Partnerships to Achieve Conservation Goals and Sustain Training The benefits of partnerships Characteristics of successful partnerships Types of partnerships Buffering umbrella: minimizing encroachment and conflict, sustaining trainingArmy Compatible Use Buffer (ACUB) Program Examples of conservation partnerships Box 6.2: PARC partnership success stories Box 6.3: Air Force Wildland Fire Branch (AFWFB): Interagency coordination and partnership to manage wildland fire threats Box 6.4: Leveraging university support for rare species of the New Jersey Pinelands (from Powledge 2008) Literature Cited