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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.
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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.
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February 4, 2022

Peer Learning Session: US Forest Service Partnership Authorities and Agreements (2/3/2022)
During this peer learning session attendees will: • Gain an understanding of recent changes to the Service First authority; • Hear overviews and examples of partnership authorities and agreements including Service First Authority, Good Neighbor Authority, Stewardship Agreements, and Shared Stewardship; and • Have an opportunity to ask questions of the speakers
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December 16, 2021

Southern California Forest Fund: Powerhouse Fire
This is a test tool entry to evaluate the search capabilities. The 2013 Powerhouse Fire burned over 30,000 acres and destroyed 24 homes. In the wake of the wildfire, the landscape began to change from oak and conifer forest to chaparral and invasive weed cover. In response, NFF and the Forest Service worked together with local partners to plant over 60,000 trees in the Angeles National Forest during the winter and early spring of 2021.
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October 21, 2021

Building & Maintaining a Solid Foundation for Collaboration Peer Learning Session (October 7, 2021)
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.
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July 2, 2021

Peer Learning Session: Partnerships on Every Forest, Bighorn National Forest (June 30, 2021)
During this peer learning session participants will: -Gain an understanding of the Partnerships on Every Forest (PEF) program and how it works to address partnership challenges, -Hear a case study of the PEF program from the Bighorn National Forest, -Learn how to engage in the PEF program, and -Have opportunities for to ask questions of the speaker and panelists.
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April 2, 2021

"Maintaining the Foundation of Collaborative Groups", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, April 2019
Are participants losing interest in your collaborative effort? Has the purpose of your collaboration become unclear? Is your collaborative no longer making sufficient progress? Does your collaborative lack a sense of accomplishment? Has their been an increase in dissent among participants? Is collaboration just not fun anymore? If you answered, "Yes" to any of these questions then you should have a look at this document from the USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre.
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April 2, 2021

"Building a Solid Foundation for Collaborative Efforts", USDA National Collaboration Cadre, July 2019
Whether building, evaluating, or rebuilding a collaborative effort, all require thoughtful consideration to what people will accomplish and how they will do it. This document guides collaboratives through the process of constructing or reconstructing a solid foundation for collaboration based on the collaborative's purposes, people, process, and products.
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April 2, 2021

"Aligning Expectations for Effective Collaborative Work", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January, 2021
In both professional and personal situations, people develop expectations about their interactions with others. Whether creating a business partnership, joining a civic organization, or getting married, people anticipate and expect certain behaviors and outcomes. Multi-party collaborative efforts involving public lands management is no different. Finding ways to develop, communicate, and maintain alignment of the participants' expectations in collaborative efforts is critical to a collaborative group's vitality and effectiveness.
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March 25, 2021

2020 Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: Promoting a Cultural Shift and Building Strategic Alignment
Government agencies, nonprofits, and private entities working in our nation’s forests recognize the problems afflicting them, including wildfires, climate change, and insects and disease. Many see Shared Stewardship, where federal, tribal, and state land managers work together to manage our nation’s forest at scale, as an essential tool to address these problems, but how do we get there together? For all entities involved, Shared Stewardship will require an organizational culture shift and strategic alignment with partners at scale.
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