• Identify and promote targets for plant recruitment to sustain desired hardwood rangeland stand structure
  
• Identify practices that maintain high quality water
  
• Identify sensitivity of oak ecosystems to disturbance
  
• Slow rate of loss of plant and animal species
  
  

Goal 2
Maintain wildlife habitat on hardwood rangelands.
Objectives:

• Develop management information and recommendations for wildlife species
  
• Develop management practices to maintain threatened and endangered species
  
• Maintain landscape components of habitat (corridors, riparian zones, etc.)
  
• Integrate wildlife habitat into landscapes altered through urbanization
  
• Identify sensitivity of wildlife to disturbance
  
  

Goal 3
Restore degraded hardwood rangelands.
Objectives:

• Develop and implement planting techniques to successfully reestablish oaks
  
• Define targets for habitat restoration
  
• Develop habitat restoration techniques for shrubs, native grasses, and other ecosystem components
  
• Promote production and distribution of native plant materials by nurseries
  
  

Goal 4
Promote the incorporation all available information in state, regional, county, and local land use planning to conserve hardwood rangeland ecosystems.
Objectives:

• Incorporate hardwood rangeland conservation into General Plans
  
• Develop mitigation techniques and standards for altered hardwood rangelands
  
• Make planners and local policy makers aware of hardwood rangeland values
  
• Provide expertise that helps minimize urban/wildland interface conflicts
  
• Coordinate hardwood rangeland conservation with fire-safe planning efforts
  
  

Goal 5
Maintain economically viable private hardwood rangelands
Objectives:

• Evaluate markets for hardwood rangeland products
  
• Educate landowners about management alternatives
  
• Encourage new markets that enhance profitability
  
  

Goal 6
Help focus general public awareness about importance of hardwood rangeland habitats
Objectives:

• Coordinate youth education programs
  
• Work with homeowner organizations to increase awareness of hardwood rangeland values
  
• Conduct environmental education programs for the general public
  
  

Goal 7
Maintain statewide information base about the trends, conditions, and extent of hardwood rangelands
Objectives:

• Maintain statewide Geographic Information System on hardwood rangelands
  
• Conduct short-term monitoring to evaluate losses of hardwood rangelands
  
• Develop techniques and methods to monitor hardwood rangelands
  
• Distribute information to managers and policymakers
  

Oak Woodland Workshop for Native Americans Much of the land traditionally utilized by California’s Native Americans were oak woodlands. These areas supplied game, acorns for food, and ceremonial uses. In recent years, they have been used for livestock and firewood harvesting. Currently, a number of reservations and rancherias contain large areas of oak woodlands. In order to provide leaders of various tribal governments with the results of current ecological research on oak woodlands, and recommended management practices to ensure sustainability of resource values, a workshop was held at the Sierra Foothill Range Field Station in May of 1991. Topics presented included: oak woodland values for wildlife, wood production, and livestock; methods to inventory and assess current structure of the hardwood rangelands; restoration of oak woodlands; and environmentally sensitive wood harvesting technology. Workshop participants shared how hardwood rangelands have historically been used by Native Americans, and what kinds of values these lands provided to their people.