A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Passaic River Restoration Project
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey
Summary:: The PRRP is a cooperative effort among four Federal and two State agencies, NGOs and the private sector to restore the environmental values of the highly urbanized lower Passaic River in New Jersey.
Website:: www.ourpassaic.org
Contact:: Jonathan P. Deason, Ph.D.
Professor
The George Washington University
202-994-4827
jdeason@gwu.edu

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:: Waste Solutions Forum
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia
Summary:: Waste Solutions Forum brought together key stakeholders to assemble an action plan for implementing environmentally and economically viable solutions for excess animal waste in the Shenandoah Valley.
Website:: www.agnr.umd.edu/users/waterqual/VAwaste.doc
Contact:: Kathy Holm
Coordinator, Shenandoah RC&D
U.S. Department of Agriculture
(540) 248-3321
kathy.holm@va.usda.gov

Project Name:: Forest For Every Classroom
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Vermont
Summary:: A Forest For Every Classroom partnership created a stewardship program to build capacity in teachers. They learn about teaching place, forests, ecology, and using public lands as outdoor classroom.
Website:: www.nps.gov/mabi/mabi/education/forest.htm
Contact:: Kathleen Diehl
Partnership Coordinator

(802) 747-6709
kdiehl@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Merrymeeting Bay/Lower Kennebec Partnership
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
Summary:: The partnership seeks to restore and/or maintain sustainable fish and wildlife populations in lower Kennebec through acquisition of title or easement from willing private landowners.
Contact:: Will Brun
Director of Land Protection
The Nature Conservancy
207-729-5182 x207
wbrun@tnc.org

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: BP Wood River Refinery
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois
Summary:: A former unusable industrial property in Illinois is revitalized through efforts of multiple partners creating a redeveloped area and wildlife sanctuary.
Website:: www.wildlifehc.org
Contact:: Vanessa Kauffman
Director of Marketing & Communications
Wildlife Habitat Council
301-588-8994
vkauffman@wildlifehc.org

Project Name:: Preservation of Sleepy Hollow Ravine
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois
Summary:: How many corporate campuses boast 780,000 sq. ft. of office space & a 75-foot deep glacier-age ravine? $800,000 in funding was raised from City of Elgin, Kane County & Grand Victoria Foundation.
Website:: www.fvlf.org/conserv.html
Contact:: Marianne Nelson
Executive Director
Fox Valley Land Foundation
847-888-1897
fvlf@sbcglobal.net

Project Name:: Sandhills Task Force
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Nebraska
Summary:: Task force has obtained over two million dollars in grants for projects such as easement acquisition, planned grazing systems, grassland research, environmental, and stream and wetland restoration.
Website:: www.sandhillstaskforce.org/
Contact:: Gene D. Mack
Sandhills Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
308-236-5015 ext 27
gene_mack@fws.gov

Project Name:: Smithville Lake
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri
Summary:: The Missouri Corn Growers Association worked directly with Missouri corn farmers to implement BMPs to reduce runoff of the herbicide atrazine to the lake.
Website:: www.erc-env.org/WRASP.htm
Contact:: Steve Taylor
Program Director
Environmental Resources Coalition
573-634-7078
steve@erc-env.org

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Central Texas Sustainability Partnership
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: Conflict over habitat for two endangered species resulted in a diverse working group able to address the needs of both the species and affected landowners.
Contact:: Steve Manning
Leon River Restoration Project
Central Texas Cattlemen's Association
254-865-2054
manning254@aol.com

Project Name:: Thunderbird/Tajique Landscape Projects
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: Two landscape-scale projects with large partnerships are working to reduce fire hazard, improve forest health, and create jobs for community sustainability.
Website:: www.fs.fed.us/projects/hfi/examples/cibola-nf.shtml
Contact:: Phil Archuleta
Chief Executive Office
P&M Signs
505-847-2850
info@pmsignsinc.com

Project Name:: Jemez Mountains Forest/Fire Restoration Project
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: The aim of this collaborative project is to restore forest health and fire regimes in the Jemez Mountains using science-based assessment, planning and management.
Website:: nmconservation.org
Contact:: Anne Bradley
Fire Initiative Manager
The Nature Conservancy
505-988-3867
abradley@tnc.org

Far West

Project Name:: Building Collaborative Stewardship, North Fork Crooked River
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: Project is a model for future efforts as partners work together to forestall lawsuits and establish improvements on private land as well as Federal.
Website:: www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/projects/units/paulina/northfork/
Contact:: Janice Staats
Hydrologist
National Riparian Service Team
(541) 416-6891
janice_staats@or.blm.gov

Project Name:: Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters Restoration Program
Location:: Far West: Washington
Summary:: Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters Restoration Program provides assistance to agencies to restore the tributaries, waters, and shorelines of Puget Sound.
Website:: www.nws.usace.army.mil/PublicMenu/Menu.cfm?sitename=RPPS&pagename=home_page
Contact:: Brad Ack
Director
Washington State Puget Sound Action Team
360-725-5437
BAck@PSAT.WA.GOV

Project Name:: Sonoma Baylands Wetland Demonstration Project
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Restoration of a 320-acre tidal salt marsh helped to pull a vital dredging project out of a quagmire of environmental issues.
Contact:: Eric Jolliffe
Ecosystem Restoration Specialist
U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers
415. 503.6869
Eric.F.Jolliffe@usace.army.mil

Project Name:: California Resource Advisory Committees
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Partnerships between communities and national forests, bringing together diverse interests to collaboratively work on watershed restoration, fuels reduction and road maintenance projects.
Contact:: Chris Nota
Regional Forester’s Representative
USDA Forest Service
916-498-5901
cnota@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: East Bay Creek Restorations
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The East Bay Watershed Center at Merritt College has designed and/or implemented several urban creek restorations, wildfire control and public interpretive installations in the San Francisco Bay Area
Website:: www.merritt.edu/~envst
Contact:: Robin Freeman
Director
Merritt College Watershed Center
510-434-3840
rfreeman@merritt.edu, rfreeman@peralta.edu

Project Name:: MARINe Partnership with Paradise Cove Marine Elementary School
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Students at Paradise Cove Marine Elementary are using a Mineral Management Service long-term monitoring site to study intertidal marine life.
Website:: www.marine.gov
Contact:: Tom Readinger

USDI Minerals Management Service
202-208-3530
thomas.readinger@mms.gov

Project Name:: Salmon Creek Watershed Reforestation Project
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Bodega Land Trust and Forests Unlimited planted 600 redwood seedling on a BLT easement that was clearcut around 1900.
Website:: bodeganet.com/landtrust
Contact:: Sandy Sharp
Treasurer
Bodega Land Rtust
707-876-3093
landtrust@bodeganet.com

National

Project Name:: Tools and Techniques for Assessing the Risk of Aquatic Invaders
Location:: National
Summary:: The partnership has developed a dynamic alert system that helps natural resource managers manage the impact of invasive species on native species and habitats.
Website:: nas.er.usgs.gov
Contact:: Sharon K. Gross
Program Coordinator
U.S. Geological Survey
703-648-4076
sgross@usgs.gov

Current Conservation Programs