IMPLEMENTING STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES

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IMPLEMENTING STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES

• Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
• Al Christophersen
• July 18, 2007

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RMEF Mission
Ensure the future of elk, other wildlife and
their habitat
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Agency Interests

• Healthy Forests
• Healthy Landscapes
• Healthy Watersheds
• Healthy and Safe Communities

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WHY STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTING?

• Mutual Interests
• Healthy Forests and Landscapes
• Healthy wildlife habitat
• Healthy elk populations across those landscapes
• Education opportunities
• Access to lands
• Partnership

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• Mutual Benefits
• Accomplishment of treatments acres, miles
• Restoring grasslands, aspen, riparian, winter
  ranges, noxious weed treatments
• PR - Articles, news stories, field trips
• Successful use of Stewardship contracting tools
• Grants and supplemental funding
• Partnership enhancement

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HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• Be Passionate and Committed
• Understand your tools (IRTC, IRSC, AG)
• Understand Best Value
• Make it YOUR proposal, integrate with other
  resources
• Utilize your partners

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HOW TO DO IT

• Find those who are doing this work
• Know the legislation, policy, handbook and the
  premise of stewardship contracting
• Build your team-support and technical
• Bring your partners in early, listen, let them
  help
• Do It!
• Remember
• Those who think they can or think they cannot are
  correct

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WORK WE CAN DO

• FORAGE SEEDING
• NOXIOUS WEED TREATMENTS
• PRESCRIBED BURNING
• TIMBER HARVEST
• THINNING
• FUEL AND BRUSH REMOVAL
• FENCING AND WATER DEVELOPMENTS

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RMEF INVOLVMENT

• Few non-profits involved
• Reviewed over 70 projects
• 11 states
• All kinds of work
• IRTC, IRSC, agreements
• Active projects-6 contracts, 3 agreements
• Pending-6 committed to
• Training and meetings

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RMEF INVOLVEMENT

• Community Collaboration-volunteers, members,
  staff
• Local resources for contracting

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RMEF INVOLVEMENT

• Contracts
• Prime bidder or contractor
• Subcontract bidder or contractor
• RMEF will usually subcontract work
• Best Value is more partnership than bidding

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RMEF INVOLVEMENT

• Agreements
• Partnership sit at the table together, develop
  the proposal
• Flexible built together, exit options for both,
  adjust as we go along, long term
• Annual Operating Plan costs values adjust each
  year, lessons learned
• Commitment to agreement and partners

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ISSUES

• New way to THINK and ACT to do work
• Best Value is more partnership-need to be treated
  that way
• Contract Administration VS Enforcement
• Need Support at all levels- single person can
  stop process
• Training-consistency
• Retained Receipts-Use and Missuse

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MYTHS

• A Poor Timber Sale makes a Good SC
• Juniper and dead LPP become more valuable if put
  into a SC
• Everyone dealing with SC is an expert because
  they have read the handbook (?)
• RMEF has a big sack of money to pay for all the
  work

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BLACKFOOT CLEARWATER LANDSCAPE STEWARDSHIP
AGREEMENT 10 YEAR
WINTER RANGE BURNING, ASPEN RESTORATION, ROAD,
STREAM AND STREAM RESTORATION, THINNING,
GRASSLAND RESTORATION
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AGREEMENT CONTAINS Annual Operating Plan Agency
must complete NEPA Funding Options Other
agreements and partners
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WYOMING RANGE ASPEN RESTORATION 10-YEAR AGREEMENT
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FENCES are not BARRIERS
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CROOKED RIVER FORAGE SEEDING ON RESTORED LANDING
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FLAT STEWARDSHIP WINTER RANGE ENHANCEMENT UMPQUA
NF, OREGON
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ONLY FORAGE THESE ELK HAVE
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IRTC ADVERTISED MEADOW CREATION
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OPTIONAL BIOMASS AS FIREWOOD
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FORAGE SEEDING ON CLOSED AND TEMP ROADS
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CONIFER REMOVAL AND SCARIFYING
ASPEN RESTORATION CALIFORNIA
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SPRING MINK STEWARDSHIP IRTC
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WINTER RANGE THINNING AND SEEDING
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BLUESTEM AND COAL FIELD RESTORATION IN KENTUCKY
AND ARKANSAS
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NOXIOUS WEED TREATMENT
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WILDLIFE FRIENDLY FENCE
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THANK YOU
REMEMBER THOSE WHO WANT TO-CAN!