Community Dynamics“Collaboration leading to Synergism”
Prepared for Holistic Management International Webinar
August 10, 2012
Bill Burrows, Coordinator Sunflower Coordinated Resource Management Plan (CRMP)
Burrows Ranch, Incorporated12250 Colyear springs Road
Red Bluff, CA 96080TEL: 530-529-1535
Email: [email protected]. Sunflowercrmp.com
“Dedicated to the Social, Financial, and Environmental Enhancement of our Communities”
The Process Begins With a “Need”• Financial• Environmental• Community• Education• Training• Catastrophic EventNOTE: Usually all of the above!
“Complexity Leads to Stability”
Developing Your Collaboration Team
Building trust with all interested parties – Landowners, Agencies, Environmentalists, Local community members and those who may be affected.
Encourage the group to build the goal and agenda around the “need”.
Develop an “Adaptive Management Team” to direct the activities.
“Dance” with the people who want to “dance”!
Develop Partners Bureau of Land Management
US Forest Service US Fish & Wildlife Service
Natural Resource Conservation Service California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
California Department of Fish and Game UC Cooperative Extension The Wilderness Society
Humboldt and Chico State Universities University of California, Davis Shasta Community College
Tehama County Resource Conservation District Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group
100 landowners within SCRMP boundries Support grants from Title II, RAC, USFS, BLM, Chico State Foundation,
NRCS, and SARE
Must Begin with a Goal
Our “goal” was and is:
MISSION STATEMENT…TO ENHANCE 33,000 ACRES (NOW 80,000 AC) OF CHAPARRAL
BELT LAND AND ASSOCIATED AREAS IN ORDER TO MAKE THE LAND MORE PRODUCTIVE AND SAFE FOR THE SOCIAL, FINANCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS OF THE TEMPORARY STEWARDS OF THE LAND.
80,000 ACRE AREA
100+ Landowners
Evaluate All Tools with Partners to Assist in the Overall Mission
TOOLS
Human (Technology – Rest – Fire – Grazing – Animal)Creativity Impact
LivingOrganisms
Money and Labor
Use the Feedback Loop often!
Use the Testing Guidelines Often!
1.Cause and Effect2.Weak Link (social, biological, financial)3.Marginal Reaction4.Gross Profit Analysis5.Energy/Wealth Source and Use6.Sustainability7.Society and Culture
Coyote Up – Adapt or Die
If you can’t change it, Adapt to it! Make it Work for You!
Example: Results of Feedback Loop – large mob of goats and hair sheep to financially sustain our mission.
(Play Stewardship Video)
Example of Agency group satisfying their “need” for a Northern California Safety and Equipment Training Workshop – (Cal-Fire)
___________
Example: Working with environmental group to support their “need”
Example: Work with Universities to support research and students___________
RED-LEGGED FROG RESEARCH – (ENDANGERED SPECIES)
Summary
Use your Holistic Management skills to develop collaboration leading to synergism – where the sum results are greater than the addition of the parts.
COYOTE –UP! - JUST DO IT!“Dedicated to the Social, Financial, and Environmental Enhancement of our
Communities”