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Engaging Agricultural Landowners in Fish Habitat Restoration on Private Land in the Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon: Lessons from a “Tough” Case

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  • The conservation community has long recognized the critical role that agricultural landowners play in efforts to improve fish and wildlife habitat in order to recover threatened and endangered species. In many rural areas dominated by agricultural working landscapes, government agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) struggle to gain the trust of ranchers and farmers, a prerequisite for successful federally funded habitat restoration projects, and coordinate habitat restoration across property lines. This project aims to identify barriers and pathways to fish habitat restoration on agricultural lands, drawing on theories associated with trust and collaborative conservation in natural resource management settings. Findings draw on interviews with practitioners across the U.S. who have had success engaging private landowners in habitat restoration and a case study of landowner attitudes in the Upper Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border in the western U.S., where two species of suckerfish with cultural importance to the Klamath Tribes are listed under the Endangered Species Act. The project aims to inform USFWS efforts to invest over $100m in restoration funds on private lands. Results from this study have implications for efforts to improve working relationships between agricultural landowners and government agencies and implement a landscape scale approach to fish habitat restoration. Major barriers and pathways to PLC in general included the lack or presence of relationships, shared visions, expertise, and programmatic support. While building and/or repairing trust is integral to all sustainable PLC efforts, special attention to trust repair is needed in “tough” cases – PLC contexts with potent social memory and weak antecedents for collaboration, such as in the case of the UKB. Additionally, findings indicate that affinitive trust building efforts may act as a “doorway” to developing other types of trust in a system. This study also posits that linkages between social memory and social learning can cultivate or re-engage previous collaborative efforts in PLC contexts. To support PLC efforts in tough cases, key recommendations include expanding agency investment in human dimensions training and relationship building efforts, limiting financial and bureaucratic burdens on landowners, increasing coordination among restoration networks, implementing strategies for trust repair, and addressing social memory challenges by facilitating opportunities for social, cultural, and technical learning.
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