Landscape Approach to Resource Management Arizona Strategy

Incorporate landscape approach to integrate resource programs toward achieving common vegetation goals Builds on land management concepts and experiences that have been evolving for nearly three decades Example: Interdisciplinary Resource Management Ecosystem Management Secretarial order, sections in land use planning manual and Bureau wide initiative

Incorporate landscape approach to integrate resource programs toward achieving common vegetation goals Move from single program focus to an issues driven approach in address integrated vegetation resource management goals, objectives, planned actions and monitoring Work at the scale(s) most appropriate to the issue = Landscape Considering all resources values surrounding the issue. Thinking in terms of long-term benefits rather than short-term gains

Landscape = Multi-Scale Ecoregion State Field Office Watershed Site For example… Work at the scale(s) most appropriate to the issue

Landscape = Cross-Boundary Collaboration as a tool to recognize shared resources and connectivity Landscape = Cross-Boundary Internally: across the geographic and programmatic organizations within the BLM Externally: across Federal, State, and local governments and willing private stakeholders. Another big aspect to this is looking across boundaries, both internally and externally so that we can effectively work at the scale of the issue. Because virtually none of our resource issues are simply divided by a jurisdictional boundary.

The Arizona Conservation Partnership The partnership is working to: Standardize and streamline Coordinated Resource Management planning and practice design requirements Develop programmatic approaches for NEPA, T&E species recovery, cultural resource protection Promote the use of standardized soil surveys, ecological site descriptions, other basic resource data and maps across all agencies Promote standardize resource inventory, assessment and monitoring methods and interpretations for making science based land management decisions.