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Sunday, August 28, 2005
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Participants Arrive in St. Louis |
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6:00 PM |
Opening Reception |
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Monday, August 29, 2005
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8:00 AM |
Welcome and Plenary Session |
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Jim Connaughton, Chairman, White House
Council on Environmental Quality Mayor Francis Slay, St.
Louis Senator Jim Talent, United States Senator from
Missouri Secretary Norton, Department of Interior |
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9:30 AM |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Case studies highlight some of the very
best examples of cooperative conservation. Participants will
learn from some of the most successful practitioners of
cooperative conservation just what can be achieved when using
collaborative strategies to address conservation, natural
resource and environmental issues. |
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The case studies presented during the
remainder of Day One are grouped into four major topical
areas. |
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DEFINITIONS |
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(M) Cooperative Conservation in
Metropolitan Areas and Towns: Integration and
Innovation |
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Growing populations, depleted resources,
economic challenges, and environmental degradation create a
wealth of opportunity for cooperative conservation projects in
metropolitan communities and similar settings. These case
studies will highlight outstanding collaborative approaches
being applied by organizations and individuals in cities,
towns, and metropolitan regions across the country. The
presentations will serve to illustrate how these efforts
protect and improve human health and the environment while
concurrently advancing economic vitality. From these
presentations, conferees will achieve a fuller understanding
of the tools and processes available for meeting community
goals through cooperative conservation. |
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(R) Cooperative Conservation in Rural
America: Healthy Lands and Healthy Communities |
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America's rural communities exist within a
vast private and public land base that includes cropland,
rangeland, pastureland and forestland. Sessions will showcase
a broad spectrum of premier cooperative conservation projects
in the rural setting. The case studies will highlight the
tools and processes available for cooperatively conserving
natural resources in an economically sustainable way resulting
in both healthy landscapes and thriving communities. |
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(W) Cooperative Conservation of
Wildlife and Habitats: Partnering to Sustain Nature's
Legacy |
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Due to multifaceted, incentive-based
partnerships, new and effective strategies are emerging for
the conservation of species in new places and at scales
unattainable in the past. These case studies will illustrate
how partners are using cooperative approaches, a variety of
incentive-based tools and creative strategies in diverse
settings to achieve environmental, recreational, cultural and
economic objectives in the conservation of plants and animals
and their habitats. |
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(C) Cooperative Conservation of
Coastal and Marine Habitats |
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Activities in coastal watersheds,
estuaries, and oceans affect the health of coastal and marine
ecosystems that contribute to the nation's economy. These case
studies will identify challenges to maintaining the health of
these systems and explore opportunities for cooperative
approaches to restore and maintain their ecological function
and the economic value provided by fisheries, tourism,
recreation, and transportation. |
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Title: - (M) Philadelphia Vacant Land
Management & Reclamation |
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A half-century of divestment and
depopulation has resulted in 40,000 abandoned and derelict
parcels of land in Philadelphia. In 1995, the Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society partnered with city agencies and
community organizations to create a system for addressing the
social, environmental, and economic impacts inflicted by
vacant land in the urban environment. With support from city,
state and federal governments, as well as private foundations
over the past decade, this vacant land management project has
achieved significant accomplishments, demonstrating an
innovative approach to cooperative conservation in an urban
setting. |
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Title: - (M) Chicago Wilderness and
Calumet Initiatives |
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Chicago Wilderness is a consortium of more
than 180 public and private agencies working together to
protect and restore globally significant ecosystems stretching
from southeastern Wisconsin to northwestern Indiana. The
Calumet Initiative has similar goals for the rustbelt
landscape of southeast Chicago and NW Indiana, and also seeks
