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CBCN - North America
Sand County Foundation is supporting an array of community-based conservation initiatives throughout North America. The Community Based Conservation Network - North America (CBCN) provides technical assistance, facilitation, documentation, and hosts workshops and exchanges among groups of resource rights holders. The Foundation aims to identify and support local "champions" who are leading their community to improved resource management - the benefits of which are shared among resource holders. The Foundation seeks to illuminate those efforts in order to deepen public appreciation for the conservation benefits and to highlight models for other collaboratives.
Cooperative Sagebrush Initiative
The Coopartive Sagebrush Initiative (CSI) is an exciting new effort to develop incentives for landowners throughout an 11-State region of the US West to restore sagebrush steppe habitats. This region provides important habitat for many wildlife species and is economic livelihoods to many people and industries. This truly public-private partnership is seeking to expand the scale of cooperative conservation.
New Zealand – U.S. Fishermen Exchange
Sand County Foundation'’s Bradley Fund for the Environment has been a leader in investing in fundamental reform of the way access rights to marine resources are held by individuals and groups. Policy analysts and economists often point to New Zealand’s 20-year-old quota management system as one model of successful rights-based fisheries management. Building upon the Del Mar, California workshop, in March 2006, the Bradley Fund for the Environment, together with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Alex C. Walker Foundation, and California Sea Grant, sent 25 U.S. fishermen and decision-makers to New Zealand for first-hand exposure and effective formal and informal discussions. This exchange, and the follow-up activities, will highlight the role of secure rights, markets, monitoring, and the changing role of government agencies from micro-managers of fishing effort to guarantor of private and cooperative resource tenure.
Click link above for California Sea Grant newsletter (PDF) detailing the New Zealand quota management system.
Natural Resources as Community Assets - Lessons from Two Continents
Natural Resources as Community Assets brings under one cover the work of experienced CBNRM practitioners. This publication includes detailed case studies of CBNRM programs in both North America and Africa. It describes new tools for CBNRM practitioners, successful CBNRM programs, and recommendations by practitioners — many of whom have been practicing in the field for over thirty years. Click the link above to view or purchase the publication.
Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative (KQDC)
The Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative (KQDC) Area is 74,000 acres of public and private forest lands in Northwest Pennsylvania where science-guided management is producing quality deer and quality habitat. Sand County Foundation and its land managing and sportsmen partners are improving habitats and hunting opportunities, as well as creating a model of integrated monitoring and science to benefit the entire region.
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