A Toolbox of Resources

This series of vignettes capture different ways that collaboratives have engaged with Forest Service management activities at different points along the planning and implementation timeline. Examples include collaborative support with surveys and data collection and improving sale economics through support of appraisal and sale design, and cross-boundary monitoring support. Author: Emery Cowan, Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Working together in a collaborative environment is more important than ever to both the Forest Service and the public. However, there is often a knowledge gap between the lead agency and stakeholders; each use their own language and have their own set of expectations. The National Forest Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of a new tool intended to bridge the gap in a clear, concise and usable way by identifying opportunities and presenting techniques for collaboration.