to bring environmentally clean jobs back to the region. The
session will highlight how these two related partnerships have
transcended political and geographic boundaries to enhance the
region's ecological assets while also strengthening the
economy. |
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Title: (M) Collaboration in the Great
Lakes: Metropolitan Detroit Conservation
Partnerships |
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The Detroit River Watershed, traditionally
know for automobile manufacturing, steel making and heavy
industry, offers world-class water, wildlife, heritage and
recreational opportunities. It is no secret that Southeast
Michigan has suffered from pollution and other negative
impacts of global industrialization. However, there’s a change
happening, due to innovative partnerships, the region is
becoming a model for preserving and enhancing quality of life
by protecting regional resources. This session highlights how
unique cross-border partnerships established North America's
only international wildlife refuge. This project is a prime
example of locally led partnerships within the broader context
of the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration effort. |
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Title: (R) Malpai Borderlands
Partnership |
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The Malpai Borderlands is an area of a
million acres of private, state-owned and federal land along
the Arizona and New Mexico border. Led by ranchers committed
to protecting and restoring ecological diversity and the
productivity of the Borderlands, the partnership has protected
77,000 acres of privately owned land through conservation
easements, grass-banking and wildlife habitat restoration. As
a result, the partnership has improved rangeland conditions
and promoted sustainable ranching, preserving a working
landscape as an alternative to subdivision and development of
agricultural land. |
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Title: (R) Missouri Watershed Research
Assessment and Stewardship Project and the Iowa Buffer
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Home to numerous crop and livestock farms,
Northern Missouri is a productive agricultural region. Over
time, high levels of agricultural pesticides have resulted in
local reservoirs being listed as “impaired water-bodies”. With
the support of landowners, this project has collected water
data and promoted best management practices as a way of
reducing pollution and raising farmers’ profits. Also learn
how this innovative and unique team in Iowa used a unique
number of strategy strategies to encourage farmers to install
conservation buffers statewide. This progressive
public/private partnership worked with used education,
research, the media and employed financial incentives to
negotiate a staggering 41,064 contracts for over 330,715 acres
of buffers. |
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Title: (R) Community-Based Sustainable
Wine Grape Growing in California |
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California winegrowers have a long history
of proving that economic gain need not compromise
environmental conservation. With practices including placing
lands in conservation easements, replanting eroded riparian
areas and native oaks, encouraging migratory bird habitat, and
providing for endangered species, their model for
community-based environmental stewardship is a fine
contribution to the wine industry nationally and
internationally. Through shared partnerships with Federal,
state and local organizations, the California wine industry is
influencing and advancing environmental practices, not only
for their industry but for agriculture as a whole. |
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Title: (R) Blackfoot
Challenge |
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Popularized by the movie A River Runs Through It,
communities in western Montana's rural Blackfoot River Valley
are working to balance protection of natural resources and
rural lifestyles with increasing demands of destination
recreation, floating, fishing and vacationing. To address
these growing impacts, private landowners, federal and state
land managers, local government officials, and corporate
landowners created the Blackfoot Challenge that along with
over sixty public and private partners collaborate on
cooperative conservation. This diverse group seeks common
ground to address issues such as subdivision, weeds, water
quality and quantity, drought, wildlife management, and
sustainable agriculture. By squarely confronting these issues
and engaging all stakeholders in an open forum, solutions have
evolved where problems once loomed. |
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Title: (W) Lower Colorado River
Multi-Species Conservation Program |
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In addition to being rich with
biodiversity, the Lower Colorado River provides water and
power to over 20 million people in the states of California,
Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. To protect and enhance this
resource, a diverse coalition of more than 50 partners work to
implement a conservation plan for habitat restoration to
benefit 26 species and create 8,100-plus acres of riparian,
marsh and backwater habitat. The 9 year-old partnership
features a 50-year commitment, with costs shared equally
between Federal and nonfederal partners. |
