1. Landscape Approach to Resource Management
Arizona Strategy

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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.

6. 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.