Document Type

Report

Publisher

SageSTEP

Publication Date

5-2010

First Page

1

Last Page

15

Abstract

As efforts are made to restore the health and functioning of sagebrush ecosystems within the Great Basin, various stakeholder interest groups have the potential to offer partnerships as well as adversarial involvement with land managers tasked with restoration. Given that greater than 60% of the Great Basin is publicly owned and managed by the Bureau of Land Management and other federal agencies, it is critical for those working in restoration to understand the views held by key stakeholder groups that may enhance or impair such efforts (Brunson and Peterson 2007). Gaining knowledge about and familiarity with those interest groups active in their respective regions, land managers can begin to identify the needs and priorities of individual stakeholders, and can integrate those positions into restoration planning to more effectively predict and avoid contention and conflict (Brunson and Peterson 2007). While the issues facing the Great Basin ecosystem increasingly become more complex and difficult to manage, it has been shown that stakeholder interest groups and land managers tend to agree on the needed use of restoration treatments by management agencies to address the current threats to public rangelands. Thus, it is vital for land managers to cultivate a thorough understanding of stakeholder groups most likely to assume an active role in public lands restoration.

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Available through SageSTEP (Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project) http://www.sagestep.org/pubs/stakeholderguide.html

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