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Title: (C) Onslow-Bight Conservation
Forum |
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Mix explosive coastal population growth,
military bases, national forest and refuges, fishermen,
hunters, farmers, and foresters and you have land use
conflicts and environmental degradation. The Forum is
rewriting this recipe by helping diverse interests mutually
benefit from better environmental stewardship. Over 7,500
acres of land has already been protected. |
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Title: (C) Washington State Olympia
Oyster Restoration |
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More than 100 partners, including private
landowners, Tribes, States and Counties, the shellfish
industry, community organizations, schools and the U.S. Navy,
have joined forces to restore the Olympia oyster, the only
native oyster of the Pacific Northwest coast. By leveraging
federal funds, 5 million oysters have been spread at 80 sites
in a community-based effort to restore an essential component
of the marine ecoystem and an icon of Washington State
history. |
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11:00 AM |
Luncheon Plenary Session |
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Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Department of
Defense |
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12:30 PM |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Title: (R) Nisqually River Watershed,
Olympia Washington: A Balanced and Inclusive Approach to
Stewardship |
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The Nisqually River Task Force was created
in 1985 as a vehicle for implementing a locally based approach
to the protection and betterment of this unique area. The
resulting Nisqually River Management Plan convened the
Nisqually River Council. Over nearly two decades, the Council
and its many partners have achieved tremendous results through
a number of collaborative programs to address timber harvest
and land use issues, species recovery and allocations of water
for people and fish throughout the watershed. This unique
partnership is now undertaking the creation and implementation
of a sustainable approach to development and economic vitality
that supports continued investment in the watershed
ecosystem. |
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Title: (M) Phalen Corridor, A
Comprehensive Rebuilding of the Urban Environment on A Massive
Scale, St. Paul MN |
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Abandonment of industrial sites,
disinvestment of housing, neglect of commercial properties and
degradation of natural lands affects cities and towns of all
sizes across the country. This session will highlight how a
diverse coalition of citizens, corporations, government
agencies and developers have realized a $600 million
collective vision to restore jobs, introduce sustainable
housing, build bike trails and a road and reclaim the natural
environment in four diverse communities. |
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Title: (M) New York City Conservation
Reserve Enhancement Program |
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Watersheds surrounding the metropolitan
area supply drinking water to over 9 million New York City and
State residents. This session will highlight how a unique
coalition of landowners, farmers and government agencies are
working collaboratively to protect stream corridors, enhance
the quality of life and greatly reduce the costs associated
with providing quality drinking water to the people of New
York City. |
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Title: (R) Southwest Collaborative
Forest Restoration |
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This session features one Healthy Forest
Initiative and one Healthy Forest Restoration Act project in
the American Southwest; the White Mountain Stewardship project
in Arizona and the Thunderbird/Tajique Watershed project in
New Mexico. Both have overcome significant cultural and
institutional barriers in pursuit of their mission. This case
study presentation will highlight the innovative tools and
approaches being used to enhance forest and watershed health,
reduce fuel loads contributing to high fire risk, and create
jobs in nearby communities. |
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Title: (R) Northwest Florida Greenway
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Northwest Florida is one of the most
biologically diverse regions in the nation. The area also
serves as the home to five major military installations and
the Joint Gulf Range Complex, which represent the nation’s
largest military test and training complex. Incompatible
development and the loss of open natural lands threaten the
region's military mission, unique biodiversity, silviculture
industry, and recreational opportunities. This presentation
will illustrate how the Northwest Florida Greenway Project
partnership is working to protect the valuable environmental,
military, recreational and economic values of this
region. |
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Title: (R) Northern Forest
Partnership |
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Most of Northern Maine forests have been
privately owned and managed for decades for timber production,
while providing access for hunting, fishing and outdoor
recreation. Recently much of this land has been sold to
