Documents — Governance

The 2026-2035 LTER Network Strategic plan focuses on identifying and prioritizing the activities that require a network. This is not a plan for site activities, nor even a plan for the Network Office. Instead, we started with the question: “What questions can we answer...

The bylaws revision was approved March 4, 2026, by affirmative vote of 24 out of 26 active lead principal investigators. Changes in this revision: Due to changes in the way that the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) manages the LTER Network, with more emphasis on...

In the attached revision, bylaws have been updated to reflect the current practice of the LTER Network, ahead of a planning process launched in Summer, 2024. Expect a further set of revisions following the planning process (Spring/Summer 2025). Reviewed and approved at...

Network bylaws were revised at the 2017 Science Council Meeting to include the Director of the Network Communications Office as a voting member of the Executive Board and the Director of the Environmental Data Initiative as an ex officio member of the Executive Board.

Bylaws for the Long Term Ecological Research Network revised 5-12

The LTER Bylaws were created in response to recommendations from the Twenty-year Review of the LTER Program, which took place in 2002. The goal of the bylaws is to institutionalize operational norms for the LTER Network.

Bylaws for the Long Term Ecological Research Network revised 5-08

Bylaws for the the LTER Network. Revised May 18, 2006.

Long Term Ecological Research Network Bylaws Revision 1.0, September 21, 2005

Long Term Ecological Research Network Bylaws as of September 19, 2003.