Aligning Northwest Herp Conservation Issues, Actions, and Funding: What's broken? How do we fix it? Where's the money?

Jeff Holmes

Co-chair Southeastern Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

Conservation Southeast, Inc.

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ABSTRACT

HOLMES, JEFF1*, PRIYA NANJAPPA-MITCHELL2, and ERNIE GARCIA3
1Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC), co-chair, Southeastern PARC, and Conservation Southeast, Inc., conservationsoutheast@comcast.net; 2PARC State Agencies Coordinator, Gurnee, IL; 3PARC Federal Agencies Coordinator, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Weaverville, CA.

Aligning Northwest Herp Conservation Issues, Actions, and Funding: What's broken? How do we fix it? Where's the money?

Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC) has developed a successful, multi-entity adaptive management model and organizational structure. PARC is deploying this model throughout its regional working groups. The model emphasizes communication and complementarity between technical working groups. This model is designed to optimize applied conservation biology and minimize resource expenditures that do not meaningfully impact wild populations and their habitats. In this model, partners affiliate themselves with one or more technical working groups based on their individual skills and interests. The model then provides a vehicle for the coordinated flow of knowledge, funding, and other resources between "Information Gathering" working groups (Research, Inventory/Monitoring) and "Implementation" working groups (Management, Education/Outreach, Policy/Trade) in order to maximize the net conservation impact of every penny and every drop of sweat.