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April 8, 2024

What Does Collaborative Capacity Make Possible?

This framework illustrates the collaborative capacity elements that are necessary and fundable, as well as a list of activities they enable. We share the reasons why consistent, long-term investment in these elements is needed. We emphasize the contextual factors that affect collaboration so that these investments are made in the right places, at the right times, and in the right ways to achieve their potential. We end with a set of recommendations directed toward practitioners, funders, and researchers that will help align their efforts, making them more effective, efficient, and able to achieve durable outcomes.

April 4, 2024

CFLRP: Landscape Prioritization Peer Learning Session (March 26, 2024)

Peer Learning Session Objectives: - Increase understanding of available landscape prioritization and planning tools and approaches for completing work in large landscapes. - Hear from practitioners across CFLR and Wildfire Crisis Strategy landscapes about their experiences using some of these tools and approaches including best practices and lessons learned. - Bring together communities of practice from CFLRP Projects, Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscapes, and other cross-boundary practitioners. Suggested Audience: The suggested audience for this session includes practitioners from across the CFLRP and WCS Landscapes and other cross-boundary restoration efforts, including USDA Forest Service staff, partners, and collaborators.

April 4, 2024

CFLRP: All-Hands Web Meeting (February 22, 2024)

Peer Learning Session Objectives: - Bring the CFLRP community together for shared learning activities around key topics. - Gather reflections on lessons learned through CFLRP and implications for collaborative restoration moving forward. - Provide national CFLR Program updates from the Forest Service, including funding, staffing, and reporting results. Suggested Audience: The suggested audience for this peer learning session is current and alumni participants in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program from both the Forest Service and partner organizations. Anyone is welcome to join this session, but please note that the focus will be on the CFLR Program rather than collaborative restoration more broadly.

January 18, 2024

CFLRP: Adaptive Management Peer Learning Session (January 12, 2024)

Peer Learning Session Objectives: - Explore adaptive management examples and concepts, focusing in particular on how monitoring informs decision-making. - Hear experiences and perspectives from managers, adaptive management experts, and others. - Engage participants to share their own examples of successes and challenges in translating monitoring into decision-making and adaptive management. Suggested Audience : The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups, Forest Service staff, and partners and alumni of CFLR Programs. 

December 4, 2023

CFLRP: Collaborative Dynamics Peer Learning Session (November 9, 2023)

Session objectives: - Learn about considerations for standing up and maintaining effective collaborative processes over time. - Provide practical tools, discuss common questions and challenges, and share experiences to help groups navigate collaborative process dynamics. - Share information and learn from one another as a community of practice for collaborative forest stewardship. The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups, Forest Service staff, and partners and alumni of CFLR Programs.

September 22, 2023

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) Peer Learning Series Kickoff (September 13, 2023)

During this peer learning session, participants will learn more about the CFLR Program, including background and updates; hear from three different CFLRPs and engage in a group discussion around current successes, challenges, opportunities, and needs; (re)connect with current and former CFLRP colleagues, including U.S. Forest Service staff, researchers, and partners; and have the opportunity to inform future peer learning session topics around collaborative forest management.

February 24, 2023

Governance Strategies for Large Landscape Partnerships in the West

The increasing complexity of environmental issues, as well as a growing emphasis on landscape-scale policy tools, has spurred the emergence of “all-lands” partnerships. These partnerships work at large, regional scales to address issues that span land ownerships and encompass multiple watersheds, firesheds, communities, projects, and/or existing collaborative groups. This document profiles three all-lands partnerships in the West, with a focus on their organizational structures, processes for working with multiple local-scale partners and groups, strategies for large landscape coordination, and key governance documents.

February 24, 2023

Innovative Collaborative Engagement in National Forest Management in the Pacific Northwest

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.

September 16, 2022

Forest Service Project Planning to Implementation

This resource was developed and published by the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC). The purpose of this guidebook is to provide collaborative organizations or groups with information about the Forest Service’s project planning and implementation processes.

May 6, 2022

Peer Learning Session: Adapting to Staffing Transitions (5/5/2022)

During this peer learning session, attendees will: 1. Hear remarks from Jacqueline Emanuel, Director, National Partnership Office of the U.S. Forest Service on staffing transitions and efforts to build staffing capacity; 2. Have an opportunity to ask questions; 3. Participate in breakout room discussions regarding the challenges of staffing transitions and helpful strategies to overcome those challenges; and 4. From breakout room report-outs, learn new tactics for adjusting to staffing transitions. Suggested Audience: Forest Service employees and partners wanting to engage in meaningful conversation and learn about managing times of staffing transition.