Overview of SFR C

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Overview of SFR CI,Other Roundtable Efforts,
and Linkages to SRR

Alison Hill Reno NV Roundtable for Sustainable
Rangelands Jul 23-26, 2001
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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.

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Bringing It Together
Sustainable Resource Management
Sound Communities
Healthy Ecosystems
Strong Economy
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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

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• We lack a unifying measurement framework that
  crosses ownerships integrating social, economic,
  and ecological indices of sustainability suitable
  for collaborative processes.

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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 worlds rangelands

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How did RSF come into existence?

• March 1998 letter to Council on Environmental
  Quality and OMB on implementing the Presidents
  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, AFPA, National
  Audubon Society, Society of American Foresters,
  and WWF

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1998 Letter

• National data is inadequate
• Montreal Process CI will provide a framework for
  assessing SFM
• Multiple agency commitment is necessary
• Stakeholder participation is necessary for data
  collection
• Unique position to provide leadership

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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 multi-stakeholder meeting
  (July 1998) to discuss sustainable resource
  management in the US
• Gave six organizations a chance to share their
  interests in using CI as a unifying framework
  and for the Ag and Interior Secretaries,
  Undersecretary of Energy, and CEQ to share their
  perspectives

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Conclusion ofMulti-stakeholder Meeting

• Multi-stakeholder meeting meeting included 52
  representatives from 32 government and
  non-government organizations. Attendees share
  responsibilities for the Nations 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 1st 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

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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 Nations
  forests.
• Phil Janik assigned the lead for the FS
• Participants represent nearly 100 organizations

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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.

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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 CI.          A
process for helping the Federal agencies develop
a national report by 2003 for the Montreal
Process on the state of the Nations forests and
progress towards sustainable forest management in
the United States (U.S.).
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDINGAMONG FEDERAL
AGENCIES RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA RELATED TO THE
CRITERIA AND INDICATORSFOR SUSTAINABLE FOREST
MANAGEMENTIN THE UNITED STATES01-SU-11130144-010
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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

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Corporate Protocols, Standards, Data Bases
Common criteria indicator indices of
Sustainable resource management
Comparable and compatible data
Collaborative processes