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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.

October 7, 2015

Blue Mountain Forest Partners Adaptive Management Framework - Phase I Report

This report summarizes the results of nineteen interviews with Forest Service and Blue Mountains Forest Partners personnel involved in forest restoration on the Malheur National Forest. It is organized around three questions: 1. How can the Forest Service and BMFP better engage with one another to improve planning outcomes? 2. What sorts of agreements are most useful? 3. What information gaps, if filled, would improve NEPA planning? This report was written by Ann Moote with Mamut Consulting, and provided to the NFF by Sustainable Northwest.

October 2, 2015

Lessons Learned - Public Participation Component of the Rio Grande National Forest's Forest Plan Revision Process

The NFF supported public participation during the first year of plan revision on the Rio Grande National Forest in an effort to lay the foundation for long-term collaborative engagement. The NFF designed a public participation strategy and worked with Forest Service staff and a contracted facilitation firm to implement the strategy by hosting public meetings and facilitating online engagement during the assessment phase. The NFF helped the Rio Grande meet and exceed the public participation requirements of the 2012 Forest Planning Rule; however, the NFF and Rio Grande also learned many lessons associated with public outreach and involvement, meeting design and documentation, online and alternative engagement, and operations.

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 27, 2015

Best Practice: Maintaining an Effective Web Presence

This best practice document highlights the Grandfather Restoration Project Blog and the Deschutes Landscape Restoration Project Facebook page, and includes examples, how-to tips, and words of advice from experts involved with both projects.

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.

August 24, 2015

FACA Easy Button

Developed by the National Partnership Office (U.S. Forest Service), the FACA "Easy Button" provides key principles and practical advice for complying with the Federal Advisory Committee Act

August 24, 2015

An Assessment of Local Contractor Participation in the Southwestern Crown of the Continent CFLRP Project

Citation: MCIVER, C. 2013. AN ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL CONTRACTOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CROWN OF THE CONTINENT CFLRP PROJECT