Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Primary meeting minutes:

• the primary (nearish-term) goal of this group should be to seek funding opportunities that allow us to do the work that we eventually want to complete, namely producing a high-quality combined model of range economics and ecology that itself is informed by regional (and national/global) economic activity and likewise feeds back the opposite direction.
• Seeking funding opportunities will be the primary thrust for the first year to year-and-a-half for this group
• The upcoming October meetings will be primarily a writing/assignment of writing tasks
• These meetings have prepped us to have more efficient meetings in October, as we have a clearer sense of the research questions (from the first bullet point)
• The post-Octber plan is to begin to craft a general proposal outline that can be tailored to applicable grant RFPs that may exist in the future

On-Going Tasks:

• Grow the membership of the group in both numbers, and expertise areas
• Focus on areas where each member feels capable of engaging with the research questions
• Determine the staffing/funding needs to answer the research questions
• Keep abreast of funding opportunities
• Prepare to have October meetings be productive and able to produce tangible outcomes

• These meetings were primarliy preparatory for a larger thrust in October
• A major goal of the future meetings will be to ensure that accomplishments are made in each area