1. A Fish Habitat Partnership www.easternbrooktrout.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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