Establishing Long-term Stewardship at Habitat Restoration Sites in a Multi-Partner Environment
Presentation Abstract
Providing adequate funding and capacity to address the long-term stewardship needs of restoration projects begs the question of how the stewardship function is organized among all the entities involved in a restoration project. Restoration partners can and often do include a wide variety of organizations including agencies, tribes, businesses and non-profit organizations. The first step is to develop and confirm shared goals among the partners for what ecological services the restored habitat is expected to perform and for what duration. Partners then need to designate roles and responsibilities, and if appropriate seek the support of additional organizations with expertise or abilities in such areas as site maintenance, volunteer management, contingency planning and long-term financial investment of a stewardship fund. Although costs are easiest to estimate after all these elements are in place and the habitat project is built, the most ideal scenario is to have acquired the necessary funds for long-term stewardship in advance of project construction, so a portion of this presentation is devoted to ways of estimating costs pro forma.
Session Title
Marine Ecosystem Restoration in the Urban Environment
Conference Track
Protection, Remediation, and Restoration
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2016 : Vancouver, B.C.)
Document Type
Event
Location
2016SSEC
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
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Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Environmental management--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)--Planning; Restoration monitoring (Ecology)--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)--Costs
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
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Type
Text
Language
English
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Establishing Long-term Stewardship at Habitat Restoration Sites in a Multi-Partner Environment
2016SSEC
Providing adequate funding and capacity to address the long-term stewardship needs of restoration projects begs the question of how the stewardship function is organized among all the entities involved in a restoration project. Restoration partners can and often do include a wide variety of organizations including agencies, tribes, businesses and non-profit organizations. The first step is to develop and confirm shared goals among the partners for what ecological services the restored habitat is expected to perform and for what duration. Partners then need to designate roles and responsibilities, and if appropriate seek the support of additional organizations with expertise or abilities in such areas as site maintenance, volunteer management, contingency planning and long-term financial investment of a stewardship fund. Although costs are easiest to estimate after all these elements are in place and the habitat project is built, the most ideal scenario is to have acquired the necessary funds for long-term stewardship in advance of project construction, so a portion of this presentation is devoted to ways of estimating costs pro forma.