investors whose financial interests promote both timber and
real estate valuations. Current forest development pressures
breed forest fragmentation and undermine natural resource
values underpinning rural economies. The Pingree Forest
Partnership and the Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership have
protected 1.1 million acres in the past five years by
protecting working forest lands through removing developing
rights and bolstering the emerging economy for natural
resource dependent communities. |
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Title: (W) Wetlands, Birds, and Bears
– A Louisiana Happening |
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The indigenous hardwood forests of the
Lower Mississippi River have been called North America's rain
forest. It was a rich diverse ecosystem home to resident and
migrant species alike. Over 90 percent of the forest in
Louisiana has been converted to cropland, much of which was
submarginal to marginal at best. Various programs,
initiatives, and partnerships have developed to help
landowners convert these marginal croplands back to their
natural state. Numerous species from waterfowl to neotropical
songbirds to the endangered Louisiana black bear are favorably
responding to the restoration activities. Public agencies
working with private landowners and conservation organizations
are establishing and expanding tens of thousands of acres of
habitat. |
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Title: (W) Conserving Prairie Ranches,
Ranchers, and Grassland Birds |
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The grassland and wetland complexes of the
prairie pothole region are critical habitat for numerous
species of waterfowl, shorebirds and songbirds. Most of the
land in the region is privately owned and managed by
descendants of the ranching families who homesteaded the area
in the 1800’s. Today these families face numerous financial
challenges which prevent them from keeping the native
rangeland intact. To address this challenge, more than 1,400
ranch families have partnered with wildlife conservationists
to protect over 522,000 acres of wetland and grassland habitat
in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. |
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Title: (W) Partnerships To Protect
Cave Habitats |
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Cave habitats are home to some of the
Nation's most interesting, valuable and imperiled species.
This session highlights two sites where innovative
partnerships are conserving these underground ecosystems:
Texas' Bracken Bat Cave, which shelters the largest remaining
concentration of mammals on Earth, and two caves systems in
Madison County, Alabama, where the Alabama cave shrimp is
teetering on the brink of extinction. |
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Title: (C) Hawaii Coral Reef and
Native Algae Restoration |
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Hawaii’s coral reefs and other near-shore
marine ecosystems have a formidable foe: alien marine algae.
But a coalition of local residents, organizations and
government agencies at several levels launched a
community-based effort to restore these areas. Through
cleanups and monitoring, community members learn about reef
ecology, alien species’ impacts and resource
stewardship. |
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2:30 PM |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Title: (M) Sonoita Valley Planning
Partnership |
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The Sonoita Valley is an ecologically
unique area of desert grasslands and riparian areas east of
Tucson, Arizona. This session will highlight how a diverse
coalition of volunteers, government agencies and private
organizations overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to
enable establishment of a National Conservation Area for the
protection of this invaluable resource. In addition, the
Sonoita Valley Planning Partnership negotiated a long-range
plan of occupancy and use of connected watersheds that strives
to preserve ecological and environmental values to assure
equitable and healthful occupancy over generations. |
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Title: (M) Lower Bronx River (NY): A
Community Led Restoration Initiative |
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Due to channelization and bank armoring,
the inter-tidal portion of the Bronx River exhibits little of
the vegetation that once dominated its shores. Long stretches
of bulkhead and sheet piling provide little or no habitat for
marine and estuarine fish and dumping and filling in tidal
wetlands has raised elevations and contaminated the soil. This
diverse partnership is committed to restoring the riparian and
tidal area on the west bank of the river at the site of an
abandoned cement plant. Their work involves removing large
blocks of concrete and debris, re-grading the banks, removing
invasive plant species and replacing the riparian zone with
native plants. |
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Title: (R) Central Texas
Sustainability Partnership |
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The project establishes a successful model
of cooperation among private landowners for landscape-level
recovery of listed species and the restoration of historic
plant communities. Central Texas Cattlemen's Association, U.S.
