A Progress report on the Interagency strategy for accelerating cooperative riparian restoration and management

60 Pages·2002·21.9 MB·English

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A Progress Report
on the Interagency Strategy
for Accelerating Cooperative
Riparian Restoration and
Management
U.S. Department of the Interior USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Land Management a Natural Resources Conservation Service
Septe
National Riparian Service Team:
Wayne Elmore, Team Leader
Carol Connolly, Public Affairs Specialist
Susan Holtzman, Team Coordinator
Steven Leonard, Rangeland Ecologist
Lisa Lewis, Soil Scientist
Janice Staats, Hydrologist
Laura VanRiper, Student Career Experience Program
Ron Wiley, Fisheries Biologist
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September 2002
Suggested citation:
National Riparian Service Team. 2002. A progress report on the interagency strategy for
accelerating cooperative riparian restoration and management. Bureau of Land Management,
Denver, Colorado. BLM/WO/GI-02/011+1737. 50 pp.
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Alaska: Klawock Watershed Assessment ............ 14
Arizona: Blue River Assessment and Management and
Monitoring Recommendations=e.e. 4e.ee 16
California: Warner Mountain Rangeland Project ..... 18
Canada: Whistler Community Training
and Assesstnent. 20. +... 8 eee 20
Colorado: Long Gulch Training, Assessment, and
Management Reegmmendationss 95 a. eee 22
Idaho: Trout Creek Proper Functioning
Condition Assessincnt, ee 23
Mexico: Working with Communities and Creeks
in Mexico =r ien2 0S os ge ee a eee I)
Montana: Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest ..... 27
Nevada: Western Region Cooperative
EXtensiOne Talis cerw ee ceeSe 29)
New Mexico: South and Main Diamond Creek ...... 30
North Carolina: National Forests in
North: Carolina“. .- 4. a eee eee Sal
North Dakota: Proper Functioning Condition
raining ingNoriy Wakotze ass. 2. 32
Oregon: Burnt River Proper Functioning
Conditiongssessiient ays 20aa ) 34
Texas: Texas Riparian Association and
Followup lratnine 9 ete peers ee ee eee 36
Utah: Salt-Creek, Canyonlands National lvarim eemer ae a7
Washington: Walla Walla Community Proper
Functioning Condition Workshop .......... 39
Wyoming: Cumberland Allotment Cooperative
Resource Managemen t gas mesirrme anean e renes 42
Appendix Ace Key Contacts. are (ete ee 45
Appendix Bz raining: rod ucts sas. rae eee eee ee 47
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Riparian and wetland This strategy was initiated in approximately 10,000 people.
resources are receiving an 1996 by the U.S. Department Approximately 125 service
increasing amount of attention of the Interior (USDIJ) Bureau trips have resulted in assistance
as more people are realizing of Land Management, and the to an additional 2,500 people.
the important values produced U.S. Department of
from this relatively small Agriculture (USDA) Forest The activities outlined in this
portion of the landscape. Service, in partnership with strategy are successfully
Along with this attention the USDA Natural Resources achieving its objective of
comes increasing conflict Conservation Service. A bringing people together to
surrounding the condition and network of individuals was build awareness and
management of these areas. formed to implement the understanding, which leads to
The interagency strategy, strategy. Implementation has improved relationships as well
“Accelerating Cooperative been focused primarily in the as restoration and
Riparian Restoration and Western United States, with management of riparian-
Management,” was developed some introduction in other wetland resources. People are
to address conflicts within the parts of the country, Canada, learning skills and being given
field of riparian-wetland and Mexico. Inherent in this tools that are enabling them to
management. It represents an strategy is the recognition that participate more fully and
innovative approach for effective restoration and effectively in addressing
fostering collaboration and management is best achieved resource issues. This strategy
public participation. It is through participation by those provides a model that is
designed to facilitate the with local interests. An responsive to public
development of relationships, extensive outreach and expectations and desires.
increased communication, education effort encourages Through this type of
social learning, and, ultimately, problem resolution at the approach, there is opportunity
the cooperative management ground level by the people to achieve sustainable and
of riparian-wetland areas. It is most affected. Over 250 productive environmental
an approach that effectively briefings and presentations conditions while realizing
blends aspects of physical and introducing the strategy have much higher levels of civil
biological science with reached between 8,000 and interaction and responsibility.
