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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.

March 20, 2016

Formalizing decisions: A case study on collaborative zones of agreement

This Case Study Brief was written by Meagan Nuss and Emily Jane Davis and published by the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory, College of Forestry, Oregon State University.

March 20, 2016

The Roles of Leadership Committees in Forest Collaborative Capacity

This Case Study Brief was written by Emily Jane Davis and published by the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory, College of Forestry, Oregon State University. This brief reviews the leadership committees of five forest collaboratives working on similar issues in eastern Oregon. It is intended to help new and existing groups best utilize this important component of organizational capacity for success.

March 1, 2016

Monitoring Socioeconomics within Collaborative Forestry Projects: Trends in Practices and Challenges

This study, conducted by the Sierra Institute, seeks to understand how CFLRs are navigating the largely uncharted waters of CFLR socioeconomic monitoring. The Sierra Institute examined individual CFLR’s socioeconomic monitoring strategies to identify each program’s 1) overall status and progress; (2) primary party responsible for conducting monitoring; (3) indicators and measures used; (4) assessment methodology; (5) unit of analysis; and (6) challenges. The authors of this report are Camille Swezy, Allison Reeves Jolley, and Jonathan Kusel (Sierra Institute).

November 20, 2015

Building Collaborative Relationships: Elements of Success

Good relationships build trust and goodwill and provide a solid foundation for partners to work together towards mutual goals and objectives. Experience shows that successful collaborative groups and collaborative efforts often exhibit the following features. This tools will help evaluate a collaborative group and discusses successful collaboration.

October 7, 2015

Best Practice: Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition Forest Restoration and Conservation Guidelines

Collaborative groups are increasingly developing creative tools to streamline collaborative processes and work more efficiently with the U.S. Forest Service. This best practice includes Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition (NEWFC) Guidelines and an example of how the guidelines have informed Colville National Forest project development.

September 29, 2015

Best Practice: Collaborative Guiding Principles

This best practice guide focuses on guiding principles, which often capture early agreements made by a group, and serve as a filter through which to evaluate projects or activities. This guide includes excellent examples pulled out of operating protocols from the Blue Mountains Forest Partners, Amador-Calaveras Consensus Group, Panhandle Forest Collaborative, and Collaborative Trails.

September 21, 2015

Best Practice: Building Local Support & Credibility

Developing a strategy and supporting documents can help tell a collaborative group’s story and build public support -- In 2014 the Elkhorn Restoration Committee, which focuses on the Elkhorn Mountain wildlife management area of the Helena and Beaverhead‐Deerlodge National Forests in Montana, developed a communication strategy members call the Inform, Involve, and Educate Outreach Program. The strategy was developed to build public support and credibility for the group, and also to help recruit new members. The Restoration Committee hopes to share its story, accomplishments, and program of work with members of local government, sportsmenʹs organizations, community groups, schools, businesses, and private landowners.

August 24, 2015

A Quick Guide for Incorporating Collaboration Into the Watershed Condition Framework (WCF)

Produced by the University of Oregon Ecosystem Workshop Program, this quick guide provides strategies for collaborating at each of the steps in the WCF.