Army (Ft Hood, TX), The Nature Conservancy, Environmental
Defense, Texas Department of Agriculture, Texas Wildlife
Association, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department, assisted by the Leon River
Restoration Project, Natural Resources Conservation Service
and Texas A&M University, launched this cooperative effort
to balance the training demands at Ft. Hood with the need to
sustain the natural resources of Central Texas. Ranchland
habitat is being restored and enhanced for the endangered
Black-capped vireo and Golden-cheeked warbler. |
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Title: (C) Northwest Straits Marine
Conservation Initiative |
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Research surveys and studies have shown
that Puget Sound is facing rapid degradation. Threats to
marine species and habitat have deep ramifications in adjacent
communities. Since its inception in 1998, the Northwest
Straits Marine Conservation Initiative has achieved tremendous
results for the betterment of Puget Sound. With the support of
Congress, seven citizen-led groups and a coordinating
commission have established marine protected areas, conducted
inventories seminal to the conservation of key salmon species,
restored native oysters and succeeded in removing enormous
quantities of fishing debris from the ocean floor. |
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Title: (R) Partners Restore Glacial
Ridge Tallgrass Prairie |
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In October of 2004, Glacial Ridge became
the Nation's 545th National Wildlife Refuge. At its core is
24,000 acres that form the largest prairie and wetland
reconstruction project in the country. Here more than 30
partners have played an active role in returning the land to
its pre-settlement condition. When fully restored, the lands
will provide tremendous habitat for moose, gray wolf,
waterfowl, prairie chickens and other upland game birds, and a
host of other prairie species. |
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Title: (W) White Moutain Apache
Tribe |
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The White Mountain Apache Tribe strives to
protect the land and all the resources it supports. Proactive
resource management integrates the sustainable protection of
sensitive species with inherent cultural values and primary
economic benefits for present and future generations. Logging,
ranching, world-class trophy elk hunting and a thriving
outdoor recreation program co-exist with successful management
programs for Spotted Owls, Mexican Wolves and Apache
Trout. |
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Title: (W) Return of the Wild Turkey
in North America |
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Due to restoration efforts by state and
provincial wildlife agencies, which were accelerated by the
NWTF and its partners, nearly 7 million wild turkeys inhabit
North America. Since 1985, the NWTF and its cooperators have
spent $202 million dollars on projects benefiting wild turkeys
and other wildlife, including $11.5 million on projects within
the National Forest System. |
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Title: (W) Presidential Bobwhite
Initiative in Conservation Reserve Program |
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Populations of northern bobwhite quail and
other grassland birds have declined dramatically over the past
40 years as a result of habitat loss. The "Northern Bobwhite
Conservation Initiative" charts an ambitious path to restore
quail to their 1980 levels across the species' range. In
August 2004, President Bush announced a major bobwhite habitat
initiative to help launch the NBCI restoration process. The
Initiative partnership, which is fueled by a 250,000-acre
enrollment authority under the Conservation Reserve Program,
has already protected about 35, 000 acres for bobwhites and
other birds. |
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Title: (W) Enlisting Private
Landowners and the Army for Endangered Species |
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Conservation of the red-cockaded
woodpecker has challenged both private landowners and the Army
in the Southeast. Initiatives on and off Army bases, including
novel safe harbor agreements and Army compatible use buffers
with private landowners, are helping this endangered species
recover. Those efforts have become models for conservation
efforts elsewhere. |
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Title: (R) Water Without War:
Cooperative Salmon Restoration |
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This presentation will highlight a
comprehensive cooperative conservation project that involves
local, state, Federal, environmental, agricultural and Tribal
entities who are working together for the recovery and
protection of salmon, steelhead and bull trout populations and
the quality of their habitat in the Walla Walla Basin in
southeast Washington and northeast Oregon while also
preserving local agricultural economies and tribal
customs. |
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4:30 PM |
Plenary Session |
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Secretary Mike Johanns, Department of
Agriculture Chuck Leavell, Rolling Stones |
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6:00 PM |
Reception |
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
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8:00 AM |
Plenary Session |
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Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Mayor Patrick McCrory,
Charlotte, NC Senator Mike Crapo, United States Senator
from Idaho Mayor Anthony Williams, Washington DC Mayor
Francis Slay, St. Louis |
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9:40 AM |
Concurrent Sessions |
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Facilitated discussions will examine some
of the most challenging aspects of working collaboratively.
