland Ziegler
Administrative & Program Manager
The Diablo Trust
928-523-0588 info@diablotrust.org
 
Project Name: Arizona OHV Inventory Partnership
Location: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary: Interagency comprehensive inventory of existing OHV routes on FS, BLM, State Trust Lands in AZ.
Website: www.fs.fed.us/recreation/programs/ohv/
Contact: Jerry Ingersoll
OHV Program Leader
USDA Forest Service
202-205-0931 jingersoll@fs.fed.us
 
Project Name: Oklahoma Master Naturalist Program
Location: South-Central/South-West: Oklahoma
Summary: The goal of this program is to train a core of naturalists who then provide volunteer services, which includes environmental education, habitat enhancement, and public understanding of ecosystems.
Website: www.okmasternaturalist.org
Contact: Sharon Bennett
President, OK Master Naturalist Central Chapter
Oklahoma Master Naturalist Program
580-335-2289 sharon_bennett@mindspring.com
 
Far West
Project Name: Jacksonville Woodlands
Location: Far West: Oregon
Summary: Partners collaborated to establish a remarkable system of urban hiking and equestrian interpretative trails. The Federally listed lily Frittilaria Gentneri is located throughout the JWA lands.
Contact: Genivieve Rasmussen
Natural Resource Staff Administrator
Bureau of Land Management Medford District
541-618-2348 Genivieve_Rasmussen@blm.gov
 
National
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 mallen@geodata-mt.com
 
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 cnewman02@fs.fed.us