A Fish Habitat Partnership

Organizing History  AFS Southern Division Trout Committee  Initial Meeting at NCTC  Formation of a Steering Committee and Standing Committees  Multistate Conservation Grant

Formalizing the Partnership  Adopting a management structure  Developing an MOU  Recruiting MOU signatories

Recognition by the NFH Board  Meeting the Fish Habitat Partnership Guidelines  Interaction with the NFH Board and its staff

Adapting to our Challenges  EBTJV Coordinator  Regional work groups  New Standing Committees

Strategic Planning  The foundation: a rangewide status assessment  Adopting a vision  Developing Principle Goals & Key Priorities

Conservation Strategies  Three levels of scale  Monitoring  Data management  Research  Adaptive management

Other Principal Goals  Encouraging partnerships  Building public awareness  Developing sustainable support