Transcript Presentation Guidelines

Overview of SFR C&I,
Other Roundtable
Efforts, and
Linkages to SRR
Alison Hill
Reno NV
Roundtable for Sustainable Rangelands
Jul 23-26, 2001
Goal
Help participants understand the
scope, inter-relationships and
distinctions of the 3 efforts
underway (Forests, Minerals, and
Rangelands), and how and when
they will come together in the
2003 Federal Land Status Report.
Bringing It Together
Sound
Communities
Sustainable
Resource
Management
Strong Economy
Healthy
Ecosystems
The complex work environment of U.S.
land managers:
– Communication: lack common data
standards and collection protocols
between neighboring land managers
– Consensus: little public consensus on
how to frame public dialogue regarding
sustainable resource mgt
– Analysis: weak in integrating
environmental, economic and social issues
at multiple scales
– Harmonized plans: difficulty in developing
common goals and shared responsibilities
– Funds: difficulty focusing scarce funds to
highest priority areas
We lack a unifying
measurement framework that
crosses ownerships integrating
social, economic, and
ecological indices of
sustainability suitable for
collaborative processes.
Montreal Process
• Began in 1994 in Geneva
• Resulted in the signing of the Santiago
Declaration in 1995
• Confirmed the voluntary commitment of
12 participating countries representing:
• a wide range in natural/social
conditions
• ~ 90 % of the world's
temperate/boreal forests
• ~about 60% of the world’s
rangelands
How did RSF come into
existence?
• March 1998 letter to Council on
Environmental Quality and OMB on
implementing the President’s
commitment to sustainable
management of forests by 2000
through the use of Montreal Process
Criteria and Indicators
• From National Association of State
Foresters, Global Forest Policy Project,
AF&PA, National Audubon Society,
Society of American Foresters, and
WWF
1998 Letter
• National data is inadequate
• Montreal Process C&I will provide a
framework for assessing SFM
• Multiple agency commitment is
necessary
• Stakeholder participation is
necessary for data collection
• Unique position to provide
leadership
Multi-stakeholder Meeting to
Respond to Letter
• In response to the Presidential direction
and the letter from the six organization,
Chief Mike Dombeck convened a multistakeholder meeting (July 1998) to
discuss sustainable resource
management in the US
• Gave six organizations a chance to share
their interests in using C&I as a unifying
framework and for the Ag and Interior
Secretaries, Undersecretary of Energy,
and CEQ to share their perspectives
Conclusion of
Multi-stakeholder Meeting
• Multi-stakeholder meeting meeting
included 52 representatives from 32
government and non-government
organizations. Attendees share
responsibilities for the Nation’s 737
million acres of forest.
• Positive conclusion voicing a collective
sense that a multi-stakeholder dialogue
needed to continue and the federal
agencies needed to work collaboratively
to support sustainable resource
management
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Convening of
Roundtable
and its Purpose
• 1st roundtable convened on Sep 10 1998
• Charter states that the Roundtable is to
serve as a forum to share information and
perspective that will enable better
decision making in the US regarding
sustainable forest.
• Participation is voluntary and inclusive
• Shared leadership and responsibility are
the overriding purposes
Leading the effort and
Participants
• FS serves as the lead Federal Ageny,
given its lead role within the Federal
government for forest issues and the
breadth of its responsibilities related to
all the Nation’s forests.
• Phil Janik assigned the lead for the FS
• Participants represent nearly 100
organizations
Dialogue with Partners
Roundtable Agreement
Mutually pledged to work together to develop a
Memorandum of Understanding to define the
responsibilities of cooperating agencies and partners
to:
• Participate in scientific teams including
examining the criteria and indicators to establish a
common list of national level, ecological, social and
economic measures and protocols.
• Identify current sources of information, seek to
establish a collaborative national inventory platform
from which to gather data, and collect and report on
indicators specific to agency mission.
• Contribute to the development of a National
Report on Sustainable Forest Management by 2003.
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
AMONG FEDERAL AGENCIES RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA
RELATED TO THE CRITERIA AND INDICATORS
FOR SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
IN THE UNITED STATES
01-SU-11130144-010
This MOU establishes a mechanism for cooperation
among Federal agencies having data responsibilities
pertinent to the sustainable forest management goal
announced in Presidential Decision Directive NSC-16 and
endorsed in the Santiago Declaration. See Attachment 2. The
MOU provides:
A common interagency forum for Federal
coordination to resolve issues integral to collecting,
monitoring, analyzing, reporting, and making data
available on an ongoing basis related to the C&I.
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A process for helping the Federal agencies
develop a national report by 2003 for the Montreal
Process on the state of the Nation’s forests and
progress towards sustainable forest management in
the United States (U.S.).
SRR Related Efforts
• Sustainable Roundtables
– Forests
– Minerals
– Rangelands
– Water(new)
• Development of Standards
– National Vegetation Classification System and the
Federal Geographic Data Committee Standards
• Reporting
– Heinz Center Report
– 2003 National Report
Corporate Protocols, Standards, Data Bases
Common criteria &
indicator indices of
Sustainable resource
management