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Anne Badgley/ORSO/OR/BLM/DOI
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Agenda & Background information - RIEC Meeting March 17th
Regional Interagency Executive Committee Members:
I am sending you the following information on behalf of the Adaptive Management/Monitoring RIEC subcommittee. This email contains the agenda and background information for the RIEC meeting on Friday, March 17th.
In response to your request at the last RIEC meeting, your staffs have conducted an extensive amount of work including an interagency workshop and a Senior Managers' Group meeting to develop recommendations for your consideration on March 17th. The research members of the RIEC also had a separate conference call to develop a list of recommendations on management questions to be answered by research.
This email has 12 attached files. Apologies for the large amount of material. The team wanted to ensure that you had all of the necessary information at hand before the meeting. They explored alternative ways of getting this information to you. None of them were effective, in light of your various geographical locations. We suggest that the RIEC members focus on the first four attachments titled: "agenda revised", "SMG recommendations", "fy06&07 budget" and "NWFP Research Executives conference call." The other attachments are useful background materials if you have questions about the Senior Managers' Group (SMG) recommendations. These additional materials also may be helpful to assist your staff as they talk with you prior to the meeting.
If you have questions or need hard copies of these materials please contact Becky Gravenmier (503)808-2851 or ML Smith (503)808-2269. They can assist with getting your questions answered or arranging discussions with the appropriate individuals prior to the meeting.
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LOGISTICS: The meeting will be held on Friday, March 17 from 9:00 - 12:00 at the Robert Duncan Plaza in Portland (Conference Room 3A/3B). In order to be efficient, attendance at the RIEC meeting is limited to RIEC members (or their alternate) and one staff person (Senior Managers or other). SMG members are reminded to brief their Executives on the SMG recommendations stemming from the Feb 28th SMG Workshop. It is anticipated that RIEC members will come to the meeting prepared to make decisions after reviewing recommendations from the SMG.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF MEETING: RIEC should come to meeting prepared to make decisions on:
Priority monitoring questions
Preferred option & budget for each monitoring question that is recommended as a priority
Management questions best answered by research that should be considered as regional Priority Questions
3. BACKGROUND INFORMATION DOCUMENTS:
A. March 17 meeting Agenda
B. Recommendations from the Senior Managers' Group (SMG) meeting on Feb 28th
The SMG met to discuss potential budgets and develop recommendations for RIEC on:
1) Which monitoring questions should become Priority Questions
2) Preferred options for addressing/funding each priority monitoring question
The SMG recommendations exceeded the estimated FY07 available funds for monitoring (~$X.X) by $XXXK annually and by $XXXK for total first year costs. The SMG agreed to review the package and forward ideas on how to reduce costs to the AM & Monitoring Task group. These ideas are included in the notes. Additional background materials have been compiled since the SMG meeting to address specific issues that were raised regarding aquatic/riparian monitoring and Northern Spotted Owl Options.
Budget -- FY06& estimated FY07 by Agency
C. Research Executives' Recommendations on Management Questions that can be Answered by Research - NEW
D. Revised Master Question Tracking Table (with all questions) - NEW
E. Information about New Northern Spotted Owl Options Developed by the SMG
More NSO detailed background information documents:
NSO Review Response - Aug 2004 (Maguire et al)
A Review of NSO Monitoring Program (internal review)
Notes from Conference Call with Attorneys and summary of other key NSO infoF. Revised Watershed Conditions Monitoring (see page 4 information on confidence as requested by SMG) - NEW
G. Late Successional Old Growth Background paper
H. Marbled Murrelet Options
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Anne Badgley
Executive Director
Regional Ecosystem Office
333 S.W. 1st Ave.
P.O. Box 3623
Portland, OR 97204-3440
(503) 808-2166
(503) 808-2163 FAX
anne_badgley@or.blm.gov