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Accelerating Cooperative Conservation as a way of Doing Business: Building Capacity, Skills, and Practices Across Organizations
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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Building Successful Partnerships
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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Expanding the Role of Tribes, States and Communities in Cooperative Conservation
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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Improving Certainty and Incentives for Stakeholders
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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Infrastructure Projects: Collaborative Partnerships for Successful Outcomes
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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Managing Diverse Resource Demands on America’s Public Lands: A Cooperative Approach to Improving Conservation
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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Measuring Success of Cooperative Conservation Efforts
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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Reaching Across Boundaries to Promote Shared Governance
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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Using Science and Technology to
Reach Cooperative Conservation Goals
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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