2023 Rangeland Stewardship and Rangeland Innovations Awards Nominations

United States Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
https://www.blm.gov

March 13, 2023

In Reply Refer To:
4100 (HQ-220) P

EMS TRANSMISSION 03/29/2023

Information Bulletin No. 2023-032   

To:                  All Field Office Officials

From:              Assistant Director, Resources and Planning

Subject:           2023 Rangeland Stewardship and Rangeland Innovations Awards Nominations

DD: 05/01/2023 and 05/15/2023

Improving the health and resilience of rangelands are some of the most important goals we pursue in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Directorate of Resources and Planning (HQ200) requests nominations for the 2023 Rangeland Stewardship and Rangeland Innovations Awards to recognize valuable contributions from external BLM partners to achieving these goals. The BLM seeks to celebrate rangeland stewards and innovators across all states and rangeland community types.

Two awards (an individual award and a group award) will be presented in each category. The categories are:

• Rangeland Stewardship – recognizing both an individual grazing permittee/lessee AND a collaborative external team.
• Rangeland Innovations­ - recognizing both an individual grazing permittee/lessee AND a collaborative external team.

We strongly encourage the submissions of nominations for each of these awards. Every day, BLM partners are conducting innovative, important, and effective conservation efforts; please help us in recognizing and celebrating these achievements. Nomination procedures and award details can be found in the attachment. The BLM awards are presented annually at the Public Lands Council’s Annual Meeting in recognition of outstanding contributions. Meeting location and dates of the meeting are typically announced each May.

All nominations should include:

• The condition of public rangelands that demonstrates healthy, resilient landscapes.
• The use of beneficial or innovative management practices that restore, protect, or enhance rangeland resources.
• Efforts to collaborate and cooperate with other users of public lands.
• Communication of successful management outcomes with other land stewards.

Past recipients have demonstrated innovations in livestock management, vegetation and wildlife habitat management, drought resilience, and collaboration in working across boundaries to address complex landscape-level resource management challenges. If a nomination was submitted in the past and not selected, please consider resubmission if the criteria are still met.

Field Managers or delegated staff are encouraged to discuss this opportunity broadly and with partners and submit nominations to one or more award categories. Nominations should be submitted to their respective Deputy State Director for Resources (DSD) with a cc to your State Range Program Lead by May 01, 2023. State Offices will review Field Office nominations and send approved nominations by the DSD to Marlo Draper, Division Chief, Division of Forest, Rangeland, and Vegetation Resources (HQ-220) (mdraper@blm.gov)  with a cc to Jessica Phillips (jmphillips@blm.gov) by May 15, 2023. In the subject line of each nomination, clearly state the award category for which you are submitting a nomination.

Signed by:                            Authenticated by:

Brian St George                    Robert M. Williams

Acting, Assistant Director    Division of Regulatory Affairs and Directives,(HQ-630)

Resources and Planning

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   1 - Nomination Process for the Rangeland Stewardship and Rangeland Innovations Awards (2pp)