Working together
for healthy landscapes
and quality lifestyles
Principles
There are dedicated individuals, community organizations, private consultants, and Foundations working to achieve productive and sustainable communities and their landscapes. NNSG would like to share the concepts that we have found helpful in our establishment and planning. Our references are a short list, but ones we have some relationship with.
Gary McVicker and Todd Bryan, authors of Community-based Ecosystem Stewardship, were educators in the first Bureau of Land Management Partnership Series training session given in Elko, Nevada in 1998.
Their paper represents the collective understanding grown from Mc Vicker experience as an agency resource ecologist and in special BLM administrative duties; Bryanontributions come through his degreed experiences with social ecology and natural resource issues, and involvement in facilitating community forums. The document details the principles necessary to embrace eirir own needs and interests, as well as those of the larger society and future generations, they must have access to reliable information and be empowered to use their own knowledge, skills, creativity, and resources to solve problems and adapt to changing conditions over time. to implement the principles found in Community-based Ecosystem Stewardship. Contact Charles Pregler at regler-at-blm.gov.
The Applegate Partnership was introduced at the 1998 Partnership Series session as a working example of how conflicted community members were brought together by the efforts of one person, Jack Shipley, to collaboratively craft a vision for their productive survival. The Partnership met weekly for 10 years. The Applegate River Watershed Council formed and directs restoration projects. The Applegator, the areas bimonthly newspaper, reports on numerous community activities, environmental topics, solicits feedback from the readers, and reflects the dedicated and inclusive nature of the valley and the principles they abide by. Shipley has traveled extensively sharing the successes of incorporating place-based, community-based ecosystem practices. Contact the Applegate Partnership: 6941 Applegate Road, Jacksonville, OR 97530, or by email at staff-at-arwc.org.
The Enlibra Principles developed by the Western Governorstion in the mid- 1990western states citizens frustration with their lack of involvement in solving natural resource/environmental problems. Enlibra is a term meaning balanced stewardship. There are eight principles that express Enlibra: 1. National Standards, Neighborhood Solutions; 2. Collaboration not Polarization; 3. Reward Results, Not Programs; 4. Science for Facts, Process for Priorities; 5. Markets Before Mandates; 6. Change a Heart, Change a Nation; 7. Recognition of Costs and Benefits; 8. Solutions Transcend Political Boundaries. These guidelines compliment the efforts and principles found in ecosystem stewardship.
INCLUDE or " Integrated Science and Community-Based Values in Land-use Decision Making" conceptualized and developed by U.S. Geological Survey scientists Herman A. Karl and Richard L. Bernknopf of Menlo Park, CA expresses the need to bring science and communities closer together. "INCLUDE is designed to facilitate interaction among scientists and the community...it is testing collaborative problem-solving techniques and in fact demonstrating that consensus is possible." Herman Karl presented the INCLUDE principles to NNSG and described a project in progress in the Menlo Park, CA area. Karl can be reached at hkarl-at-usgs.gov
The Quivira Coalition and their "New Ranch" service mark represent their work to "teach ranchers, environmentalists, public land managers, and other members of the public that ecologically healthy rangeland and economically robust ranches can be compatible." The Coalition affiliates itself with a movement identified as the Radical Center which upholds problem solving and new livestock management techniques which are restorative to the land and promotse sustainable landscapes and ecosystems. Members of NNSG have attended workshops presented at the past two Western Folklife Poetry Gathering events held in Elko, NV which shared information regarding The Quivira Coalition and the Radical Center. Contact: The Quivira Coalition 551 Cordova Road #423, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501.
The Sonoran Institute has benefited NNSG through their grant program Resources for Community Collaboration (RCC) in years 2004 and 2005. The Sonoran Institute has worked for a decade to respond to rural community's challenges with growth by providing tools to identify economies of scale and inventories of natural and cultural assets. They are committed to collaborative conservation and livable communities by supporting the principles of healthy landscapes and vibrant economies. The Institute represents a premier effort aimed at providing a wide array of tools necessary to address the complex problems of changing rural communities, natural resource issues and problem solving through the collaborative forum. View their work at their web site http://www.sonoran.org.
The National Forest Foundation (NFF) supported NNSG's establishment through a Community Assistance Program (CAP) grant in 2002. NFF "stands apart from similar organizations through its commitment to facilitating local involvement and encouraging grassroots participation in forest stewardship." Through the CAP grant, NNSG has had many of their operational needs met, and have provided educational and relationship forums in the community. Contact NFF at http://www.natlforests.org.