CWMTF Stewardship Program Feb15

Stewardship Program

Report

CWMTF Board Retreat

February 15, 2010

Team Members

Penny Adams

Christopher Fipps

Nancy Guthrie

Robin Hammond

Cheryl Johnson

Tom Jones

Sarah King

Richard Rogers

Cherri Smith

Will Summer

Stewardship Topics to be Covered

Endowment

Contracts

Guidelines

Management Fund

Endowment

NC Conservation Easement

Endowment Fund is being established

with State Treasurer’s Office

Contracts

55 individual grant agreement contracts for

closed acquisitions being closed out.

14 new contracts being established with land

trusts for annual monitoring of all properties

from those 55 individual grants.

Future acquisition closings.

Stewardship Guidelines

Baseline Documentation

Report

Standards for

Monitoring Reports

Reserved Rights Policy

Reserved Rights

Requests

Easement Amendments

Enforcement Process

Stewardship Management

Fund

$20,000 for FY 2010/2011

Stewardship Management Fund

$2,500 cap per management activity

Invoices to substantiate cost

Documentation of management issue

Activities Eligible for Funding

Priority for management activities that protect

integrity of conservation easement and/or

protect water quality.

Lower priority for funding for activities that

enhance the conservation values of the

easement area.

ATV trespassing – direct water quality threat

Dumping – direct water quality threat

ATV trespassing – site degradation / emerging water quality threat

Solution - gate installation / access control

Riparian buffer planting – enhancing conservation values / improving WQ

Invasive plant removal – enhancing conservation values

Criteria for Evaluating Proposals for

Management Funds

Type of management activity

Threat to easement area and/or protection of

water quality

Extent of management issue

Additional resources contributed to project

Stewardship Management Fund

Schedule

Announce to land trusts February 2010

Proposals for funds due May 3, 2010

Approvals June 2010

Questions and Comments