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The National Forest Foundation is working closely with the National Partnership Office to facilitate partnership advancement on regions and forests across the country.
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Together with the National Partnership Office (NPO), the National Forest Foundation is working to create strategies to strengthen 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 regional and 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.
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In 2023-2024 the NFF and the NPO worked with the Mt. Hood National Forest to conduct a partnership assessment. The report, presentation, and meeting recording below summarize the findings of the assessment.
In 2023-2024 the NFF and NPO worked with the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area to conduct a partnership assessment. The report and presentation below summarize the findings of the assessment.
In 2023-2024 the NFF and NPO worked with the Wayne National Forest to conduct a partnership assessment. The report and presentation below summarize the findings of this assessment.
In 2022-2023 the NFF and the NPO worked with the Shasta-Trinity National Forest to conduct a partnership assessment. The report below summarizes the findings of this assessment.
In 2021-2022 the NFF and the NPO worked with the Flathead National Forest to conduct a partnership assessment. The report below summarizes the findings of this assessment.
The Bighorn National Forest acted as the "pilot" forest for the PEF program in 2020. Working closely with Bighorn National Forest staff, the NFF and NPO conducted a partnership assessment to identify the strengths, challenges, and opportunities that exist for partnerships on the Forest. From this assessment, we developed a report, a presentation, and a Partnership Opportunity Guide to help the Bighorn better communicate their priority projects out to partners.
We created this Resource Guide to share various tools and resources that can be helpful when partnering with the Forest Service.
Forest Service Vision for Partnerships in the 21st Century (10/26/2021)
Partnerships on Every Forest: Bighorn National Forest (6/30/2021)
Working with the National Forest Foundation (2/17/2021)
Utilizing 638 for Successful Tribal Relations (12/18/2020)
Successful Partnerships of the Last Decade (09/03/2020)
Master Agreements (05/28/2020)
Emily Jochem, Partnership Coordinator, at 406.946.1754 or [email protected]