Rich dialogue and suggestions for advancing the goals of
collaborative conservation will be the result of these
discussions. There are nine topics presented, repeated in the
two concurrent session time periods. |
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Title: Accelerating Cooperative
Conservation as a way of Doing Business: Building Capacity,
Skills, and Practices Across Organizations |
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The shared wisdom of the public and
private sectors--non-profits, the business community,
government agencies, Tribes, community groups, private
landowners and interested citizens--needs to be effectively
engaged for cooperative conservation to flourish and endure.
This session will elicit suggestions on building capacity,
skills and practices that advance cooperative
conservation. |
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Title: Building Successful
Partnerships |
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Strong and sustainable partnerships
represent the foundation of every successful cooperative
conservation endeavor. Participants will identify key
principles for building trust and offer individual suggestions
to integrate partnerships into conservation efforts. Tools for
successful partnerships, case study presentations from Day One
of the conference and personal experience will serve as the
basis for discussion. |
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Title: Expanding the Role of Tribes,
States and Communities in Cooperative Conservation |
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Nonfederal participation is vital to the
development and implementation of sound environmental
conservation. This discussion will provide a forum for
conferees to explore ways, such as shared stewardship and
innovative management practices, to expand the roles of
tribes, states and local communities as partners with Federal
agencies. |
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Title: Improving Certainty and
Incentives for Stakeholders |
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Generating stakeholder participation is
crucial to the successful completion of cooperative
conservation projects. This session seeks to identify and
improve existing incentives and mechanisms for providing
certainty in conservation efforts by exploring opportunities
for improving and developing policies and programs across
government, business, private and non-profit
sectors. |
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Title: Infrastructure Projects:
Collaborative Partnerships for Successful Outcomes |
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Government agencies at all levels are
engaged in infrastructure development and management that
requires substantive communication and cooperation with
communities, non-governmental organizations and the public for
successful outcomes. A wide range of public infrastructure
types are involved: transportation, facilities, utilities, and
many other forms of physical infrastructure. Session
participants will identify cross-cutting themes, propose
collaborative approaches and discuss policies, processes and
legislative solutions. |
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Title: Managing Diverse Resource
Demands on America’s Public Lands: A Cooperative Approach to
Improving Conservation |
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Growing demands on finite natural
resources increase the need for careful management of diverse
uses. This session will address multiple use conflicts,
cooperative resolution, and shared decision strategies.
Conferees will explore collaborative approaches to improving
use compatibility and suggest solutions to the obstacles
inherent in potentially inconsistent resource demands.
Examples may include the relationship between mineral
development and habitat conservation, motorized and
non-motorized recreation, irrigation and fisheries
needs. |
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Title: Measuring Success of
Cooperative Conservation Efforts |
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Setting common goals and measuring and
monitoring the results of cooperative conservation efforts are
essential, not only to substantiate the merits of a project,
but for purposes of adaptive management as well. This session
will provide a forum for conferees to explore collaborative
approaches, and discuss policies, processes and legislative
solutions for optimizing cooperative conservation
efforts. |
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Title: Reaching Across Boundaries to
Promote Shared Governance |
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A fundamental hurdle facing many
cooperative conservation projects is that jurisdictional and
political boundaries oftentimes do not coincide with landscape
realities. Complex ecological issues are requiring more
sophisticated landscape-level responses from society. This
discussion will explore the strategies needed for shared
governance to achieve conservation and economic benefits for
communities through inclusive and adaptive
structures. |
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Title: Using Science and Technology to
Reach Cooperative Conservation Goals |
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Science and technology play a critical
role in successful cooperative conservation efforts. This
discussion will provide a venue to identify the ways science
and technology can be used to inform stakeholder decisions. In
addition, conferees will explore new approaches to
streamlining and improving the development and application of
scientific and technological tools. |
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12:40 PM |
Luncheon |
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2:00 PM |
Concurrent Sessions |
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There are nine topics presented, repeated
in the two concurrent session time periods. |
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Title: Accelerating Cooperative
