The Bureau of Land Management will conduct the Workshop: "Assessing Rangeland Conditions: What is the Reference and How Is Departure Determined?"

An international team of experts will review a variety of approaches that are used to define reference conditions for assessments, and methods for assessing the degree of departure or degradation. The workshop will include information on to use a variety of tools, including GIS, to integrate scientific and local knowledge to systematically and objectively define reference conditions.