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Institutionalized Community Based Natural Resource Management:

Institutionalized Community Based Natural Resource Management:. An Assessment of the BLM Resource Advisory Councils. Tentative Clients and SNRE Advisor. Elena Gonzales, Department of the Interior, Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution

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Institutionalized Community Based Natural Resource Management:

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  1. Institutionalized Community Based Natural Resource Management: An Assessment of the BLM Resource Advisory Councils

  2. Tentative Clients and SNRE Advisor • Elena Gonzales, Department of the Interior, Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution • Ellen Brody, National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration • Julia Wondolleck, SNRE

  3. BLMResource Advisory Councils (RACs) • Established in 1995 • Citizen-based, collaborative groups established • To provide BLM with stakeholder input and “on the ground” perspective, and • To build consensus on contentious issues • 24 RACs throughout the West

  4. NOAASanctuary Advisory Councils (SACs) • National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) • Authorized by Congress in 1992 through the National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) • Act as conduits from the community to individual marine sanctuaries

  5. Purpose of the Study • To conduct an investigation of collaborative natural resource management initiatives that are institutionalized by Federal agencies, specifically BLM RACs. • To compare RACs and SACs

  6. Research Questions • Can institutionalized community-based processes provide an effective avenue for Federal agencies to manage conflict? • Experience • Variation • Accomplishments and challenges • Lessons learned • Perceptions and attitudes toward RACs

  7. Research Methods • Literature review • Case studies • Selection • Interviewing • Case analysis • Comparative analysis • Survey of perceptions

  8. Products of the Research • Report • Guidance document • Assessment of the difference between RACs and SACs, specifically the implications of the different legal structuring of SACs and RACs

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