We formed a coalition because just as no man is an island;

no one entity can do it all. 

December of 2002, the Coalition publishes Annual Report for 2002. 

September of 2002, the Coalition receives 501C3 nonprofit status from the internal Revenue Service.

March of 2002, Kathleen Clark, Director of the Bureau of Land Management visits eastern Nevada and meets with ENLC Board of Trustees.

February of 2002, the Coalition steering committee elects the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition Board Of Trustees, thus replacing the steering committee.

January of 2002, the Coalition went online to communicate through the world wide web.

December of 2001, the Coalition published its first quarterly newsletter, "Landscape News".

May of 2001, the Coalition rented office space at 1776 Aultman in Ely.  During the course of that year we hired a project coordinator, administrative aide, and a contract writer.  The staff made several presentations around the state seeking support and donations for the Coalition.  Coalition members also began seeking grants from several different sources.

March of 2001, the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition was formalized at a meeting in Reno.  Close to 100 individuals from a broad cross-section of organizations, universities, and state and federal agencies attended the meeting.

It became apparent during the meeting that everyone wanted to see something done on the ground to help restore landscape health in Eastern Nevada.  Although there were many ideas how to do this, everyone realized that our restoration methods over the past several decades – 100 to 1000 acres at a time, were not accomplishing the task.  The restoration projects needed to be on a much larger scale.

During the Reno meeting several people volunteered to officially serve on an executive committee and several others agreed to serve in an ex-officio capacity.  This interim executive committee scheduled its next meeting for the end of April in Ely.  Since that point in time the executive committee has met almost every month to develop the Coalition framework, address basic administrative tasks, and to discuss the first projects that the BLM wished to undertake – namely the Ely and Mount Wilson Urban Interface projects.

In addition to the steering committee meetings a committee made up primarily of the Bureau of Land Management personal, several individuals from the University of Nevada Reno and Utah State University and individuals from the steering committee who had a strong interest in research, began meeting on a monthly basis.  This science committee outlined baseline data requirements, is in the process of identifying what data has already been collected, and in what areas additional data should be collected to properly monitor the projects.

The science committee also produced a white paper for the Coalition, which discusses the history of the Eastern Nevada landscape and how past management has brought us to this point.  The paper discuss the consequences of doing nothing, and the forecast is catastrophic given the ecological conditions and threats from invasive species.  Fire prevention is not good management in a fire disturbance regime.  Doing nothing is not a viable option.

In the summer of 2000, Gene Kolkman, the Ely District Manager for the Bureau of Land Management, invited a group of leaders from the resource management and the conservation community to see what was happening on the land.  The result was a commitment by several organizations to the vision of the land’s potential.  The vision of workable ecosystem management with improvement on our past management practices caught the imaginations of this diverse group.

It was evident to this group that the lessons learned from the adaptive management process on private lands could be implemented on public lands.  These lessons have taught us to manage for the land while using it, rather than managing for the use.

In 1999, after raging wildfires had swept Nevada and much of the West, the Great Basin Restoration Initiative was born.  The Eastern Nevada Landscape Restoration Project was developed as a means of implementing the restoration initiative.

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