1. Community Dynamics
“Collaboration leading to Synergism”
Prepared for Holistic Management International Webinar
August 10, 2012
Bill Burrows, Coordinator
Sunflower Coordinated Resource Management Plan (CRMP)
Burrows Ranch, Incorporated
12250 Colyear springs Road
Red Bluff, CA 96080
TEL: 530-529-1535
Email: Sunflowercrmp@hughes.net
www. Sunflowercrmp.com
“Dedicated to the Social, Financial, and Environmental Enhancement
of our Communities”

2. The Process Begins With a “Need”
• Financial
• Environmental
• Community
• Education
• Training
• Catastrophic Event
NOTE: Usually all of the above!
“Complexity Leads to Stability”

3. Developing Your Collaboration
Team
Building trust with all interested parties – Landowners,
Agencies, Environmentalists, Local community members and
those who may be affected.
Encourage the group to build the goal and agenda around
the “need”.
Develop an “Adaptive Management Team” to direct the
activities.
“Dance” with the people who want to “dance”!

4. Develop Partners
 Bureau of Land Management
US Forest Service
US Fish & Wildlife Service
Natural Resource Conservation Service
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
California Department of Fish and Game
UC Cooperative Extension
The Wilderness Society
Humboldt and Chico State Universities
University of California, Davis
Shasta Community College
Tehama County Resource Conservation District
Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group
100 landowners within SCRMP boundries
Support grants from Title II, RAC, USFS, BLM, Chico State Foundation,
NRCS, and SARE

5. Must Begin with a Goal
Our “goal” was and is:
MISSION STATEMENT
…TO ENHANCE 33,000 ACRES (NOW 80,000 AC) OF CHAPARRAL
BELT LAND AND ASSOCIATED AREAS IN ORDER TO MAKE THE
LAND MORE PRODUCTIVE AND SAFE FOR THE SOCIAL,
FINANCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS OF THE
TEMPORARY STEWARDS OF THE LAND.

6. 80,000 ACRE AREA
100+
Landowners

7. Evaluate All Tools with Partners to
Assist in the Overall Mission
TOOLS Living Money
Human (Technology – Rest – Fire – Grazing – Animal) Organisms and Labor
Creativity Impact

8. Use the Feedback Loop often!

9. Use the Testing Guidelines Often!
1.Cause and Effect
2.Weak Link (social, biological, financial)
3.Marginal Reaction
4.Gross Profit Analysis
5.Energy/Wealth Source and Use
6.Sustainability
7.Society and Culture

10. Coyote Up – Adapt or Die
If you can’t change it,
Adapt to it! Make it Work for You!

11. Example: Results of Feedback Loop –
large mob of goats and hair sheep to
financially sustain our mission.
(Play Stewardship Video)

13. Example of Agency group satisfying
their “need” for a Northern California
Safety and Equipment Training
Workshop – (Cal-Fire)
___________

15. Example: Work with Universities to
support research and students
RED-LEGGED FROG RESEARCH – (ENDANGERED SPECIES)
___________

16. Summary
Use your Holistic Management skills to
develop collaboration leading to synergism
– where the sum results are greater than
the addition of the parts.
COYOTE –UP! - JUST DO IT!
“Dedicated to the Social, Financial, and Environmental Enhancement of our
Communities”