Strategies for accomplishing these goals are:

      
Moving with Clear Direction

Information Transfer is accomplished through having clear direction and functions to improvecommunication.  It allows partners to access the latest data and techniques for specific restoration and recovery actions by linking practitioners and the results of their recovery actions with researchers and other land managers.  Improved communications encourage new partners to join the recovery program.  Informing organizations of the regional significance of potential recovery actions is helpful in gaining their support and implementing actions across a larger landscape, which ultimately improves the chances of the species to recover.  Planned information transfer activities include:  

Well Coordinated Team doing Recovery Work

Linking Entities improves coordination between partners and makes them team players in recovery actions. Recovery projects can be carried out in a more unified and consistent manner, even across a regional landscape.  A larger well coordinated working group can cover gaps in a regional recovery program and take advantage of the different strengths of entities participating in the partnership.  Planned linkages include:

• The Statement of Unity
• The Candidate Conservation Agreement

                                 Taking the Long View                                                  Providing Incentives

Providing Incentives often means adequately funding the projects that generate recovery actions. While many entities may agree with the recovery of rare species, many also require specific incentivesto initiate recovery actions. The most obvious incentive is financial resources. Seeking to increase the funding available for recovery actions and working to make existing funding more effective are both important strategies to funding the recovery of rare species. Incentives can also be non-financial and include assisting partners with resources, know-how, and volunteer help. 

Planned incentives include:

• Financial Incentives that fund conservation plans andleverage partnership collaborations.
• Non-financial Incentives like sharing information and resources with partnering entities.

Secondary Goal:

A second important goal for the project is evaluating the various methods we use to facilitate rare species recovery so that the lessons learned can be transferred to other installations facing similar challenges with at risk species.  This will be accomplished by contrasting and evaluating the various activities used to accomplish the three major strategies.   Comparing recovery actions taking place in the field and assessing their benefit to the candidate species of concern is the most direct way to evaluate the success of various methods.

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