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DURING the past four decades in Oregon, concern about development and management of renewable natural resources has undergone significant change. Initially, concern focused on resource management for commercial use, mainly grazing. More recently, concern about watershed, riparian, and aesthetic values and wildlife habitat have become recognized as important components of resource management programs.
With the advent of these changes came the involvement of additional and different disciplines, agencies, organizations, and individuals in the planning and implementation of resource management plans. This, in turn, necessitated thought about how such diverse interests could be amalgamated into an efficient, effective team to produce a feasible, practical, and scientifically correct management program on the land.
Most of the important innovations to achieve this goal have to do with obtaining mutual understanding among a diverse, sometimes polarized group of participants (2). The coordinated resource management planning (CRMP) process, which also was an innovation in then-current planning processes, has since spawned a number of innovative amendments to handle new situations as they arose under field conditions.
Some background
The CRMP process originated in Oregon (3). The first plan, formulated in late 1949, involved the Soil Conservation Service, Bureau of Land Management, Eagle Valley Conservation District, and five ranchers who grazed their livestock in common on the Dry Gulch grazing allotment in eastern Baker County. This group synchronized their grazing permits and formulated a resource program for the allotment that complemented the land conservation program on each of their base ranches. The first project installed was development of Tartar spring. BLM furnished the materials, and the ranchers did the work. …
Footnotes
E. William Anderson is a certified range management consultant, 1509 Hemlock, Lake Oswego, Oregon 97034.
- Copyright 1991 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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