A cable from the US Embassy in Mongolia on the successes of the GL-CRSP GOBI Forage Project was recently approved for release to US government agencies and the public. The cable describes the GOBI Forage Project as a “cutting-edge project that has established a forage monitoring and forecasting service that regularly delivers map information to pastoral communities, policymakers and administrators responsible for agriculture and rural development.” The GOBI Forage Project, which has been operating since 2004, was further lauded by the cable for its successes, deriving in part from the Project’s “ability to successfully carry out four complementary activities: adapting the technology for measuring forage quantity to local conditions; conducting detailed field measurements of forage quality; information outreach; and linking information with herder alliances.” According to the cable, project “impact has been dramatic”. Many of the herders, provincial administrators, and technical specialists that were originally skeptical about the feasibility of obtaining accurate forage prediction maps are now impressed by the high quality predictive capacity of project technology and efficient information dissemination protocols.