Sustainable Recreation Partnership

Welcome!

MLTPA is pleased to provide this web page providing additional information for the Eastern Sierra Sustainable Recreation Partnership (ESSRP). For the latest Partnership information, please be sure to visit the ESSRP web page.

Project Description: The Eastern Sierra Sustainable Recreation Partnership was initiated on July 18, 2017 at a joint meeting of the Mono County Board of Supervisors and the Mammoth Lakes Town Council. Over the next year, representatives of Mono County, the Town of Mammoth Lakes, the Inyo National Forest, the Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest, the Washington Office of the USFS, and Mammoth Lakes Recreation worked together to draft and sign a partnership agreement and to secure the funding from Mono County and the Town of Mammoth Lakes for a staff position that currently lives in Mammoth Lakes Recreation. Recent additions to the Partnership include Alpine County (voted to join on August 20, 2019), the City of Bishop (voted to join on September 9, 2019), and Inyo County (voted to join on October 8, 2019).

Critical Documents

Featured below are “critical documents” that have been created or utilized by the ESSRP. Scroll through this webpage and click on items of interest to download and review.

Foundational Agreement – July 2018

The original USFS Non-Funded Challenge Cost-share Agreement to establish the ESSRP was finalized in June/July of 2018. “Parties to the agreement desire to focus their combined energy and resources to cooperatively perform projects and activities..." as a sustainable recreation program.

Western Colorado Landscape Collaborative

A example used to establish the ESSRP was Colorado’s “Western Colorado Landscape Collaborative”, whose mission/purpose was “To influence the management of public lands through collaborative processes that benefit the local economies and environments of west central Colorado.”

Nature’s Value: MT. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

Prepared by Earth Economics, this important study “… highlights the relationship between providers and beneficiaries of natural capital by estimating the economic benefits provided by the natural environment of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (MBSNF) to the Emerald Corridor.”

Mono County / Town of Mammoth Lakes – July 2017

A joint meeting of the Mono County Board of Supervisors and the Mammoth Lakes Town Council on July 18, 2017 initiated the effort that established the Eastern Sierra Sustainable Recreation Partnership and an Eastern Sierra Sustainable Recreation Coordinator.

Inyo National Forest Management Plan - 2019

Adopted in 2019, “Sustainable Recreation” is one of the three primary focus areas of this recently updated Inyo National Forest Management Plan, which is the guiding direction for the Inyo National Forest. The other focus areas include “Fire Management”and “Ecological Integrity”.

USFS - "A Framework for Sustainable Recreation"

Download and review the USFS document known as "A Framework for Sustainable Recreation", a guiding document for the ESSRP effort that was originally published by the USFS in 2010 and referenced in the Inyo National Forest Management Plan Revision process.

USFS: “Nature’s Benefits from Your National Forests”

The mission of the USDA Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations, and the Inyo National Forest is no exception. Last updated in 2020.