IHRMP-First Progress Report 7

First
Progress Report
July 1986–Dec 1987

University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Cooperative Extension

February 1988

ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION

Richard Standiford
Assistant Manager, IHRMP

James Bartolome
Coordinator for Research Activities, IHRMP

The present organization of UC’s IHRMP places it in the Natural Resources Program of Cooperative Extension (CE), which, as mentioned earlier, includes the Forestry, Range, and Wildlife Extension Units.

R. Skoog is Program Director for Natural Resources: he also serves as Manager of the IHRMP. R. Standiford, Natural Resources Specialist in Forest Management, serves as Assistant Manager. This general program leadership encompasses the following major duties:

1) Represent the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources to other organizations and agencies involved in hardwood management;

2) Prepare annual reports on progress and accomplishments of the Division’s IHRMP, including both research and extension results;

3) Provide a mechanism for the Policy Advisory Committee to the IHRMP to give priorities for research and extension,

4) Provide background material to the Policy Advisory Committee for consideration of priorities;

5) Provide for widespread publicity of the results from the IHRMP; and develop IHRMP as a Division- wide program to facilitate the bringing together of CE and Agricultural Experiment Station staff involved in the program.

The IHRMP recognizes the importance of developing non-traditional recreational opportunities for oak woodlands.

Standiford also serves as the “Coordinator of the Cooperative Extension Activities”, with major duties as follows:

1) Provide day-to-day coordination of the six regional hardwood specialists and county staff involved in hardwoods;

2) Coordinate appropriate evaluation of CE programs;

3) Coordinate development of a yearly plan of work for Cooperative Extension activities focused on goals and objectives of the program;

4) Maintain a liaison with CE Regional and County Directors to ensure broad county-based participation in the IHRMP.

The “Coordinator for Research Activities” is J. Bartolome, Associate Professor of Range Ecology at UC Berkeley. His major duties relative to the IHRMP are as follows:

1) Coordinate researchers funded by UC’s program, including an annual meeting of principal investigators to discuss ongoing progress of different projects;
2) Ensure that research funded by UC meets deadlines, and follows the approved study plan;

3) Provide a mechanism for writing Requests for Proposals on highest priority research topics, set by the Policy Advisory Committee;

4) Coordinate research activities with CDF’s research grant program in hardwood range;

5) Provide a mechanism for peer review of research proposals.

UCCE researchers are attempting to discover why regeneration is good on some sites and poor on others.

The above administrative structure will remain in place at least until 1 July 1988. At that time Vice President Farrell’s reorganization plan for UC’s Division of Agriculture and
Natural Resources is scheduled to take effect and the Natural Resources Program will cease to exist as a Cooperative Extension entity. This program area and the eight other CE programs will be eliminated and the present Directors will assume a different role and new responsibilities. Cooperative Extension and the Agricultural Experiment Station will be combined and administered under Vice President Farrell on the three campuses by three Deans: at Berkeley, Dean Gardner of the College of Natural Resources; at Davis, Dean Hess of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and at Riverside, Dean Sherman of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

At this time, it is not known how the reorganization will impact and/or change the IHRMP. Nevertheless, it seems clear that the program will remain a coordinated unit under one of the three Deans, attached to one of the campus Departments. Overall, it seems likely that the 6-region distribution of Natural Resource Specialists and regional projects will remain as is and that there will be little change in the focus and direction of the Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program.

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