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Collaboration

Meet the NFF's 2025 Conservation Connect Fellows

The NFF's Conservation Connect Fellowship program matches graduate students with a hands-on project, building experience,...

Collaborative Forest Stewardship: The State of the Field and Growing the NFF's Collaborative Capacity Program

Practitioners of collaborative forest stewardship bring together diverse stakeholders across sectors to work together towards...

Rare Plant Conservation and Restoration in Arizona's Mountain Streams

Many wetlands in the western United States, including Arizona, have undergone rapid changes driven by disturbances like...

Forest to Fireplace: The Many Benefits of Wood For Life

“Wood warms you three times: when you cut it, when you stack it, and when you burn it.” This proverb is an apt way to think...

Collaboration on National Forests: What elements are critical to success?

Collaboration is becoming a key strategy for overcoming the challenges faced by America’s forests. In recent decades, there...

Meet the NFF's 2024 Conservation Connect Fellows

The NFF's Conservation Connect Fellowship program matches graduate students with an on-the-ground project, building experience,...

Monitoring and Adaptive Management in the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests

In the National Forest System, officials develop monitoring programs to evaluate implementation and effectiveness of management...

A Future of Access for All: Researching Barriers for Historically Marginalized Communities in Accessing America’s National Forests & Public Lands

In working alongside BIPOC communities, environmental organizations have quickly realized that these communities were never...

Building Robust Partnerships

Partners empower each other to push projects forward and strengthen their communities. At the Columbia River Gorge National...

An improved space for wildfire management decision support in Northern California

In recent years, the frequency and severity of wildfires have increased significantly, posing a growing threat to ecosystems,...

Watershed Resiliency in Appalachia

As climate change models predict more extreme seasonal flooding and drought events, supporting watershed resiliency in the...

Interrupting Dominant Narratives

Each of us will have our own conceptions about the “natural world,” but what matters is not what any one of us thinks but...

Meet the NFF's 2023 Conservation Connect Fellows

2023 marks the sixth year of the Conservation Connect Fellowship Program. This year we are delighted to have 11 fellows from...

Working to diversify partnerships through reimagining the NFF’s Matching Awards Program

Over the course of my year-long practicum with Conservation Awards, I had the opportunity to shape the new direction of the...

New Visions, Timeless Landscape: The formation of a new coalition in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Recreation Area

There is a special part of Idaho known to locals and wide-ranging travelers alike; a particularly rugged and remote landscape...