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March 25, 2021

2020 Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: How People Are Working Across Agreements and Different Systems & Using Cross-Boundary Tools

As land managers shift their focus to landscape-scale treatments, the traditional model of developing a project proposal, funding, implementation, monitoring, and adaptation also must shift. The resources required for such a transition include both the tangible, like funding and research and the intangible, like place-based knowledge and local labor. These resources are numerous, but accessing them requires robust relationships and coordination among federal, state, local, tribal, and private partners for landscape-scale and cross-boundary success.

March 25, 2021

2020 Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: Promoting a Cultural Shift and Building Strategic Alignment

Government agencies, nonprofits, and private entities working in our nation’s forests recognize the problems afflicting them, including wildfires, climate change, and insects and disease. Many see Shared Stewardship, where federal, tribal, and state land managers work together to manage our nation’s forest at scale, as an essential tool to address these problems, but how do we get there together? For all entities involved, Shared Stewardship will require an organizational culture shift and strategic alignment with partners at scale.

March 25, 2021

Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: Measuring the Impact and Ensuring the Durability of Shared Stewardship & Science-based Tools to Implement Shared Stewardship

Land managers have limited resources to apply to land-scape-scale problems, so efficient utilization of those resources is critical. To maximize impact of limited resources in Shared Stewardship, partners must consider the scale of their work and the underlying values they are trying to manage. Once identified, partners should find ways to map their values in order to convey that information to their partners and the public. Early on, partners should develop a strategy for measuring and demonstrating the impact of their work.

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.

February 23, 2021

Peer Learning Session: Collaboration in a Virtual Setting (October 8, 2020)

During this peer learning session attendees will: - Hear lesson learned in virtual facilitation from NFF staff that have continued to facilitate collaboratives during COVID-19 - Gain an understanding of practices to implement for successful virtual engagement - Have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists

February 19, 2021

Peer Learning Session: Working with the National Forest Foundation (February 17, 2021)

Objectives During this peer learning session attendees will: •Gain an understanding of how NFF works across different programmatic areas - NFF Regional Offices, Conservation Connect, Tree Planting, and Conservation Awards •Learn about opportunities to partner with NFF and the benefits of doing so •Have opportunities for attendees to ask questions of the speaker and panelists Suggested Audience Forest Service employees and partners wanting to learn more about working with the National Forest Foundation

May 17, 2019

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization (CFLRP) All Hands web meeting, May 8, 2019

Participants in CFLRPs met with USDA Forest Service CFLRP leaders to discuss what Congress' reauthorization of the program means for existing CFLRPs and for new CFLRP applicants.

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January 28, 2019

Tools: Guidance for Collaboratives Seeking to Design a "Citizen's Alternative" for National Forest Projects (January 28, 2019)

This tool came out of interviews with members and technical advisors to the Panhandle Forest Collaborative and documents the process of a collaborative group designing a NEPA alternative for the Bottom Canyon forest project.

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.