Medicine Bow- Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland
Susbainability Operations Team Charter
May 2006-2008.
The purpose of this document is to charter the Sustainable Operations Team for the
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland (MBR).
The Sustainable Operations Team will be composed of Priscilla Foster, Melissa Miller,
Mike Ross, and Mike Wheeler. Team members will serve for one year at a time and be
expected to spend not more than one day a month on sustainable operations activities.
This team will remain in effect until October 1, 2008. At that time the Forest Supervisor
will decide if the team should be re-chartered.
Sustainable operations practices are those practices, which increase the environmental
stewardship of day-to-day operational decisions such as water and energy conservation,
fleet and transportation management, and waste prevention and recycling. The Team will
concentrate on promoting cost-effective energy and resource-efficient day to day
operations which support the land management activities of MBR. The role of the Team
will include:
 Selecting within their number a chair to organize meetings and to serve as liaison
with the FLT.
 Recommending short term and long term sustainability goals for the Forest.
Making recommendations to the Forest Supervisor and FLT to meet Forest
sustainable operations goals.
 Maintaining the Forest Sustainable Operations web-page including the
suggestions page with suggested, approved and accomplished actions.
 Providing information and technical guidance to the Forest units on matters
related to sustainable operations.
 Serving as a forum for exchange of information and ideas between Forest units
about sustainable operations.
 Developing a Forest-wide baseline from which resource impacts would be
reduced.
 Developing a strategy for identify transportation issues on the Forest and
potential solutions.
 Develop a program that fosters the use of environmentally friendly products,
from procurement of products to their use, application, and disposal.
 Develop employee, visitor and community education information products to
communicate sustainable operations principles and goals.
 Implement waste stream reduction (recycling, composting, etc) and pollution
prevention activities.
 Developing monitoring, inventory and assessment protocols for operational
activities.
 Maintain a record of Forest sustainable operations activities to facilitate upward
reporting.
The Sustainable Operations Team will seek to better the understanding of the
interrelationship between energy use, economics, and environmental impacts and,
through leadership and example, work to educate and guide others connected to Forest
Service operations in reducing expenditures, while simultaneously advancing the
principles of sustainability.
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Forest Supervisor
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