A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic

Project Name:: Lewiston Initiates Community Investment with Bates Mill Redevelopment
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
Summary:: The City of Lewiston, Maine cleaned up and redeveloped a former textile mill using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields funding. Existing structures were conserved.
Contact:: Tony Raia
Program Manager
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
202-566-2758
Raia.Anthony@epamail.epa.gov

Project Name:: Friends of the Rappahannock (F.O.R.)
Location:: Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Virginia
Summary:: Conservation and protection of the Rappahannock River and its watershed through locally-led partnerships promoting L.I.D practices, agricultural BMP’s and conservation easements.
Website:: www.riverfriends.org
Contact:: Tom Van Arsdall
Volunteer Chair
Friends of the Rappahannock
(540) 785-0949
tom@vanarsdall.com

Southeastern

Project Name:: Abacoa New Town
Location:: Southeastern: Florida
Summary:: Abacoa is a 2000-acre new town based on neo-traditional town planning principles, being built on land originally owned by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Website:: www.conservationfund.org
Contact:: Kendra Briechle
Manager Center for Conservation and Development
The Conservation Fund
703-525-6300
kbriechle@conservationfund.org

Project Name:: Lathrop Bayou Habitat Management Area
Location:: Southeastern: Florida
Summary:: Partners work across public and private boundaries, to provide funding, resources and expertise to manage intact long leaf forests.
Contact:: Bruce Dawson
Jackson Field Manager

601-977-5400
Bruce_Dawson@blm.gov

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Conservation Security Program in the St. Joseph Watershed
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
Summary:: The Conservation Security Program in the St. Joseph watershed rewards agricultural landowners for superior conservation and stewardship practices.
Website:: www.mi.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/cspstjoe.html
Contact:: Robin Ryan
District Administrator
Hillsdale County Conservation District
517-849-9890 x 191
robin.ryan@mi.nacdnet.net

Project Name:: Healthy Grown Potato Partnership
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wisconsin
Summary:: The partnership promotes IPM, plans to protect habitat and species on private lands, improvements to soil, water and air quality, using regional goals, and markets these efforts through an eco-label.
Website:: www.wisconsinpotatoes.com/fresh_healthy.htm
Contact:: Frank Casey, Ph.D.
Director, Conservation Economics Program
Defenders of Wildlife
202-682-9400
fcasey@defenders.org

Project Name:: Asian Long-horned Beetle Eradication
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Illinois, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York, New Jersey
Summary:: A coordinated effort among agencies and citizens to control the spread of the Asian Long-horned Beetle and restore infested areas with tree 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, Chicago
City of Chicago—Bureau of Forestry
312-747-2098
jmccarthy@cityofchicago.org

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Oklahoma Wildlife Alliance
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Oklahoma
Summary:: Oklahoma Wildlife and Prairie Heritage Alliance (OWPHA) provides a trusted and open forum for private landowners to engage with resource managers and conservation programs.
Website:: www.owpha.org
Contact:: Trapper Heglin
Coordinator
Oklahoma Wildlife and Prairie Heritage Alliance
(580) 735-2322
trapperheglin@pldi.net

Project Name:: Texas Master Naturalist Program
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: Master Naturalist volunteers provide education, outreach and service dedicated to beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas within their communities.
Website:: www.masternaturalist.tamu.edu
Contact:: Michelle Haggerty
State Coordinator
Texas Master Naturalist Program
(979) 458-2034
mhaggerty@wfscgate.tamu.edu

Project Name:: Neches River Saltwater Barrier
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:: The project insures freshwater availability for municipal, agricultural and industrial uses as well as providing for fish and wildlife habitat protection.
Website:: www.lnva.dst.tx.us/
Contact:: Robert Stroder
General Manager
Lower Neches Valley Authority
409-892-4011
roberts@lnva.dst.tx.us

Project Name:: French Gulch Remediation Opportunities Group
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: FROG seeks to clean up heavy metal contamination from the Wellington-Oro Mine in and around French Gulch, and to acquire mining company property for community open space and affordable housing.
Website:: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/frenchgulch.html
Contact:: Tim Gagen
Breckenridge Town Manager

(970) 453-3161
timg@townofbreckenridge.com

Project Name:: Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Utah
Summary:: The preserve protects and restores local wetlands that provide crucial habitat for millions of migrating and resident birds.
Website:: nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/utah/preserves/art5834.html
Contact:: Chris Brown
Preserve Manager
Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve
(801) 531-0999
christopher_brown@tnc.org

Project Name:: New Mexico Collaborative Forest Restoration Program (CFRP)
Location:: South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:: $18 million awarded for collaborative forest restoration, hazardous fuel reduction, or small diameter utilization treatment on 15,000 acres of forest land.
Contact:: Walter Dunn
Program Coordinator
USDA Forest Service
505-842-3425
wdunn@fs.fed.us

Project Name:: Northwest Colorado Stewardship
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Colorado
Summary:: Northwest Colorado Stewardship seeks to engage a wide diversity of local interests in working together to find solutions to previously intractable natural resource management issues.
Website:: www.nwcos.org
Contact:: Jeremy Casterson
Planning and Environmental Coordinator
Bureau of Land Management
(970) 826-5071
Jeremy_Casterson@co.blm.gov

Far West

Project Name:: West Eugene Wetlands Partnership
Location:: Far West: Oregon
Summary:: An eight-organization partnership has implemented land acquisition, habitat restoration, environmental education and recreation facilities development over a 13-year period.
Website:: www.ci.eugene.or.us/parks/wetlands/
Contact:: Eric N. Wold
Wetlands Program Supervisor
City of Eugene, Parks and Open Spaces
(541) 682-4888
eric.n.wold@ci.eugene.or.us

Project Name:: Integrating Desert Conservation, Visitor Services, and Public Safety
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Key government agencies created the California Desert Managers Group to coordinate conservation, recreation, research and other activities at a landscape scale.
Website:: www.dmg.gov
Contact:: Glen Black
Senior Environmental Scientist
California Department of Fish and Game
909-987-7449
gblack@dfg.ca.gov

Project Name:: Headwaters Corner Interpretive Center
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Community partners and conservation agencies collaborate to bring environmental education of regional significance to the general public of southern California.
Website:: www.mountainstrust.org
Contact:: Debbie O'Hare
Project Manager
Mountains Restoration Trust
818-591-1701
dohare@mountainstrust.org

Project Name:: Elk City Township Defensible Space Project
Location:: Far West: Idaho
Summary:: Treating vegetative growth on federally managed land near homes and facilities. This action will reduce the potential and intensity of wildfire.
Website:: www.FramingOurCommunity.org
Contact:: Joyce Dearstyne
Executive Director
Framing Our Community
208 842-2939
joyce@FramingOurCommunity.org

Project Name:: Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture
Location:: Far West: Idaho, Southeastern: Mississippi
Summary:: Bird conservation through multi-scale habitat objectives, tracking and monitoring, research, and restoration, enhancement or protection of over 1 million acres of habitat.
Contact:: Charles Baxter
Joint Venture Coordinator
US Fish and Wildlife Service
601-629-6600
charles_baxter@fws.gov

Project Name:: Multi-State Sage-grouse Conservation Initiative
Location:: Far West: California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, South-Central/South-West: Colorado, Utah
Summary:: A broadly-based cooperative effort utilizing working groups at the local level to restore habitats and rebuild populations of sage-grouse and other sagebrush-dependent wildlife across the West.
Contact:: Kathleen Clarke
Director USDI
Bureau of Land Management
202-208-3801
kathleen_clarke@blm.gov

Current Conservation Programs