A Toolbox of Resources

Citation: Spies, T. A., E. M. White, J. D. Kline, A. P. Fischer, A. Ager, J. Bailey, J. Bolte, J. Koch, E. Platt, C. S. Olsen, D. Jacobs, B. Shindler, M. M. Steen-Adams, and R. Hammer. 2014. Examining fire-prone forest landscapes as coupled human and natural systems. Ecology and Society 19(3): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06584-190309

SCHULTZ, C., COELHO, D., AND BEAM R. 2014. DESIGN AND GOVERNANCE OF MULTIPARTY MONITORING UNDER THE USDA FOREST SERVICE'S COLLABORATIVE FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION PROGRAM. JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

SCHULTZ, C., JEDD, T., AND BEAM, R. 2012. THE COLLABORATIVE FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION PROGRAM: A HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF THE FIRST PROJECTS. JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

Citation: Dubay, Tayloe and Egan, Dave and Hjerpe, Evan E. and Selig, Wendy and Brewer, Dave and Coelho, Dana and Wurtzebach, Zachary and Schultz, Courtney and Waltz, Amy E.M. (2013). Breaking barriers, Building bridges: Collaborative forest landscape restoration handbook. Northern Arizona University.

Citation: Butler, W. H. (2013). Collaboration at Arm's Length?: Navigating Agency Engagement in Landscape-Scale Ecological Restoration Collaboratives. Journal of Forestry 111 (6): 395-403.

Citation: R. Patrick Bixler and Brian Kittler. 2015. Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration: A Meta‐Analysis of Existing Research on the CFLR Program. Pinchot Institute for Conservation

The NFF developed this "quick guide" to stewardship contracting and agreements in 2014 to support peer learning.

With the enactment of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, Forest Landscape Restoration Act, and similar laws and policies, collaboration — an open and inclusive process through which two or more individuals or organizations work together to address a problem/issue that concerns them all and that no one of them is likely to be able to resolve alone — has gained increasing popularity as a way to resolve natural resource management challenges. With this increased engagement in the project development process, collaborative groups are beginning to see the fruits of their work from start to finish: landscape prioritization, project area identification, field trips, prescription development, proposals for action, project implementation, and monitoring of results are all now part of the work of collaborative groups. In this White Paper, published by the Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University, Susan Jane Brown provides information on administrative and legal review opportunities for collaborative groups.

Measuring the social and economic impacts of collaborative stewardship work is extremely important to community-based groups and their constituents. In this session, the Ecosystem Workforce Program and the New Mexico Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute presented reports and tools they each recently released to assist community groups identify and measure socioeconomic indicators. In addition, Salmon Valley Stewardship described their efforts to monitor the economic impact of their work, and the exciting results they can now report.

The Region 6 Office of the U.S. Forest Service contracted with Sustainable Northwest to develop the Guidebook in response to requests from collaborative stewardship groups for specific information about multiparty monitoring approaches in the Pacific Northwest. Collaborative support and assistance for the Guidebook was provided by Oregon Solutions and the National Forest Foundation.