disintegration of the McKinney Flats project. In all three cases, absence of long-term, stable funding jeopardize monitoring and experimental projects. Despite each case’s missing elements of CAM (or moments of missing elements), the groups of people working in the Sonoita Valley and the Malpai Borderlands have persevered and continued their CAM-like efforts for several years. I have identified three categories which explain how the cases have been able to withstand the length of time and dynamic nature of a CAM process and overcome the absence of certain CAM elements: 1) specific tools have been implemented to address and overcome missing elements of CAM, 2) effective design and implementation of CAM elements has created momentum to sustain the efforts, and 3) additional factors have enabled long-term continuation of these projects. For the remainder of this chapter, I discuss these three ideas in more detail.
Question 3: What promotes or enables CAM to continue over time? Specific tools or mechanisms have helped the groups in this study address problems with their processes. For example, the Las Cienegas stakeholder group was struggling with their collaboration at their biological planning meetings, tension was developing between stakeholders, and, rather than working together, there was a tendency to think in a very silo-ed manner (Kay 2012). By bringing in a professional mediator, the group greatly improved their process by providing a more open forum for discussing concerns and working together (Kay 2012). When Malpai ranchers, agency representatives and scientists were butting heads about endangered species concerns and planning prescribed fires, a joint fact-finding process was used as a means to break through the impasse. With the Lesser Long-nosed Bat and agave situation, expert scientists talked to each other and the group and made a consensus recommendation about
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