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Title: Eric Peterson,


1
Implementing aCooperative Permittee Monitoring
Program
  • Eric Peterson,
  • Area Natural Resource Education Specialist
  • Mountain West Extension Area

2
Introduction
  • Voluntary Cooperative Permittee Monitoring
    (CPM)
  • The 4-Cs

Communication, Cooperation, and Consultation,
all in the service of Conservation
3
Who Would Get Involved?
  • You are innovative
  • You are proactive
  • You understand the value of permittee involvement
    in the permits operation
  • You are a leader
  • You are interested in stewardship of your
    rangeland resources

4
What will happen to you?
  • Knowledge
  • Producers will learn and understand more about
    rangeland and its ecology
  • Range Specialists will learn and understand more
    about animal husbandry and ranch management
  • Learning is stimulating
  • You will think about the work and enjoy it!

5
The Alliance
  • Permittee and specialist will come to understand
    each other
  • Driving forces
  • Appreciation
  • Trust
  • A relationship forged in common understanding and
    toil

6
The Outcome
  • Creation of a body of information which does not
    exist
  • Documentation of past success
  • and/or
  • Demonstration of awareness of problems and
    commitment to addressing those problems via your
  • Objectives
  • Strategies
  • Evaluation

7
Is CPM needed?
  • Worries
  • Fox Guarding the Henhouse!
  • Its my job! Its your job
  • Who loses?
  • Time Commitment
  • But. . .
  • Defensible grazing program
  • Acres per specialist
  • Trusted technicians
  • Common understanding of management forces and
    objectives
  • Relationships

8
Coordination Between The Permittee And The Agency
Range Professional
  • Priority 1 Imperative
  • Coordination and Cooperation nullify resistance
  • Different worlds
  • A common goal
  • The alliance strengthens ownership and
    defensibility
  • Shared
  • Objectives
  • Process

9
Starting a Cooperative Permittee Monitoring
Program
  • This model works when
  • Voluntary
  • Voluntary Enhanced Stewardship
  • Compulsary Regulatory Compliance
  • All want success
  • Commitment to managing for Great Stewardship

10
The hard work isnt range management. Its group
process.
  • Proper representation
  • Agency
  • Permittee
  • Auxiliary process and technical advisors as
    appropriate

You must go slow to go fast.
11
Two Important Events
  • THE MEETING
  • THE TOUR

12
The Tabletop Meeting
  • Who
  • Principals in the administration of the permit
  • Principals in the operation of the permit
  • Others? CPM vs CRM
  • When
  • Early
  • Where
  • Safe Place

13
Meeting objectives
  • Verbal Mutual Commitment to Stewardship Goal
  • Discuss agency and permittee needs and
    constraints
  • Review maps and discuss
  • Cattle movements
  • Resource concerns
  • Describe characteristics of Potential key area
  • Review existing file for existing studies
  • Plan a field tour

14
The Tour (or tours)
  • Reasonable Tour group
  • Constructive vs. Confrontational
  • Accomplishments
  • Identify Key Areas
  • Write Objectives for Key Areas
  • Install monitoring methodologies
  • Training
  • Collection

15
CPM Monitoring Basics
  • Objective driven monitoring
  • Grazing related objectives
  • KISS methodologies
  • Do-able with limited training
  • Reliable accurately estimates reality
  • Valid direct link to management
  • Scheduling
  • Permanent Record

16
Monitoring Program Design
  • Highly tailored to specific situation
  • OBJECTIVE DRIVEN
  • Short Term Objectives
  • Long Term Objectives
  • Easy Objectives
  • Hard Objectives
  • Written and Archived

17
Logically Processing Objectives
  • Concern
  • Objective
  • Strategy
  • Anticipated outcome
  • Indicator/Data
  • Method

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Short Term Monitoring
  • Important in the current year/growing season
  • Climatological
  • Animal number/date/time/class
  • Other Noteworthy factors
  • Management
  • Insects
  • Plant community result
  • Use vs. Residual
  • Cumulatively important to trend

20
Trend Monitoring
  • Long term
  • Separate points in time
  • Supporting objectives concerned with
  • Resource condition and sustainability
  • Effect of management
  • Composition of plant community (KISS)
  • Photography

21
Riparian Concerns
  • Definition of Riparian Area
  • The areas in which cattle and critics
    congregate
  • No mysterious voodoo take care of the plants
  • Set Streambank Vegetation Objectives
  • Short Term
  • Longterm

22
Methods
  • Independent design?
  • Interagency Technical References
  • http//www.blm.gov/nstc/library/techref.htm
  • Wyoming Rangeland Monitoring Guide
  • KISS
  • Mutually agreeable
  • Reliable, valid, credible, do-able

Official File
23
Maintaining A Record Of Results
  • Intent Permanent record - Redundancy
  • Agency
  • Permittee
  • Others?
  • Houses burn, people move, memory fades.
  • The time to scrimp in not when you are standing
    in front of a color copier.

24
Two notebooks
  • 1) Permanent File
  • Organized by monitoring site
  • Permanent copies of Objectives worksheets
  • Establishment dates, location, players,
    objective, strategies, data requirements and
    methodologies, timeframe for review
  • Permanent copies of past year(s) data and
    photographs for each site

25
Two Notebooks
  • 2) Annual Data notebook
  • Prepared annually to be included into permanent
    notebooks
  • Cooperative Statement
  • Weather log
  • Grazing Record
  • Copies of Data Sheets from current years studies
  • Copies of photo studies
  • Objectives and data for special short term
    studies
  • Other noteworthy observations

26
Equipment and Expertise
  • Field notebook
  • Blank Data Forms and pencils
  • Copies of archive objective sheets and photo
    point references as necessary
  • Dry erase sheet with markers
  • Camera (dated image) and daytime film
  • 35 mm vs. digital
  • 15-20 mp vs. 5 no compression or digital tricks
  • 100 vs gt500

27
Equipment and Expertise , Cont
  • GPS
  • 100 Foot tape
  • Two folding carpenter rules
  • Transect stakes
  • Survey pins
  • Hardware stores or www.benmeadows.com
  • USFS Utilization Gauge
  • www.bookstore.colostate.edu

28
Equipment and Expertise , Cont
  • Training
  • Identification of
  • Objectives
  • Key areas
  • Key species
  • Study
  • Methodology Selection
  • Study installation
  • Data reading and recording

Educators aint no use if you dont use em!
paraphrased from Hight Profit
29
Conclusion
  • Three year investment for agency specialist
  • Enhanced understanding of
  • Rangeland ecology
  • Range management
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Vastly improved set of defensible data
  • Improved relationships an alliance

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