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March 23, 2021

"Understanding Collaboration", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January 2021.

Collaboration supplements traditional public participation with more focused activities that will typically allow more meaningful contributions. Collaboration requires considerable time and effort for everyone and should be undertaken when the collaborative potential is high. Collaboration can build and maintain productive working relationships and trust and capacity, both internally and externally, well beyond the immediate issue or situation.

January 28, 2019

Tools: Best Practices for Forest Collaboratives Engaged in Litigation (January 28, 2019)

This document articulates lessons learned by the Panhandle Forest Collaborative as they went through the Tower/Grizzly Fire Salvage lawsuit.

January 28, 2019

Template: Project Updates for Forest Collaboratives (January 28, 2019)

This document explains the purpose of updating collaborative groups on the status of Forest projects, provides a template for doing so, and provides guidelines for what information to share.

March 28, 2017

Collaborative Recreation Processes - Planning Examples

Recreation-focused collaboration can often expand expertise, resources, and community buy-in for recreation planning and management. This review provides short descriptions of and links to successful collaborative planning processes around forest recreation, illustrating how the processes were initiated, structured, and governed.

January 3, 2017

The Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI): The Role of Collaboration in Achieving Outcomes

This white paper describes the successes, challenges, and evolution of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) collaborative process as told by the stakeholders and U.S. Forest Service staff. The white paper was authored by Bryce Esch and Diane Vosick, and published by the Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University.

January 2, 2017

Branching Out: Engaging Forest Stakeholders through Collaborative Design (Interactive Tool)

The National Forest Foundation enlisted the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) to study stakeholder engagement in collaboratives that advise the United States Forest Service in the agency’s stewardship of National Forest System lands. The HNMCP team designed this tool, which conveners, facilitators, and collaborative members can use to identify collaborative design elements (e.g., caucusing) that can aid groups in achieving their work goals or overcoming barriers to stakeholder engagement.

January 2, 2017

Branching Out: Engaging Forest Stakeholders through Collaborative Design (White Paper)

The Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program team developed this white paper, which condenses research findings from a project to study stakeholder engagement in collaboratives that advise the United States Forest Service in the agency’s stewardship of National Forest System lands.

November 6, 2016

From Ideas to Action: A Guide to Funding and Authorities for Collaborative Forestry

This guidebook presents a menu of Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service tools and programs available to implement land stewardship on public and private lands, while providing insider tips and lessons learned. It is intended to increase the understanding of what can be used by community-based practitioners, federal land managers, and individuals to address ecological problems on our public and private lands. This guidebook was written, edited, and designed by the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC) Staff: Rebecca Shively, RVCC Intern, Karen Hardigg, RVCC Director, Rachel Plawecki, RVCC Associate

May 3, 2016

Collaborative Restoration Workshop: Working Toward Resilient Landscapes and Communities

The 2016 Collaborative Restoration Workshop was a forum for sharing innovative approaches to collaborative restoration, tools, and lessons about planning, implementing, and monitoring restoration efforts on and around National Forest System lands. Through a series of plenary sessions and five breakout tracks, participants engaged deeply in discussing the successes, challenges, and critical questions facing community partners, the U.S. Forest Service, and others working on collaborative efforts. Through the lenses of science, collaboration, planning, and monitoring, participants thought critically about amplifying restoration and working together towards success in the future.

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March 20, 2016

Science and collaborative decision-making: A case study of the Kew Study

This Case Study Brief was written by Emily Jane Davis, Meagan Nuss, and John R. Hughes and published by the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory, College of Forestry, Oregon State University. Diverse stakeholders and land management agencies are increasingly working together in “forest collaborative” groups to meet ecological, economic, and social goals on Oregon’s public lands. Many collaboratives focus on science-based ecosystem restoration. One such group is the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project (DCFP) in central Oregon, which seeks to increase forest resiliency and reduce wildfire risk on a 257,000-acre landscape.