Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area

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United States Department of the Interior Bureau
of Land Management
Keys to Preserving your Trail Right-of-Way and
the Surrounding Landscape
Duluth Minnesota
7-11 September 2007
Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and
Protection Area
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The Keys

• Good Planning
• Effective Land Conservation Strategies
• Partnerships

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Considerations when Acquiring Land Easements

• Early Identification of Needs
• Realistic Plans consistent w/ Management Goals
  and Funding
• Be Opportunistic!
• Coordinate with Partners
• Understand the Needs of the Public while
  Respecting the Rights of Private landowners.

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Access for Recreation !
Pacific Crest Trail
Mt. Hood National Forest
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Preserve Open Space
Ute Mountain
Rio Grande National Wild and Scenic River
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Consider Other Resources That May Benefit From
Your Project
Wildlife
Riparian
Cultural
Fisheries
Historic
Botanic
Wetlands
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Building a Willing Seller Data Base
Water Rights
Mineral Rights
Telephone
Relocation
Estate
Method
Address
Willing Seller
May be "FOIA-able"
Acreage
Owner
Legal Description
Resource Values
Fax
Third Party
Listing Agent
Improvements
Estimate of Value
Last Contact
Permission to Enter
Fee/Easement
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Planning / Acquisition Cycle
Willing Seller
Community Support
Sensitivity to Local Issues
Completion of Plan or Plan Amendment Defining Acqu
isition/Retention Areas
Local Government Support
Sequence of/ Type of Acquisition
Acknowledge Congressional Support
Congressional Delegation Support
Publicize Accomplishments
Third Party Support
Field Proposal and Agency Selection of National
Priorities
Presidents Budget/ Appropriation
Negotiation Acceptance of Offer Closing
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Effective Land Conservation Strategies
Acquisition Methods
Purchase
Donation
Exchange
Interests Acquired
Fee
Access Conservation Easements
BLMs acquisition program targets willing
landowners. Phased over time with third party
assistance.
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Continental Divide
National Scenic Trail
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Be Opportunistic!

• Promote landownership adjustments that resolve
  needed access
• Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, Wyoming
  New Mexico
• Donation of Access Rights over nearly 19 miles of
  private property
• LWCF Purchase of Trail Easements over 7.5 miles
  of State and private property (pending)
• Land Exchange (New Mexico)

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Sandy River/Oregon National Historic Trail
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Resource Values

• Significant Resources
• Federal State Scenic Waterways
• National Historic Trail
• Fisheries
• Water Quality
• Abundant Recreation Opportunities (land and water
  based)
• Opportunity to Restore Functioning Ecology of the
  Sandy River
• Proximity to Portland

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Scenic Views
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Provide Interpretation of Existing National
Trails Sites
Preserve and Expand Trails and Recreational
Access Opportunities
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Restoration Opportunities

• Riparian Areas and Buffers
• Harvested Land
• Invasive Species
• Marmot Dam Removal

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Marmot Dam

• Marmot Dam (BLM land)
• Dam 47 feet high,
• 345 feet long
• Fish ladder
• Fish holding facility
• Fish sorting facility
• Canal with traveling fish
• screen and return
• Foot bridge

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Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
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Partnerships
Before and After the "deal"
San Joaquin River (Patterson Bend)/
Squaw Leap Management Area
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Partnerships

• Non-Profit vs For-Profit / Federal vs
  State vs Local

• Shop around. The agency and partner should have
  compatible goals and objectives

• Communicationinsist everyone be kept in the
  loop

• Levels of Participation

Administrative and Congressional Lobbying
Organizes local support
Lobbies
- Congressional delegation
- House/Senate Congressional Committee
Chair/Members/Staff
- Administration
Bureau of Land Management
Department of the Interior
Council on Environmental Quality
Office of Management and Budget
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Partnerships

• Local politics vs national politics

Contact with Congressional delegations local
vs national office

• Influential Congressional Committees

Chair
Members
Staff

• Opportunity for agency to educate Congressional
  staff and Members

• Build support for projects within multiple
  Congressional Districts within the same State
  and/or within adjacent States

Headwaters Forest
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Partnerships
Direct Transactional Involvement
Provides financial commitment on behalf of
Government partner
- Option
- Purchase for future resale to Government partner
- Purchase for future phased resale to Government
partner
- Purchase for use in an agency exchange

• Bargain sale benefits can be passed to
  Government partner

Volunteer Services - Facility Development
Stewardship
Provides valuable leverage that extends limited
government resources
- Focus point for individual citizen involvement
- Provides in-kind match to attract other
grants and donations
- Supplements limited or declining staff and
funding
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Nonprofits/Third Parties - National

• American Land Conservancy

• Defenders of Wildlife

• National Audubon Society

• The Archeological Conservancy

• The Conservation Fund

• The Nature Conservancy

• The Trust for Public Land

• The Wilderness Land Trust

• The Wilderness Society

• Western Rivers Conservancy

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Nonprofits/Third Parties - Regional

• American Farmland Trust

• Continental Divide Trail Alliance

• Ducks Unlimited

• Foundation for North American Wild Sheep

• Greater Yellowstone Coalition

• Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation

• Save-the-Redwoods League

• Teton Regional Land Trust

• The Wildlands Conservancy

• Trout Unlimited

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Nonprofits/Third Parties - Local

• City of Palm Springs

• Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy

• Colorado Department of Natural Resources

• Dickinson State University

• Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association

• Multnomah County

• Oregon Youth Conservation Corps

• Pheasants Forever

• San Diego Association of Governments

• Shoshone-Bannock Tribe

• Taos Land Trust

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Understand the Needs of the Public
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While Respecting the Rights of Private Landowners
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Why is a project successful?

• Quality Resources

• Good Planning

• Effective Land Conservation Strategies

• Partnerships

• Passion

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Questions ?
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail
Upper Missouri National Wild and Scenic River
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument
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Few of us can hope to leave a poem or a work of
art to posterity but working together or apart,
we can yet save meadows, marshes, strips of
seashore, and stream valleys as a green legacy
for the centuries.
Stewart Udall Secretary of
the Interior (1961-1969)