Partners
DOD
Role http://www.mojavedata.gov/
The Mojave Desert Ecosystem Program (MDEP) represents a Department of
Defense (DOD) effort to meld together a shared scientific database that
can be used to affect dynamic sustainable land management decisions. It
is not itself a management process, but a tool to enable more accurate
modeling of environmental factors that will facilitate data driven
management within the Mojave ecoregion. The program directly supports
the military readiness in the region through provision of a framework
for determining research strategies, mitigation measures and designing
enlightened, long-term resource planning to ensure ongoing activities,
including training mission objectives. It will provide all users
(federal, state, local, and private) easy Internet access to
georeferenced natural and cultural resource data for the entire
ecoregion. The program is a model for the sharing and integration of
data and expertise from a long list of participants including the
National Training Center, Fort Irwin; Naval Air Weapons Station, China
Lake; Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base; Marine Corps
Air Ground Combat Center, Twenty Nine Palms; and Marine Corps Logistics
Base, Barstow.
DMG Role http://www.dmg.gov/
The California Desert Managers Group (DMG) was formed to provide desert
wide operational collaboration for ecosystem management, customer
service and organizational efficiency. The DMG was instrumental in the
formulation, support and guidance of the MDEP. Through its Science and
Data Management Team, a major role of the DMG has been to provide the
link between the technological capabilities and the on the ground user
requirements for a diverse array of agency missions and management
directions. This overview provides the priorities for data collection,
the encouragement for funding and the coordination of input from on
going science and research projects. |
