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Beyond the Boundaries. Forging Partnerships to Conserve Refuge Landscapes. Beyond the Boundaries. Basic Principle: Refuges in the Lower 48 are too small to fully achieve their conservation goals - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Beyond the BoundariesForging Partnerships to Conserve Refuge
Landscapes
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Beyond the BoundariesBasic Principle:
• Refuges in the Lower 48 are too small to fully achieve their conservation goals
• 2005 State of the System Report made the case that refuges need to function as part of a larger ecosystem - threats of development, invasive species
• This principle has gained great currency in the context of climate change, Strategic Habitat Conservation framework, new LCCs
• Refuges play a key anchor role - protecting both habitat and natural infrastructure
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Beyond the Boundaries
If: Some of the keys to wildlife adaptation are connectivity and the 3 Rs - representation, redundancy and resiliency….
Then: Our goal is to help refuges play a proactive, catalytic role in collaborative landscape scale conservation efforts - protecting, enhancing and expanding the Refuge System
This requires vision, relationships, strategy, creativity and determination
And this is where Friends come in: Putting the concepts into action
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• Identifying threats and opportunities for conservation adjacent to refuges
• Building and expanding constituencies for Refuges and other FWS programs through Friends Groups and partnerships
• Developing multiple sources, of financial support, both public and private
• Setting a proactive rather than reactive agenda
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Beyond the Boundaries• Work with Refuge Manager to identify threats, needs and
opportunities, and the right role for both Refuge and Friends
• Who are the partners - finding common goals among many different constituencies
• Coordinating among FWS and other agency programs - ES, Park Service, Natural Resource Conservation Service, NOAA -- especially with new climate change adaptation programs
• Typical components: Land Conservation, Habitat Restoration, Advocacy/Political Strategy, Visitor Services and Outreach, Funding - federal, local, private
• NWRA Criteria: transferable models, national issues, critical resources, refuge and regional support, funding feasibility
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Beyond the BoundariesWhat Can Friends Do?• Leadership: Work in partnership with Refuge Manager• Relationships: Ambassadors within the community• Eyes and Ears: Identify threats and opportunities -
development plans, adjacent landowners selling, water issues
• Build Bridges - local/regional initiatives that refuge could join, outreach to local officials and boards, bringing groups together
• Help fill gaps - citizen science for climate change• Advocacy, Fundraising, Friend-raising• Help think ahead
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NWRA Beyond the Boundaries Focus Areas
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Beyond the BoundariesNWRA’s Current Focus Areas:
• Southern Nevada - Desert Complex
• Florida - Chassahowitzka Complex - Crystal River NWR
• Lower Mississippi NWRs - Cache River (AR), Tensas (LA), TR Complex (MS), Atchafalaya (LA)
• Oregon Coastal NWR Complex
• Wisconsin - Horicon Marsh NWR
• DelMarVa Peninsula - Blackwater NWR
• Connecticut River Watershed/New England - Silvio Conte NFWR
• Bear River Watershed, UT, WY, ID
• Montana Prairie - Charles M. Russell NWR
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Chassahowitzka NWR ComplexCrystal River NWR, Florida
• Partnership with Friends of Chazz • Key property, threat of development• Needed leadership and strategy• Partner Coordination• Facilitating management and visitor services plans• Fundraising
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Threats and Opportunities
• Protect five springs• Guide public use• Build better community relations•Improve water quality•Restore wetlands•Expand the Refuge
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Many Goals, Many Partners
• Land Acquisition - Conservation Fund• Wetland Restoration - SW FL Water
Management District• Visitor Services Plan - Friends, FWS,
NWRA• Advocacy - Friends and NWRA• Fundraising - Friends, City, State, County,
FWS, NWRA, private
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Partnership! Partnership! Partnership!
The Conservation Fund America’s Conservation Partner
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Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain
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Research and Assessment
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Refine and Plan
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Vision and Partners
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Innovative Funding Strategies
• Carbon Sequestration• Ecosystem Services Investments• Credit Markets• Mix with traditional sources such as LWCF, Migratory Bird, NAWCA, Section 6
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Implement
• Land acquisition, ecosystem service assessments and community outreach at Cache River
• Explore Tensas boundary expansion• Friends capacity building and and acquisition
at TR Complex• Develop ecosystem services project model
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Bear River Watershed• River and watershed spans
three states and links three refuges - developing potential conservation easement program
• Working with Bear River refuge and Friends Group to develop watershed education program
• Supporting land acquisition and easement projects
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Bear River Watershed
• Cokeville Meadows NWR
• Bear Lake NWR
• Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
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Bear River Watershed
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Beyond the Boundaries