The Sonoita Valley Planning
Partnership is an ad hoc, volunteer association of Federal,
State, and local agencies, user groups, organizations, and individuals
with a common interest in the upper Cienega watershed, which includes
the 42,000 acres of public lands within the Las Cienegas National
Conservation Area, Arizona. The goal of the partnership is to perpetuate
naturally functioning ecosystems while preserving rural grasslands
for future generations. Case
Study PDF
The Trout Creek Mountain
Restoration focuses on compatibility between livestock
grazing and critical habitat for listed Lahontan cutthroat
trout within the Trout Creek and Oregon Canyon Mountains, Oregon.
This time sequence shows the dramatic changes along Cottonwood
Creek, V Pasture, looking downstream starting in 1988. Until
1989 this pasture was grazed during the summer every year.
Despite changes in the timing and intensity of grazing, chronic
trespass prevented acceptable levels of riparian improvement.
Enforcement, changes in permittees, and fence repairs since
then have allowed 2 years of actual rest. Note the increased
reproduction in aspen by 2002. View
the graphic in a larger size. | Case
Study PDF
Adaptive Waterfowl Harvest
Management: In 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
implemented an approach known as adaptive harvest management,
in which managers seek to maximize sustainable harvests against
a background of various sources and degrees of uncertainty. Case
Study PDF
Interagency Bison Management
Plan: The National Park Service (NPS), State of Montana,
USDA Forest Service, and the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service developed an adaptive management strategy in 2000 that
allows Montana to maintain its brucellosis-free status and NPS
to maintain a bison population that fluctuates in response to
ecosystem processes. Case
Study PDF
For decades, there has been concern
about the ecological impacts of the operation of Glen Canyon
Dam on downstream resources, particularly the riparian
areas along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona. In
recent years efforts have been made to evaluate and adapt management
actions for resource protection through experiments that are monitored
for their effects in the Grand Canyon. Case
Study PDF
Ponderosa Pine Forest
Restoration: The ponderosa pine and riparian aspen forests
of Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) in northeastern
Washington are in poor health and are not providing wildlife
habitat at their natural potential. Under the Habitat Management
Plan, which was completed in 1999, goals and objectives were
established for the restoration of ponderosa pine forest to support
native forest-dependent wildlife species and reduce hazardous
fuels. Case Study
PDF
The Five Rivers Landscape
Management Project began in 1998 as an attempt to apply
adaptive management at large scales. The project was designed
for 32,000 acres of productive Siuslaw National Forest land in
coastal Oregon. Case
Study PDF
Adaptive
Management in Use 
