Abstract
Caves, J. K., G. S. Bodner, K. Simms, L. A. Fisher, and T. Robertson. 2013. Integrating collaboration, adaptive management, and scenario-planning: experiences at Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. Ecology and Society 18(3): 43. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05749-180343
Highlights
Federal public lands comprise nearly 650 million acres and almost 30% of the U.S This number nearly doubles when including lands under state or local jurisdictions
Las Cienegas National Conservation Area (LCNCA) is exploring two specific modifications to Collaborative decision making and adaptive management (CAM) that may better address emerging challenges, including: (1) creating nested resource objectives to distinguish between those objectives that may be crucial to maintaining ecological resilience from those that may hinder a flexible response to climate change, and (2) incorporating scenario planning into CAM to explore how climate change may interact with other drivers and alter options for the future, to identify robust management actions, and to prioritize ecological monitoring efforts
The four core elements that have emerged from experience have served the site well, allowing for flexible management actions that strive to achieve shared goals, ensuring that monitoring informs actions, creating mechanisms for collaboration, and encouraging continued shared learning
Summary
Federal public lands comprise nearly 650 million acres and almost 30% of the U.S This number nearly doubles when including lands under state or local jurisdictions. The core challenge for public land managers is to sustain in perpetuity the public benefits these lands provide, from resource harvest to biodiversity protection, watershed function to recreational opportunities. We highlight four core elements that have proven essential to implementing CAM and enabled participants to respond to changing conditions on the ground: (1) shared watershed goals with measurable resource objectives; (2) efforts to gather increasingly relevant and reliable scientific information; (3) mechanisms to incorporate new information into decision making; and (4) shared learning to improve both the process and management actions. We discuss the theoretical lessons from our experiences at Las Cienegas and propose that a combination of collaboration, adaptive management, and scenario planning can more fully address the range of ecological, societal, and temporal complexity that face public lands
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