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Todd Gartner, Senior Associate

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Josh Donlan, Director

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Innovation in Pre-listing Species Conservation:

Conservation Banking for Candidate Species

Switzer Network - July 18, 2012

Agenda

•Why a Market-Based Approach?

•Benefits of Pre-Listing Conservation

•Supply, Demand & Infrastructure

•Challenges & Accomplishments

•Q&A

Source: The Gymnosperm Database

World Resources Institute

Future of US Forests Rests in the Hands

of Private Landowners

Source: American Forest Foundation


Remembering Aldo Leopold

“Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.”

“Emerging markets….will provide landowners with expanded economic incentive to maintain and restore our forests”

Source: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center Source: US Department of Agriculture


Payments for Nature’s Benefits… Arrangements for placing economic value on natural assets normally “outside the market”

Environmental services not properly valued systems become degraded;

fragmentation, erosion

Forests becoming recognized as an asset (monetarily);

provide water, recreation, BioD,

Financial systems that enable people who produce products and services to be compensated by those who benefit

Source: Spring Creek Film


• Demand:

created by law/regulation

business and economic case

• Supply:

private lands

protected areas

• Market infrastructure:

stakeholder engagement (buyers, sellers, brokers/aggregators, regulators)

rules & standards: protocols for measuring, monitoring, verification (clear science)

institutions (exchange or meeting place, registry)

• Assurances that cover risks: quality, permanence, potential for reversal

• Accessible information for stakeholders

PES Based Approach – Framework Elements


Cost Share

Wetland restoration and

Water quality trading

Sustainable

forestry/agriculture

Imagine…

The portfolio approach to

forest management:

multiple income streams

Species recovery

•Source: Adapted from the Willamette Partnership

Conservation easement

Carbon sequestration

Recreation

leases


Number of Banks 111 Banks

Species Credit

Types 88 Types

Habitat Credit

Types 51 Types

States with Banks 11 States

Land Area

Protected 108,700 Acres

Average Credit

Price $31,683

Payments for

Conservation

Banking per

Annum (2009)

$200 Million

Source: SpeciesBanking.com


Agenda

•Market-Based Approach




•Q&A



5 benefits to pre-listing conservation program

• Incentives to act early - reduce cost and

difficulty

• Improved habitat management, critical but

not required for non-federal landowners

• Outcomes evaluated prior to impacts

occurring

• Reduce and/or preclude need to list

• Mobilize new resources for conservation

on private lands


Habitat Crediting for the Gopher Tortoise and

Longleaf Ecosystem

Source: US Fish and Wildlife Service

Infrastructure

Source: University of Georgia

Demand Supply


Stakeholder Engagement - Advisory Committee

Mark Bailey - Conservation Southeast, Inc.

David Blalock - Army Region 4

Roger Clay - Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Matt Elliott – Georgia Department of Natural Resources

Susan Gibson – Military Services

Kent Gilges – Conservation Forestry, LLC

Shauna Ginger – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Rick Gooch - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Craig Guyer – Auburn University

Dot Harris - Georgia NRCS

Wade Harrison - The Nature Conservancy

Michael Jennings – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

John Jensen - Georgia Department of Natural Resources

Rhett Johnson - Longleaf Alliance

Gina LaRocco - Defenders of Wildlife

NRCS/ USDA Office of Environmental Markets

Neil Letson - Alabama Forestry Commission

John McGuire - Westervelt Ecological Services

Jim McHugh - Alabama Wildlife & Freshwater Fisheries

Deblyn Mead - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Steve Musser - Alabama NRCS

Tom Ostertag - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Will Price – Pinchot Institute for Conservation

James Remuzzi – Sustainable Solutions, LLC

Joanna Silver – Markit

Kevin Thames – U.S. Army

Aaron Valenta– U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service


Weighted Acres

• Ecological Attributes

Canopy composition and structure

Understory quality

Invasive control

• Landscape Context

Connectivity

Adjacent land use and protection

Proximity to impact and mitigation sites

Population

Presence and abundance of species

Currency: Gopher Tortoise Habitat Credits


Supply - Landowner Eligibility

•Priority location

•Conservation easement

•Certified management plan

consistent with program requirements

•Non-wasting endowment to cover

management costs for the long-term

•Minimum 200 acres

(aggregation encouraged)

Source: American Forest Foundation


Landowner Preference – Choice Model Survey

Source: Sorice, Donlan and Gartner 2011


Voluntary

• Payments • Green PR

• Philanthropy

• Outcome based investment

• Habitat neutral

• Business case

Pre-compliance

• Endangered Species Act • Preclude Listing

• Regulatory Predictability

• Increases efficiency of permitting process

• May be cheaper

• Change trajectory

• Proactive

Buyers/Demand - Two Credit Models


Layered Values

Easements focus on what landowner can’t do;

Ecosystem credits on what they can…

Source: US Army, USDA NRCS


Transactional Infrastructure

Source: Gartner and Donlan 2012


Credit Tracking and Accounting System:

Validate Eligibility

Calculate

Verify

Register

Track

Source: Willamette Partnership, Counting on the Environment; Markit Environmental Registry


Agenda

•Market-Based Approach




•Q&A



Challenges

• Species vs. Habitat

• Interagency Coordination

• Proactive Spending

• Pilot vs. Policy

• Precision vs. Practicality


Regulatory and Policy Tools

Source: Defenders of Wildlife


"Twelve Big Ideas for 2012"

Advance Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking (ANPR)

Accomplishments and Way Forward


Funders and Friends


Questions and Discussion

Source: Jon Gould , Munford, American Forest Foundation

• Todd Gartner, Senior Associate

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• Josh Donlan, Director

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