Search Results - A Toolbox of Resources - National Forest Foundation

January 28, 2019

Best Practices Guide: Taking Meeting Notes & Creating Meeting Records

This document explains the importance of a meeting record, shows you how to take good meeting notes and create useful meeting records, and provides a meeting record template.

November 28, 2018

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) "All Hands" Web Meeting (November 15, 2018)

The objectives of this web meeting were to: (1) Promote dialogue between those in the USDA Forest Service who work with CFLRPs both locally and nationally and local partners in CFLRPs; (2) Exchange important information between partners and the agency; and (3) Gather initial reflections on lessons learned through CFLRP and implications for collaborative restoration moving forward.

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 16, 2017

Best Practice: Collaborative Decision Rule Options

Consensus is the standard decision rule for collaborative groups. In this best practice, we explain consensus, and share other decision rule examples for your collaborative group to consider.

January 6, 2017

A Framework for Addressing Ethical Issues in Citizen Science

David B. Resnik, Kevin C. Elliott, Aubrey K. Miller, A framework for addressing ethical issues in citizen science, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 54, December 2015, Pages 475-481, ISSN 1462-9011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.05.008. [Keywords: Citizen science; Ethics; Public; Collaboration; Data collection; Community-based research]

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 3, 2017

Visions of Restoration in Fire-Adapted Forest Landscapes: Lessons from the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program

This paper explores the complex socio-ecological processes involved in developing a shared vision for collaborative restoration of fire-adapted forest landscapes. Authored by Lauren S. Urgenson et al., the study focused on six CFLRP efforts: the Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI), Selway-Middle Fork Clearwater Project, Deschutes Skyline Landscape, Southwest Jemez Mountains, Southwestern Crown of the Continent, and Tapash Sustainable Forest Collaborative. [Additional keywords: Collaboration, Ecological restoration, Desired conditions, CFLR, CFLRP, Fire-prone forests, Public lands management]

January 3, 2017

Searchable Trails Benefits Studies Library

Headwaters Economics offers its online Trails Benefits Library: a collection of 120 studies on the positive impacts of trails, especially in small or medium-sized towns and rural areas. The library is searchable by type of benefit (business impacts, property values, public health, trail use estimates, etc.), type of use (cycling, walking, hiking, mountain biking, etc.), year, and region. The library can help local leaders find existing research–conducted in communities similar to theirs—so that they have credible information and answers to questions regarding potential benefits from nearby trails and whether a project meets community priorities.

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.