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Cutting Green Tape Roundtable: Table of Potential Streamlining Actions

California Natural Resources Agency
February 2020
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Table of proposed action items and associated themes, tactical approaches, durations, and guidance. Note: This document is a work in progress and will be regularly updated. Current version dated 2/12/20.

 

Cutting Green Tape Roundtable: Presentation Slides

California Natural Resources Agency
February 2020
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156 photos of planning activities, California landscapes, wildlife, and more. (PDF, 37.4 MB)

 

Cutting Green Tape: Roundtable Agenda

California Natural Resources Agency
February 2020
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February 12, 2020
10:00am-3:00pm
California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento CA

Meeting Goals

  1. Introduce CGT Initiative, including process and timeline, as one of Secretary Crowfoot’s 4 pillars in partnership with other state agencies.
  2. Develop and identify specific recommendations, tactics, mechanisms, and next steps to advance potential actions for increasing regulatory efficiencies.
  3. Obtain input on the development of a white paper, to be completed by Earth Day, that identifies actionable and achievable outcomes for increasing regulatory efficiencies for natural resource stewardship.

 

Cutting Green Tape: Roundtable Agenda

California Natural Resources Agency
January 2020
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January 6, 2020
10:00am-3:00pm
Putah Creek Lodge, Davis CA

Meeting Goals

  1. Introduce Cutting Green Tape as one of Secretary Crowfoot’s four pillars and build shared vision for this effort.
  2. Establish approach to advance this vision, including broad process and timeline.
  3. Establish goals and conditions for collaboration that will result in transformational yet feasible recommendations by Earth Day to achieve permitting efficiencies and other improvements.

 

Framework for Resilience: Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative

Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative
January 2020
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The Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative (TCSI) is a partnership among the
USDA Forest Service, California Tahoe Conservancy, Sierra Nevada
Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, National Forest Foundation,
California Forestry Association, and University of California Sagehen
Creek Field Station, and eight forest collaboratives. TCSI partners are
accelerating the restoration of forest and watershed resilience
through innovative planning, investment, and management across
the 2.4-million-acre landscape.

This document was adapted from a product developed in 2020 for
the Sierra Nevada Conservancy for the TCSI and funded by the
California Climate Investments

 

Advancing Collaboration in California

California Landscape Stewardship Network
January 2020
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This paper is a celebration of the many efforts the state has already undertaken to advance collaborative landscape stewardship. Innovative and forward-looking state efforts have inspired the California Landscape Stewardship Network (CA Network) to look ahead in partnership with the state, and explore ways we can work together to advance collaborative landscape scale approaches even further.

 

Cutting Green Tape Roundtable Meeting Notes

California Natural Resources Agency
January 2020
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Meeting Goals

  1. Introduce Cutting the Green Tape as one of Secretary Crowfoot’s four pillars and build shared vision for this effort.
  2. Establish approach to advance this vision, including broad process and timeline.
  3. Establish goals and conditions for collaboration that will result in transformational yet feasible recommendations by Earth Day to achieve permitting efficiencies and other improvements.

 

Early Detection Beyond Boundaries

One Tam
2020
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Invasive plants don’t see our property lines. The five partners that make up Marin County’s One Tam partnership know this, and they teamed up to create an Early Detection Rapid Response (EDRR) program tasked with identifying and managing weeds spanning the jurisdictions on Mt. Tamalpais. The EDRR team released this full report on its work from the first survey cycle, offering deep analysis of survey efforts and offering detailed strategies for addressing the mountain’s most formidable weeds. The early detection work is a cornerstone to One Tam’s efforts to protect the mountain’s iconic landscapes, and the plants and animals that call them home.

 

CALREC Vision

Mammoth Lakes Trails and Public Access Foundation
2020
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Sponsored and initiated by the Mammoth Lakes Trails and Public Access Foundation (MLTPA), the CALREC Vision project is working to highlight the essential, multi-benefit role that outdoor recreation plays in California. MLTPA has been engaged with local and regional issues of sustainable recreation and collaboration in California's Eastern Sierra since its inception and provides technical support to a regional public/public recreation-based solution, the Eastern Sierra Sustainable Recreation Partnership. Given its role employing collaboration to improve the social, environmental, and economic impacts of recreation in the Eastern Sierra, MLTPA invites you to visit mltpa.org to learn more about our work.

In launching the CALREC Vision Project, MLTPA engaged counsel from an array of federal, state, and regional agency and organizational experts as an Advisory Committee. Participants in the Advisory Committee generously shared their time, perspective, and advice on these topics through a series of facilitated, virtual meetings from May 2020 through July 2020. The results of those productive meetings were focused discussions and agreement about the need for cross-jurisdictional collaboration, as virtually every participant expressed encountering similar challenges. Participants also helped identify areas where collaboration can advance sustainable outdoor recreation goals within their respective agencies and organizations and throughout California.

 

California State Parks Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) Handbook for Invasive Species Management

California State Parks
2020
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This Early Detection Rapid Response (EDRR) Handbook for Invasive Species Management is designed for California State Parks (Parks) district natural resource managers and those planning and conducting terrestrial early detection surveys, field crews collecting data and eradicating new weeds, and partners, volunteers, or other groups interested in assisting and following these methods.

California State Parks Natural Resources Division (NRD) embarked on an EDRR pilot project in 2012 with Santa Cruz and Orange Coast Districts volunteering to lead the effort. Their Natural Resources (NR) staff contributed hundreds of hours in development of the methods and tested them firsthand. In 2014, Sierra, North Coast Redwoods, and San Diego Coast Districts joined the training and data collection effort. The original handbook was written in 2015 by Ramona Robison and Nita Barve (NRD) with Tim Hyland and Daniella Schweizer (Santa Cruz District). Technical assistance and review were provided by the Santa Cruz Resource Conservation District and the California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC). Some of the contents of the original handbook have been preserved; we have updated and expanded on various components for greater clarity and utility. This version was reviewed by Tim Hyland (Santa Cruz), Lana Nguyen (Orange Coast), and Michelle Forys (North Coast Redwoods) who are all implementing successful EDRR programs in their respective districts.

 

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