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Making Plans Relevant and Used by Agencies and Partners
Discussion Leaders: Karen Terwilliger, Anna Smith
How and when do state Wildlife Action Plans have “traction” within the host fish and wildlife agency and their partners?
How can states help each other raise the profile of action plans?
What is the role for AFWA in raising the profile of action plans?
Perspective: Action Plan Relevance to our Agency and Key Partners
State Wildlife Action Plan KEEPS our AGENCY relevant
to the core and scope of its authority/mission
to its full responsibility to the resource- all wildlife
to its broader constituency- the public
=The opportunity to be the relevant state agency in wildlife conservation
Relevance of Plan for Agency and Partners
The Plan can be: The united blueprint for a full service State Fish and
Wildlife Agency
Vehicle to deliver holistic wildlife conservation – overabundant to rare- and show all the connections and interrelationships
The bridge, the glue between consumptive and non consumptive management and constituency
The Plan makes the agency relevant- documents its commitment to its responsibility, authority and constituency
The transformation to a broader constituency and holistic conservation/landscape science
History and Context of Wildlife Conservation
Era of Abundance - 1500 to 1849
Era of Over-exploitation - 1850 to 1899
Era of Protection - 1900 to 1929
Era of Game Management - 1930 to 1965
Era of Environmental Management - 1966 to 1979
Era of Conservation Biology - 1980 to present
Have our State Agencies adapted and evolved to meet
the need and authority for Wildlife Conservation?
Gaps were filled by other programs/agencies, NGOS, partners- e.g. NHP-NatureServe, environmental review, etc.
A Conservation Institution for the 21st Century: Implications for State Wildlife Agencies-JWM- Jacobson et al.
“The wildlife conservation institution needs to reform to maintain legitimacy and relevancy in the 21st century”
Principles for a State Agency Institution (N AM Model):
Public Trust Doctrine-all species and publicly owned
Broad Based funding
Trustee based governance- politics, accountability
Multidisciplinary Science as basis
Diverse stakeholder involvement
Is the State Wildlife Action Plan this Opportunity?
Agency Investment in Wildlife Diversity and the Wildlife Action Plan
Agency Resources
Resource authorityResource responsibil-ityBroad constituencyPublic and partner support
Objective: Plan Used by Agency and PartnersUse is correlated with:
1- Need or demand- ($, incentive)-fills a need
Provides data, criteria, support
2- Investment- participation/engagement
Confirms need to involve agency & partner programs
The more it supplies a demand, fills a need, supports a program, the more relevant and used it will be
The more the agency has invested in it the more it will be used
What do they give to or get from it? Our message should target this
What do our agencies have to loose- vs gain by not being inclusive and involving them- constituency and authority?
Elements 1-5 offer sound Conservation Planning Approach (6-8 interwoven into process) Simple Format for Plan- Element= Chapter
• ID conservation targets that can represent ALL species (harvested to endangered)
• Package inclusively into key habitats for all species not just SGCN (group by habitat or functional units)
• ID Threats and Actions that affect all species not just SGCN and highlight inclusive priorities
Keep it simple, user friendly and in their language
State Wildlife Action Plan Relevance:
How it can be Used and Relevant to State Agency Traction for Inreach
Habitat- data can be used by all agency programs NE geospatial condition analysis,
Conservation assessment- regional habitat data
CC resiliency, connectivity, etc.
Information on habitat, condition and trends, etc.
All programs can use for proposals, competitive advantage- use support of habitat and broader suite of species with more information and support from broader constituency
NE- Regional Best Practices- lexicon Elements 1-8 www.rcngrants.org synthesis of 50 RCN projects
How it can be used by Partners
Recognize: Too much for Agency to do alone!
Partners have already been filling the gaps/roles that the agency couldn’t provide. Strengthen those partnerships!
Include them and their common programs- development and
implementation- gives them credibility and visibility. RI Liaison to towns partnership.
They offer their valuable strengths- they can do/lobby more and enhance outreach to their broader constituency- give them info they need for mutual benefit- win-win!
They have to write plans too: e.g. AL TNC and other state agencies want to develop joint plan- use SWAP for theirs. Incorporate each others’ plans for mutual support and visibility.
More Traction Together
States help states- coordination - e.g. Northeast e.g.- Monthly calls, newsletter and website, synthesis, lexicon- consistency and regional context 50 RCNs
Federal agency support incorporating them into their plans/programs
NRCS ranking criteria, NWRs CCPs, USFS Plans, State Forest Plans- incorporate the Plan Actions
AFWA guidance, coordination- more?
All PLANS add the action about State Wildlife Conservation Agency transformation for increased capacity and resources?