A Fish Habitat Partnership

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• A Fish Habitat Partnership
• www.easternbrooktrout.org

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Organizing History

• AFS Southern Division Trout Committee
• Initial Meeting at NCTC
• Formation of a Steering Committee and Standing
  Committees
• Multistate Conservation Grant

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Formalizing the Partnership

• Adopting a management structure
• Developing an MOU
• Recruiting MOU signatories

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Recognition by the NFH Board

• Meeting the Fish Habitat Partnership Guidelines
• Interaction with the NFH Board and its staff

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Adapting to our Challenges

• EBTJV Coordinator
• Regional work groups
• New Standing Committees

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Strategic Planning

• The foundation a rangewide status assessment
• Adopting a vision
• Developing Principle Goals Key Priorities

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Conservation Strategies

• Three levels of scale
• Monitoring
• Data management
• Research
• Adaptive management

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Other Principal Goals

• Encouraging partnerships
• Building public awareness
• Developing sustainable support