A Toolbox of Resources

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups, Forest Service staff, and partners that are new to CFLRP and beginning their journey, and those that are CFLRP alumni. Please visit the CFLRP website for information about the Program. During this web meeting, attendees will: • Build your network by connecting with CFLRP alumni and other selected projects in the current cohort • Learn more about multi-party monitoring lessons learned and best practices • Understand the intent and background of the CFLRP Common Monitoring Strategy • Discuss the Core Monitoring Questions and next steps • Ask questions and see where you can learn more

The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups, Forest Service staff, and partners that are new to CFLRP and beginning their journey, and those that are CFLRP alumni. Please visit the CFLRP website for information about the Program. During this web meeting, attendees will: • Build your network by connecting with CFLRP alumni and other selected projects in the current cohort • Learn about the CFLRP Work Plan intent, requirements, and lessons learned • Enhance your understanding of how CFLRP funding can be used • Hear an overview of reporting and tracking processes • Ask questions and see where you can learn more

The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups, Forest Service staff, and partners that are new to CFLRP and beginning their journey, and those that are CFLRP alumni. Please see this press release for the latest funding announcement and project list and visit the CFLRP website for information about the Program. During this web meeting, attendees will: • Build your network by connecting with CFLRP alumni and other selected projects in the current cohort • Learn about the Program status, results, requirements, and lessons learned • See where you can learn more about CFLRP; and • Get a preview of next steps for the CFLR Program.

During this session, attendees received updates from the U.S. Forest Service on the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), learned about an approach for building and maintaining a solid foundation for collaborative efforts using the 4-Ps (Purpose, People, Process, and Products), heard from speakers about how CFLRP changed their collaborative efforts, and were able to ask questions and join in a discussion about the process of building and maintaining a solid foundation for collaboration. Speakers included Lindsay Buchanan, U.S. Forest Service Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Coordinator; Steve Daniels, Utah State University Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology Professor (ret.); Nils Christoffersen, Wallowa Resources Executive Director; Liz Johnson-Gebhardt, Priest Community Forest Connections Executive Director; and Nick Larson, U.S. Forest Service, National Forests of North Carolina, Grandfather District Ranger. Moderated by Ben Irey, National Forest Foundation Conservation Connect Program Manager.