October 1, 2024

Toolkit for Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous Peoples in Conservation

This Toolkit from the Center for Collaborative Conservation is intended to support students, faculty, and conservation practitioners who desire to work towards meaningful and sustained engagement with Indigenous Peoples in conservation. We hope that this Toolkit provides an entry point for engaging in this process and creating positive change within each person’s sphere of influence. The audience that will most benefit from this Toolkit are those that desire to maximize their impact through a truly collaborative approach that includes shared learning, reciprocity, accountability, and a commitment to relationships.

October 1, 2024

Tribal Relations and Enhancing Co-Stewardship

This US Forest Service ArcGIS StoryMap provides a Tribal Partnerships map, a link to the Tribal Relations Action Plan, and other resources for strengthening relationships and collaboration with American Indian Tribes that have lived in the Pacific Northwest since time immemorial.

August 28, 2024

CFLRP: Sunset Project Reporting Workshop (August 27, 2024)

Peer Learning Session Objectives: - Bring the Sunset CFLRP projects (projects funded in 2010) and partners together to learn about the 15-year monitoring report requirements and guidance. - Learn about long term monitoring and best practices over 10+ years of collaborative forest landscape restoration implementation. - Share how CFLRP participation has changed the way you do work. Suggested Audience: This peer learning session is focused on projects sunsetting in 2024 (those first funded in 2010). The suggested audience for this meeting is participants in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects funded in 2010, from both the Forest Service and partner organizations.

August 28, 2024

CFLRP: Utilizing TFPA and 638 Contracting to Achieve Landscape Restoration Goals (July 30, 2024)

Peer Learning Session Objectives:  - Learn about the relationship between the USDA Forest Service and federally recognized Tribes. - Hear examples of how the Tribal Forest Protection Act (TFPA) and 638 Contracting Authority are being used in landscape-scale forest restoration. - Engage with CFLRP practitioners and partners working under the TFPA and/or using 638 Contracting Authority. Suggested Audience:  The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups and participants, US Forest Service staff, practitioners and planners of landscape-scale restoration work, and partners and alumni of CFLR Programs.

July 4, 2024

CFLRP All Hands Meeting: Demystifying Reporting Peer Learning Session (June 27, 2024)

Peer Learning Session Objectives: - Bring the CFLRP community together to explore efficient and effective annual reporting. - Gather reflections on leveraging data and engaging with partners to craft compelling stories about ongoing collaborative projects. - Provide national CFLR Program updates from Forest Service including reporting timeline and processes, and staffing updates. - Explore how annual reports are used to advocate for CFLRP at a national scale. 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.

July 4, 2024

CFLRP: Expanding Prescribed Fire Capacity & Implementation Peer Learning Session (May 29, 2024)

Peer Learning Session Objectives: - Understand the current context for prescribed fire capacity and implementation from a national perspective - Learn about tools and resources for engaging in prescribed fire - Engage with practitioners to learn more about common challenges and opportunities for increasing prescribed fire capacity and implementation. Suggested Audience: - The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups, Forest Service staff, and partners and alumni of CFLR Programs.

July 4, 2024

CFLRP: Exploring Collaborative Health, Resilience, and Governance Peer Learning Session (April 24, 2024)

Peer Learning Session Objectives: - Share high-level findings from the collaborative governance assessment administered by Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI). - Discuss assessment outcomes, including CFLRP collaborative health, function, resilience, and perceived outcomes of collaborative work. - Learn from projects that are working to make project-level assessments actionable. Suggested Audience: The suggested audience for this session includes collaborative groups, Forest Service staff, and partners and alumni of CFLR Programs.

May 20, 2024

Guidelines for Inclusive Meetings and Processes

Collaborative work on National Forests requires frequent meetings and touchpoints between diverse partners. Structuring these gatherings to make them inclusive to all attendees increases effectiveness and improves the outcomes of forest work. This document highlights best practices or inclusivity when planning convenings. Sometimes, incorporating all strategies may not be feasible or practical, so consider the ideas outlined s a starting point. For further depth on the concepts and tactics below, consult the resources and appendix at the end of this guide.

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.

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Toolkit for Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous Peoples in Conservation

Tribal Relations and Enhancing Co-Stewardship

CFLRP: Sunset Project Reporting Workshop (August 27, 2024)

CFLRP: Utilizing TFPA and 638 Contracting to Achieve Landscape Restoration Goals (July 30, 2024)

CFLRP All Hands Meeting: Demystifying Reporting Peer Learning Session (June 27, 2024)

CFLRP: Expanding Prescribed Fire Capacity & Implementation Peer Learning Session (May 29, 2024)

CFLRP: Exploring Collaborative Health, Resilience, and Governance Peer Learning Session (April 24, 2024)

Guidelines for Inclusive Meetings and Processes

What Does Collaborative Capacity Make Possible?

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