Conservation as a way of Doing Business: Building Capacity,
Skills, and Practices Across Organizations |
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The collective wisdom and commitment of
public and private organizations, non-profits, the business
community, government agencies, local community groups, and
private landowners must be effectively engaged in order for
cooperative conservation to flourish and endure. This session
will elicit individual suggestions on how organizations of all
types can employ organizational structures, cultures and
practices that facilitate cooperative approaches to
conservation. |
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Title: Building Successful
Partnerships |
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Strong and sustainable partnerships
represent the foundation of every successful cooperative
conservation endeavor. Participants will identify key
principles for building trust and offer individual suggestions
to integrate partnerships into conservation efforts. Tools for
successful partnerships, case study presentations from Day One
of the conference and personal experience will serve as the
basis for discussion. |
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Title: Expanding the Role of Tribes,
States and Communities in Cooperative Conservation |
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Nonfederal participation is vital to the
development and implementation of sound environmental
conservation. This discussion will provide a forum for
conferees to explore ways, such as shared stewardship and
innovative management practices, to expand the roles of
tribes, states and local communities as partners with Federal
agencies. |
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Title: Improving Certainty and
Incentives for Stakeholders |
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Generating stakeholder participation is
crucial to the successful completion of cooperative
conservation projects. This session seeks to identify and
improve existing incentives and mechanisms for providing
certainty in conservation efforts by exploring opportunities
for improving and developing policies and programs across
government, business, private and non-profit
sectors. |
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Title: Infrastructure Projects:
Collaborative Partnerships for Successful Outcomes |
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Government agencies at all levels are
engaged in infrastructure development and management that
requires substantive communication and cooperation with
communities, non-governmental organizations and the public for
successful outcomes. A wide range of public infrastructure
types are involved: transportation, facilities, utilities, and
many other forms of physical infrastructure. Session
participants will identify cross-cutting themes, propose
collaborative approaches and discuss policies, processes and
legislative solutions. |
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Title: Managing Diverse Resource
Demands on America’s Public Lands: A Cooperative Approach to
Improving Conservation |
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Growing demands on finite natural
resources increase the need for careful management of diverse
uses. This session will address multiple use conflicts,
cooperative resolution, and shared decision strategies.
Conferees will explore collaborative approaches to improving
use compatibility and suggest solutions to the obstacles
inherent in potentially inconsistent resource demands.
Examples may include the relationship between mineral
development and habitat conservation, motorized and
non-motorized recreation, irrigation and fisheries
needs. |
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Title: Measuring Success of
Cooperative Conservation Efforts |
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Setting common goals and measuring and
monitoring the results of cooperative conservation efforts are
essential, not only to substantiate the merits of a project,
but for purposes of adaptive management as well. This session
will provide a forum for conferees to explore collaborative
approaches, and discuss policies, processes and legislative
solutions for optimizing cooperative conservation
efforts. |
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Title: Reaching Across Boundaries to
Promote Shared Governance |
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A fundamental hurdle facing many
cooperative conservation projects is that jurisdictional and
political boundaries oftentimes do not coincide with landscape
realities. Complex ecological issues are requiring more
sophisticated landscape-level responses from society. This
discussion will explore the strategies needed for shared
governance to achieve conservation and economic benefits for
communities through inclusive and adaptive
structures. |
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Title: Using Science and Technology to
Reach Cooperative Conservation Goals |
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Science and technology play a critical
role in successful cooperative conservation efforts. This
discussion will provide a venue to identify the ways science
and technology can be used to inform stakeholder decisions. In
addition, conferees will explore new approaches to
streamlining and improving the development and application of
scientific and technological tools. |
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6:00 PM |
Reception |
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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8:00 AM |
Closing Plenary |
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Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Department of
Commerce Federal and Non-Federal Panel Discussion Jim
Connaughton, Chairman, White House Council on Environmental
Quality |
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11:30 AM |
Conference Ends |
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