Collaborative Restoration Workshop

Objective: Describe the constraints and complexities of planning at the landscape scale, and share lessons related to, for example, fire management, urban development, land fragmentation, wildlife management, and invasive species.

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• Provide effective approaches of integrating science into action
• Highlight examples of collaboration amongst multiple scientists to develop research that can be integrated into planning and implementation

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• Shed light on the legal and policy context for collaboration
• Clarify common terms, and distinguish between a collaborative effort and group
• Share insights, lessons, and experiences around the question of collaboration “ripeness,” and knowing when collaboration is the right tool to address conflict.

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• Provide information on the steps agency staff must take after a signed decision to prepare a project for implementation
• Provide examples of innovative technology and approaches to project layout for implementation

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Objectives: This session introduced data modeling tools and metrics that have been successful in monitoring large scale forest projects. Remote sensing data continues to improve and modelling tools are becoming increasingly accessible. Large-scale monitoring tools not only assist in identifying management opportunities and priorities, they also add transparency and shared knowledge to collaborative efforts.

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• Describe methods to determine where and how to select forest projects on the landscape (i.e., through five-year plans, IRR prioritization, and other mid-range planning efforts)
• Share advice, strategies, and lessons from engaging collaboratively in mid-range planning efforts

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• Provide examples of where science modeling and cost/benefit analysis guide restoration design and implementation
• Provide examples of how best to incorporate traditional knowledge into restoration planning

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• Share tools and resources available to aid collaborative groups and build collaborative capacity

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Objective: Provide an overview of stewardship authority and examples of how it can be used efficiently

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Objective: Discuss the following questions: What is adaptive management for federal land managers? How does adaptive management differ from research? How do non-federal partners successfully contribute to adaptive management on federal lands? How adaptive are our federal partners? What are limitations to adaptability when compared to private lands?

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• Discuss the 2012 Planning Rule framework, with a special focus on “collaboration”
• Share lessons from “early adopter” plan revision efforts
• Discuss how forests are integrating public values into the planning process

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• Provide examples of how to successfully engage partners and the public in science and planning
• Provide an example of how to incorporate citizen-based input to develop science questions

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Objective: From multiple perspectives, discuss the Front Range Roundtable’s story, including how the group formed, important considerations made by members while launching and nurturing the effort, the decision-making or governance structure, role of the Forest Service, overcoming challenges, and thoughts on the group’s future.

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Objective: Highlight examples of implementation across boundaries including examples of using Good Neighbor Authority and the Tribal Forest Protection Act

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• Discuss how to example social attitudes toward restoration using surveys and other tools
• Demonstrate how collaborative economic monitoring augments Forest Service monitoring

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Objective: Describe innovative, collaborative projects, including: Mill Creek A to Z Stewardship Project on the Colville National Forest, Bottom Canyon on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, and the North Shore Restoration Project on the Superior National Forest

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Objective: Provide case studies of applied ecological science from different biomes to look at efforts to integrate science and restoration action among groups with diverse social, economic, and personal values.

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Objective: From multiple perspectives, discuss the West Virginia Restoration Venture’s story, including how the stakeholders came together, important considerations made by members while launching and nurturing the effort, the decision-making structure, role of the Forest Service, overcoming challenges, and thoughts on the group’s future.

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• Review incentives and efforts to reduce the cost of biomass removal
• Provide examples of different scales of utilization of biomass

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• Highlight application of key indicators and metrics for ecosystem resiliency
• Discuss broad monitoring initiatives and emerging questions, struggles, and challenges that lie ahead, with a specific focus on resilience

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Objective: Introduce new, innovative, and emerging tools to prioritize and plan restoration projects, including:

• Integrated Landscape Analysis Program (ILAP)
• Policy mechanisms to support tool development in DOI, and the importance of cross-fertilization when it comes to innovation with collaborative restoration; and,
• Project prioritization process, in coordination with a local collaborative group, on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

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Objective: Discuss how climate information at management scales can aid in restoration decision-making

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Objective: Shed light on the challenges of collaboration from the Forest Service and partner perspectives, addressing questions such as: What does the Forest Service have to consider when working with a collaborative group or effort? From the Forest Service perspective, what are key components of a valuable, effective relationship with a collaborative group?

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Objective: Provide examples of innovative approaches to funding the implementation of restoration projects

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• Highlight key innovations from collaborative monitoring programs
• Demonstrate innovative integration of ecological, social and economic elements
• Share tools and techniques to integrate citizen science
• Provide examples of data sharing among partnering entities for federal landscapes

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