Cooperative Policy Assessments Private Tideland Conservation

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• Cooperative Policy Assessments Private Tideland
  Conservation
• Coastal States Organization
• 36th Annual Membership Meeting
• September 25, 2006
• Jay Udelhoven, Sr. Policy Advisor
• The Nature Conservancy Global Marine Initiative

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Overview

• Context
• Results of Assessments
• Relationship to CZM Programs Reauthorization
• Relationship to OCS Activities
• Next Steps Do They Involve You?

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Context

• What are we talking about?
• The potential role of NGOs in conserving coastal
  and ocean lands and resources

• Beyond
• Advocacy
• Watchdogs
• Policy-making
• Education

• To
• In-water stewards
• Owners
• Govt. Partners

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Context
Famous Quote
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there
is no hope for it.

• Albert Einstein

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Context

• Starbucks?

• The Conservancy
• Were BIGGER
• 4 billion in assets
• 1 billion annual revenues
• 30 countries 50 states
• 3,500 employees
• 8 million acres in U.S.
• 120 million acres Worldwide
• 100 coastal marine projects

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Context

• The Conservancy
• Six years of work

• 2 nationwide assessments
• 4 ownership projects
• 3 leasing projects
• 8 policy assessments

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Context

• The Conservancy
• Six years of work
• 10-year goal

• 10 in 10 years (2015)

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Context

• The Conservancy
• Six years of work
• 10-year goal
• External engagement

• Local, State, Federal, International Govt.
  Partners
• Other NGOs

• WWF, CI, Audubon
• Land Trusts

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Context

• The Conservancy
• Six years of work
• 10-year goal
• External engagement
• To what end?

• Management of coastal and ocean lands and
  resources achieves a balance of human uses,
  defined by sustainability of biodiversity, public
  access recreation, natural resource extraction,
  commerce, and navigation.

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Context

• The Conservancy
• Six years of work
• 10-year goal
• External engagement
• To what end?
• Pilot policy assessments

• Massachusetts Oregon
• TNC, NOAA-CSC, RWU, CSO
• State and Local Agencies
• Assess develop spatial databases
• Assess possibility of private ownership leasing

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• 1.6 M acres tidelands
• 86 K acres of intertidal lands
• 1.5 M acres of subtidal lands
• 75 of shoreline privately owned
• 20 K Ch. 91 licenses
• 348 Ch 130 licenses (980 acres)

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1 M acres tidelands 11,800 acres public
intertidal estuaries 5,500 acres private
intertidal estuaries
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Results

• Massachusetts
• Acquire fee or less-than fee title to privately
  owned intertidal lands (Audubon does this now)
• Commonwealth license (Ch. 91) could be used on
  Commonwealth-owned intertidal and subtidal lands
• Aquaculture license likely not available for
  conservation use at this time
• A pilot project likely needed to work through
  process details

• Oregon
• Acquire fee or less-than fee title to privately
  owned intertidal (and subtidal?) lands
• State waterway lease could be used on state-owned
  intertidal and subtidal lands
• Aquaculture lease not ideal for conservation use
• Leases being contemplated now

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Great South Bay Buying to Restore

• Own 13,000 acres
• Co-manage
• 500,000 clams placed

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Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary Ownership

• Own 1,000 acres
• Uplands and tidelands
• Public facilities education

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Richardsons Bay Leasing a Sanctuary

• 900 acres
• 2nd, 50-year lease
• Solid community foundation

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Sarasota Bay Leasing an Island

• 10 acres
• 50-year lease
• Part of a larger sanctuary

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Woodard Bay Testing a Lease

• 10 acres
• 10-year Lease
• Cultch spat placement
• for Olympia Oyster
• enhancement

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Relationship to CZMA others

• Do state coastal and ocean resource management
  agencies need
• ?
• Expertise ?
• Staff Resources ?
• Site-Specific Focus ?
• Outreach ?
• Allies ?

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Relationship to CZMA others

• Coastal States Organization Annual Meetings
• Coastal Zone Management Conferences
• GeoTools Conference
• International Submerged Lands Management
  Conferences
• Land Trust Rallies
• Restore America's Estuaries Conference
• Society for Conservation Biology Conferences
• Others?

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Relationship to CZMA

• Protection and restoration of important
  biological sites are critical, but to succeed at
  scale and over the long-term, we must move to
• Integration of Proprietary Interests
• Improved Governance
• Ecosystem-based Management
• Zoning
• Land-Sea Threats Integration
• Ecoregional Assessments
• Conservation Area Plans

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Relationship to OCS/EEZ activities

• hh

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Next Steps
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Next Steps

• How can we work together?
• Policy assessments
• Data assessments development
• In-water restoration
• Long-term management and protection
• Planning
• What are the intersects, immediate and long-term?
• Dinner??