dimensions of social science to 9,000 people. To date, over
achieve results for resources 325 training sessions have
and communities. been conducted for
ta Ee I Fe
»
Introduction some of which are critical to evolving operating framework
local communities. People are of an interagency strategy,
beginning to come together as “Accelerating Cooperative
The U.S. Department of the
they recognize the benefits Riparian Restoration and
Interior (USDJI) Bureau of
they receive from riparian and Management,” which is
Land Management and the
watershed function, including currently being implemented
U. S. Department of
long-term water supplies and by the National Riparian
Agriculture (USDA) Forest
maintenance of water quality. Service Team (NRST), made
Service, in partnership with
There is growing awareness up of members from each
the USDA Natural Resources
and concern about the agency, and other members of
Conservation Service, are
condition of riparian areas and a Riparian Coordination
implementing a strategy to
general agreement that much Network. It includes
create strong, lasting, public
more can be done to improve examples of capacity-building
and private partnerships to
their level of productivity and efforts with agencies, tribes,
address riparian-wetland
sustainability. and communities that are
restoration and management.
designed to encourage and
Riparian-wetland resources
This document describes the enhance collective action at
have been a focal point on the
underlying principles and the the local level. A diverse list
landscape for the past several
decades. The attention they
4 Sp acity. Webster’s Ey defines capacity as “the ability to
have received is apparent in
VER done;t he power to analyze ideas and cope with
both an increased amount of
Re tore can reside at the individual, community, and
litigation over the values they
produce and a rise in the
number of conservation
programs designed to improve
their condition. Riparian Ser is Aheit own bert The likelihood of
areas! constitute a small ; sucha ction is sa facilitated Pet he presence or
percentage of the total land
base, yet they provide
tremendous public benefits,
&
! The material presented throughout this document applies to both riparian and wetland areas; however, reference is occasionally
made only to riparian areas as a matter of convenience.
of contacts illustrates an “Restoration will not happen treatments and tools that can
extensive outreach effort by regulation, changes in the be successfully employed to
initiated to establish law, more money, or any of restore and maintain them.
relationships and develop the normal bureaucratic The ability to achieve success
understanding. Feedback approaches. It will only occur in this endeavor is dependent
regarding the effectiveness of through the integration of upon being able to bring
this program to date is ecological, economic, and communities of people
provided from a sample of social factors, and together to create a common
participants, along with an participation of affected vision for productive and
explanation of a formal interests.” sustainable riparian-wetland
program evaluation process. conditions. This strategy is
Experience from the initial guided by the assumptions
The agencies
years of implementation, that to be effective, riparian
coupled with results from the recognized that restoration and management
program evaluation, will help must:
because riparian-
shape the activities of the
wetland areas often
coming years. </ Ensure management and
| pass through or are
problem resolution at the
The Strategy
| shared by numerous ground level by the people
/ landowners, a most affected
In March 1996, the agency » A, collaborative
/ Be based on common
heads of the USDI Bureau of "approach applied at
Land Management and the goals, objectives, and,
the ground level, —
USDA Forest Service agreed perhaps most importantly,
_ ina watershed
to implement a strategy for common sense
the purpose of “accelerating context, is essential
@ Promote establishment of
cooperative riparian
common terms, definitions,
restoration and
and methods
management.” The USDA
Natural Resources
Focus effort where there is
Conservation Service became
The strategy is designed to a high probability for
a principle partner in this
address one of the major positive change with a
strategy. The agencies
barriers to achieving healthy reasonable investment
recognized that because
systems, the polarity and
riparian-wetland areas often
</ Encourage voluntary
gridlock created from strongly
pass through or are shared by
held values and interests. restoration of private lands
numerous landowners, a
While awareness regarding the
collaborative approach applied
The strategy is designed for
importance of riparian-
at the ground level, in a working directly with people
wetland areas is increasing,
watershed context, is essential
on the land, in their location,
there is considerable
for success. The nature of this
focusing on their issues. It
disagreement about the
strategy is clearly identified in
can best be described as
existing conditions of these
the following statement from
helping people to reach
resources, the types of uses
the initial charter:
enough agreement about the
that are appropriate, and the