I would just add that part of the role that government can play is to help facilitate the ability of all those players to come together as often as possible.
I mean, to some degree your anxiety about the delay and the lengthening of the process can be somewhat mitigated by a deadline, but, more importantly, if the players are all at the table and talking to each other, then it doesn't become solely the responsibility of the government to try to figure out what to do: we all come together at a table and try to figure that out together.
I think those are often the ways that we've been most successful at doing conservation. One shouldn't limit that to outside the government realm.