Consideration of ESDs in Mongolia was initiated through interactions between several institutions, including the Green Gold Mongolia program, the Mongolian Society for Range Management (MSRM), the new Ministry of Environment and Green Development (MEGD, formerly MNET), the National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (NAMEM, within MEGD), the Institute for Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment (IMHE, a unit within NAMEM), the Administration of Land Affairs, Geodesy and Cartography (ALAGaC, a.k.a the Land Agency), the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture (MIA, formerly MOFALI), and research units including Research Institute of Animal Husbandry (RIAH) and the Institutes of Geoecology and Botany, Mongolian Academy of Sciences. Interactions with JER began in 2006 and were focused on establishing repeatable field-based monitoring  and assessment methodologies for the evaluation of rangeland health. Following the establishment of new nation-wide long-term monitoring methodologies within NAMEM after 2008, attention turned to the development of a framework for interpreting the broad-scale monitoring data and linking those interpretations to local-scale strategies to sustain and restore desired rangeland conditions. Since 2009, partner ministries alongside Green Gold and MSRM have advanced training and data collection in major ecoregions to develop initial ecological site concepts and generalized state-and-transition models (STMs). Beginning in 2013, efforts focus on the soum (county) to pasture user group (PUG) level to develop site-specific ecological site description (ESD) documents and maps that can be used for planning and near-term evaluation of management strategies by local governments and herders. These local efforts will be coordinated with national efforts to use ecological site information for interpretation of monitoring data.  In parallel, the partners seek to build capacity for ESD development and use via a multi-institutional National ESD Core Group. Below are several presentations and documents illustrating progress and new reports will be published here as they are finalized.