Excerpt:
"In addition to the many activities that took place this year, 2007 marked the successful conclusion to our first official five-year plan. Titled "The Next Step for The Quivira Coalition," this plan was composed in the fall of 2002, shortly after the staff and the Board of Directors changed the mission statement of the organization to read: "To foster ecological, economic and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship."

"This was an important revision to the original goal of The Quivira Coalition, which had been to offer "common sense solutions to the grazing debate," principally by broadcasting the principles of ecologically sensitive ranch management through workshops, publications, and demonstration projects.

"As we wrote in the new plan, our original goal was "not only to create a neutral place where people could explore their interests, instead of argue their positions, but also to explore collaboratively the new knowledge, new methods, and emerging values that were rushing rapidly toward all of us. We intended to be a vehicle for information as well as a catalyst for change--not a debating society. In the beginning, the question was not whether sustainable ranch management was possible, but rather how to spread the news."

Contents:

• 6th Annual Conference featuring Wendell Berry
• Land and Water Projects
• New Ranch Network and Land Health Services
• Outreach Event Calendar
• New Five-Year Plan
• Financial Report
• Acknowledgments