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.

April 16, 2021

County Governments and the USDA Forest Service: A Guidebook for Working Together

This guide is the result of collaboration between the National Association of Counties (NACo) and the USDA Forest Service. NACo staff and Forest Service employees produced this guide for local elected officials and Forest Service employees to learn about each other's organization and behaviors that foster strong working relationships.

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.

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.

April 2, 2021

"Collaboration as a Pursuit of Progress", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January 2021

How can you tell if a collaborative effort is working? People often ask if a collaboration has succeeded, but perhaps it is better to ask what progress is being made by a collaborative. From there, progress can be broken down into progress on substance, processes, and relationships.

April 2, 2021

"Interest-Based Problem Solving", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January 2021

When the parties in a natural resource collaboration focus on their positions and overlook their interests the entire collaborative process may slow or shut down. Searching for common ground can seem impossible when people take extreme and mutually exclusive positions. Moving from positions to interests provides the seedbed for innovative ideas that move land management forward in creative ways that sometimes none of the participants had foreseen.

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.

March 25, 2021

2020 Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: How People Are Working Across Agreements and Different Systems & Using Cross-Boundary Tools

As land managers shift their focus to landscape-scale treatments, the traditional model of developing a project proposal, funding, implementation, monitoring, and adaptation also must shift. The resources required for such a transition include both the tangible, like funding and research and the intangible, like place-based knowledge and local labor. These resources are numerous, but accessing them requires robust relationships and coordination among federal, state, local, tribal, and private partners for landscape-scale and cross-boundary success.

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.

March 25, 2021

Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: Measuring the Impact and Ensuring the Durability of Shared Stewardship & Science-based Tools to Implement Shared Stewardship

Land managers have limited resources to apply to land-scape-scale problems, so efficient utilization of those resources is critical. To maximize impact of limited resources in Shared Stewardship, partners must consider the scale of their work and the underlying values they are trying to manage. Once identified, partners should find ways to map their values in order to convey that information to their partners and the public. Early on, partners should develop a strategy for measuring and demonstrating the impact of their work.

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Peer Learning Session: Partnerships on Every Forest, Bighorn National Forest (June 30, 2021)

County Governments and the USDA Forest Service: A Guidebook for Working Together

"Maintaining the Foundation of Collaborative Groups", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, April 2019

"Building a Solid Foundation for Collaborative Efforts", USDA National Collaboration Cadre, July 2019

"Collaboration as a Pursuit of Progress", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January 2021

"Interest-Based Problem Solving", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January 2021

"Aligning Expectations for Effective Collaborative Work", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January, 2021

2020 Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: How People Are Working Across Agreements and Different Systems & Using Cross-Boundary Tools

2020 Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: Promoting a Cultural Shift and Building Strategic Alignment

Shared Stewardship Peer Learning Sessions Lessons Learned: Measuring the Impact and Ensuring the Durability of Shared Stewardship & Science-based Tools to Implement Shared Stewardship