Ecosystem Management via Cross-Agency Management

1. Issue an Ecosystem Management directive by September 1994. (2)

The President should issue a directive that:

** establishes a national policy to encourage sustainable economic
development and ensure sustainable ecosystems through ecosystem
management;

** states that this policy will be carried out through collaboration
between federal agencies and coordination with state, local, and tribal
governments and the public;

** calls for phased-in implementation of a cross-agency ecosystem
management process for federal actions, beginning with demonstration
ecosystems selected by an Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force.
This process will be expanded, as appropriate, to include additional
ecosystems and to establish suitable management scales for comprehensive
ecosystem management;

** establishes specific overarching goals and general guidelines for the
cross-agency ecosystem planning and management process; and

** directs agencies to interpret their existing authorities as broadly
as possible to implement the ecosystem management policy and process.