Collaboration Resources

In addition to offering short-term facilitation and assistance to numerous collaborative groups across the country, we have been actively involved in facilitating and/or participating in the following processes:

• 5B Restoration Coalition
• Beaverhead Deerlodge Working Group
  
• Carson Rock Climbing Meetings
• Find Your Fourteener Partners
• Forest Products Modernization Partner Feedback Sessions
• Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership
• Midewin Stakeholders Coalition
• Panhandle Forest Collaborative
• Questa to Red River Stakeholders
• Red River Roads Stewardship Collaborative Group
• San Gabriel Mountains Community Collaborative
• Stakeholders Forum for the Nantahala and Pisgah Plan Revision
• Wildfire Adapted Missoula
  
• Wildfire Crisis Strategy Roundtables

The National Forest Foundation documents tools, best practices, and examples of collaborative processes for a "Toolbox" of shared knowledge. The purpose of these documents is to enable easy sharing of innovation and creativity in the field of collaborative stewardship.

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Peer Learning Sessions are 90-minute video and web conference discussions around key issues collaborators face when working on National Forest issues. Objectives include:

• Supporting shared learning and exchange of knowledge among community-based collaborative groups and Forest Service employees
• Identifying lessons learned and best practices
• Building relationships among people working on similar issues across distances
• Identifying common challenges and moving to team problem-solving

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Conservation Connect provides direct technical assistance and coaching in-person, on the phone and via email, offering information and referral on a variety of topics related to collaborative stewardship of National Forests and Grasslands.

Coaching is customized and service-oriented. Through one-on-one discussion, we help identify other needs and more effectively match groups with the resources appropriate to the issue. We strive to refer people to community-based collaborators or agency resource staff who offer specific expertise relevant to each request.

The National Forest Foundation has a long history of offering design, coordination, and facilitation services for workshops involving the Forest Service at the forest, state and regional level. We also assist with communications, website development, and registration as part of the package of services we offer when hosting workshops.

We have hosted or assisted with the following workshops:

• Pacific Southwest Regional Capacity Building Workshop, 2017, Sacramento, CA
• From Theory to Practice: Landscape-Level Restoration Principles to Implementing Priority Work on the Ground, 2016, Greenough, MT
• Montana Counties Forest Summit, 2016, Missoula, MT
• Collaborative Restoration Workshop, 2016, Denver, CO
• Southwestern Crown Collaborative Adaptive Management Workshop, 2015, Lubrecht Experimental Forest, MT
• Lynx, Wolverine, and Fisher Monitoring in the Rocky Mountains, 2015, Missoula, MT
• National Forest Management & Collaboration, 2014, Missoula, MT

Together with the National Partnership Office (NPO), the National Forest Foundation is working to create avenues for new partnerships with the Forest Service through the Partnerships on Every Forest (PEF) program. This program aims to empower every Forest Service employee to seize partnership opportunities that achieve cross-boundary conservation outcomes, embrace shared leadership by collaborating with diverse communities, and build inclusive relationships based on respect and trust.

Working directly with staff at local forest units, the PEF program strives to help identify barriers to developing meaningful, long-lasting partnerships, and to help facilitate pathways forward around those barriers.