All decisions affecting your community are best made by you, your fellow citizens and locally elected officials.  This is why we come directly to your community to help guide and assist you in developing strategies to assert the local position during the federal and state planning processes.

Local Outreach Services

Generally, as follow up to a coordination training seminar, we can work with the local governments that have committed or expressed a strong interest in using the coordination process.  There are two basic follow-up services that we provide:

1.         General Coordination Support:

We can provide basic guidance to help you initiate the process, which includes review and editing of resolutions, letters and plans as well as helping you develop a strategy for your specific issues. An annual fee of $1500 is charged to the local governments to help support our services.  We can also provide this service at an hourly fee.

2.         In-Depth Coordination Implementation:

Every year we select a limited number of issues to work more directly on that are critical to the fulfillment of our mission: protecting property rights.  In these cases we are more hands-on, including the drafting of letters to the agencies, short and long-term strategy development and execution, preparation of elected officials, experts and staff for coordination meetings, and participating in the agency meetings to help advocate the local position.

This is the manner in which we worked which resulted in two of our greatest victories; (1) stopping the Trans-Texas Corridor and, (2) defeating the endangered listing of the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard.

Normally, a local landowner’s organization or the local government we are helping will pay a monthly fee.  An hourly fee can also be arranged for this level of support.

We provide as little or as much support as is needed for your local government to be successful in the coordination process with the agencies.  Our ultimate goal is to train your community so that it can develop future strategies for issues as they arise with limited help from us well into the future.

Issues

Examples of some of the issues we have helped communities address are:

• Endangered Species Listings and Management
• Habitat Conservation Plans
• Conservation Easement Programs
• Travel Management Plans
• Wilderness Areas
• Resource Management Plan Revisions
• Forest Plan Revisions
• Power Line Construction
• Super Transportation Corridors
• High Speed Rail
• Superfund Sites

For more information call our office at 512-365-2699 or email us at asl@americanstewards.us.