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EXHIBIT A <br /> Task 1: Landowner and ALOSC Communication <br /> The Team will contact select local, rural landowners and key groups representing <br /> rural lands (e.g., (e.g., ranchers attending the Conservation Easement workshops <br /> funded by the ALOSC). These contacts are not intended to be exhaustive, but <br /> instead to have conversations about the approach we are taking and the kinds of <br /> outcomes we expect. In a workshop setting, we will ask rural landowner interests <br /> about methods they have available to them (e.g., NRCS's Environmental Quality <br /> Incentives Program) and their ideas about how to make an effective payment for <br /> wildlife ecosystem services method for ALOSC. <br /> Deliverable: Summary notes from a workshop with rural landowner interests; <br /> Identification of potential fatal flaws and good ways forward. <br /> Task 2: Method Development <br /> The Team will develop the scientific, legislative and logistical basis for a PES <br /> approach for ALOSC. This will include literature searches (both peer-reviewed <br /> and technical literature), developing a model approach, describing payment <br /> mechanisms, and differentiating between initial valuation and long-term <br /> maintenance costs. The model approach will be developed in spreadsheet and <br /> GIS formats so that it can be tested with example calculations. Careful notation <br /> will be made of the decisions made during development to help with review and <br /> reporting. <br /> Deliverables: Draft method for Payment for Wildlife Ecosystem Services; Draft <br /> technical memo describing basis for approach and approach itself <br /> Task 3: Method Vetting and Confirmation <br /> The Team will present the method to the ALOSC and other stakeholders at one <br /> ALOSC meeting and one workshop with landowner-stakeholders. The purpose <br /> of the meeting will be to get feedback on both the basis and the outputs of the <br /> method. A final model method will be developed following this feedback and <br /> presented to the ALOSC at the end of Phase I. <br /> Deliverables: Presentation to the ALOSC and 1 workshop; collection of <br /> feedback; final model and method and technical memo. <br /> 4 <br />