Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable

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Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable
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Tenth SRR Meeting

• Fort Myers, Florida
• January 14-16,2003

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SRR Meetings

• Twelve Meetings
• Four meetings in 2001
• Five in 2002
• Three in 2003
• Fort Myers
• Albuquerque, NM March 19-20, 2003
• Washington, DC May 19-23, 2003
• Jackson Hole, WY June 3-4, 2003

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SRR Planning Meeting

• December 17-18 in Phoenix, AZ
• 16 SRR Participants
• Steering Committee
• Criterion Groups
• Purpose
• Results to concentrate on from 2003 to 2005
• Identify commitments to produce outcomes
• Develop action plan to actualize commitments
• Develop action plan to continue evolution of
  indicator work for prioritized topics

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SRR Planning Meeting

• Strategic
• Overview discussions based on long term vision
  and select strategic goals.
• Operational
• Identification of key commitments and decisions
• Tactical
• Tasks, timelines responsibilities into Draft
  Action Plan

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SRR Mission

• The Roundtable will identify indicators of
  sustainability based on social, economic, and
  ecological factors, to provide a framework for
  national assessments of rangelands and rangeland
  use.

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New SRR Mission

• The SRR will promote social, ecological, and
  economic sustainability of rangelands through the
  development and widespread use of the criteria
  and indicators for rangeland assessments, and by
  providing a forum for dialogue on sustainability
  of rangelands.

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SRR Vision for Rangelands

• We envision a future in which rangelands in the
  U.S. provide a desired mix of economic,
  ecological and social benefits to current and
  future generations.

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Vision for the SRR Process

• We envision a future where we have widely
  accepted criteria and indicators for monitoring
  and assessing the economic, social and ecological
  sustainability of rangelands.

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New SRR Vision

• We envision a future in which
• Rangelands in the US provide a desired mix of
  economic, ecological, and social benefits to
  current and future generations
• There are widely accepted and used criteria and
  indicators for monitoring and assessing the
  economic, social, and ecological sustainability
  of rangelands
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Products of SRR

• Symposium and Proceedings at the Feb. 2002 SRM
  Annual Meeting in Kansas City, MO
• Workshop at ESA Meeting in Tucson, AZ in August
  2002
• Symposium/Workshop on Indicators at Feb. 2003 SRM
  Annual Meeting in Casper, Wyoming
• Report on Sustainable Rangelands in Spring, 2003

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SRR Timeline

• Fort Myers Jan. 14-16 First draft of report
  chapters ready for editing.
• SRM Workshop Feb. 3-5
• Feb. 15 Chapters ready for SRR internal review.
• March 1 SRR internal review completed.
  Consider and integrate feedback.

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SRR Timeline

• Albuquerque March 18-19 Revised chapters
  completed. Submit to external reviewers.
• April 11 Receive external reviews and
  incorporate changes.
• Friday, May 2, 2003 Deadline for final
  chapters.

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SRR Timeline

• May 5-9 Create Executive Summary (Briefing
  Document). To printer on May 9.
• May SRR Briefing in Washington, D.C.
• June SRR meeting to transition to new goals.

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Purpose of Tenth SRR Meeting

• Complete draft chapters in preparation for
  internal Intergroup review.
• Finalize report outline, timeline, and writing
  assignments.
• Continue working on data set identification and
  acquisition.

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Tenth SRR Meeting

• Draft Action Plan from Phoenix Tim Reuwsaat
• Draft Communication Plan and Discussion Lori
  Hidinger
• NRCS State Transition Models for Ecological
  Sites Dennis Thompson

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