Future Plans

1
Future Plans Milestones of the Sustainable
Rangelands Roundtable

• Tom Bartlett
• And
• John Mitchell

2
Future SRR Meetings

• Review and critique indicators.
• Rotating criterion group review.
• Joint meetings of criterion groups.
• Writing summaries of indicators.
• Identify reviewers for indicator sets.
• Next several meetings Expansion and
  Contraction Phase Lou Romero

3
Future SRR Meetings

• 2003 Meetings
• Drafting and revising the SRR report.
• ESA Symposium Workshop
• August 4, 2002
• Tucson Arizona

4
Overlaps and Gaps

• Some indicators identified by more than one
  criterion group.
• Some indicators have not been included.
• Review and critique indicators.

5
Working with Other Roundtables

• Sustainable Natural Resources Roundtable
  Coordination Network (SNRRCN)
• Collaboration on shared issues and coordination
  of common tasks.
• More efficient progress, while minimizing
  inconsistencies.

6
Issues

• The question of scale.
• Definition of rangeland in relation to forests.
• Protocol for evaluating indicators.
• Protocol for identifying data sets and their
  usefulness.

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Issues

• Do indicators relate to rangeland sustainability?

8
Outreach

• Inform rangeland sustainability stakeholders of
  SRR efforts.
• SRM Symposium.
• White papers.
• Press releases.
• SRR Website.
• ESA Workshop in August.

9
SRR Reports

• Proceedings of SRM Symposium.
• Criteria and Indicators for Rangeland
  Sustainability report of SRR.
• Status of indicators.
• Relevance of indicators.
• Comparable to First Approximation Report of RSF.
• Used in other reports.

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The Future

• Need to monitor and assess the criteria and
  indicators that SRR recommends.
• SRR has evolved in an independent fashion from
  other efforts.
• We have a better idea of what we are about than
  in April of 2001, but we are uncertain as to the
  final product.

11
The Future

• Phil Janik, CoChair of RSF
• Sustainability is not a destination, but a
  journey no deadlines are set, but work
  progresses towards a goal over time.
• This certainly applies to the Sustainable
  Rangelands Roundtable.

12
Reminder

• Please return your questionnaire as you leave the
  session.