Mobile Bay National Estuary Program selected Shafer Consulting to assist with strategic planning, facilitation, and writing for the update to the 5-year Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan. Additional tasks will include cross-walking MBNEP watershed management plans with coastal zone management regulations, assessing vulnerability of program goals to climate changes stressors, organizing a full-day CCMP workshop for 175 stakeholders, and developing a 5-year program finance plan.