March 23, 2021

"Understanding Collaboration", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January 2021.

Collaboration supplements traditional public participation with more focused activities that will typically allow more meaningful contributions. Collaboration requires considerable time and effort for everyone and should be undertaken when the collaborative potential is high. Collaboration can build and maintain productive working relationships and trust and capacity, both internally and externally, well beyond the immediate issue or situation.

February 23, 2021

Peer Learning Session: Collaboration in a Virtual Setting (October 8, 2020)

During this peer learning session attendees will: - Hear lesson learned in virtual facilitation from NFF staff that have continued to facilitate collaboratives during COVID-19 - Gain an understanding of practices to implement for successful virtual engagement - Have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists

February 19, 2021

Peer Learning Session: Working with the National Forest Foundation (February 17, 2021)

Objectives During this peer learning session attendees will: •Gain an understanding of how NFF works across different programmatic areas - NFF Regional Offices, Conservation Connect, Tree Planting, and Conservation Awards •Learn about opportunities to partner with NFF and the benefits of doing so •Have opportunities for attendees to ask questions of the speaker and panelists Suggested Audience Forest Service employees and partners wanting to learn more about working with the National Forest Foundation

May 17, 2019

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization (CFLRP) All Hands web meeting, May 8, 2019

Participants in CFLRPs met with USDA Forest Service CFLRP leaders to discuss what Congress' reauthorization of the program means for existing CFLRPs and for new CFLRP applicants.

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January 28, 2019

Tools: Guidance for Collaboratives Seeking to Design a "Citizen's Alternative" for National Forest Projects (January 28, 2019)

This tool came out of interviews with members and technical advisors to the Panhandle Forest Collaborative and documents the process of a collaborative group designing a NEPA alternative for the Bottom Canyon forest project.

January 28, 2019

Tools: Best Practices for Forest Collaboratives Engaged in Litigation (January 28, 2019)

This document articulates lessons learned by the Panhandle Forest Collaborative as they went through the Tower/Grizzly Fire Salvage lawsuit.

January 28, 2019

Template: Project Updates for Forest Collaboratives (January 28, 2019)

This document explains the purpose of updating collaborative groups on the status of Forest projects, provides a template for doing so, and provides guidelines for what information to share.

January 28, 2019

Best Practices Guide: Taking Meeting Notes & Creating Meeting Records

This document explains the importance of a meeting record, shows you how to take good meeting notes and create useful meeting records, and provides a meeting record template.

November 28, 2018

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) "All Hands" Web Meeting (November 15, 2018)

The objectives of this web meeting were to: (1) Promote dialogue between those in the USDA Forest Service who work with CFLRPs both locally and nationally and local partners in CFLRPs; (2) Exchange important information between partners and the agency; and (3) Gather initial reflections on lessons learned through CFLRP and implications for collaborative restoration moving forward.

March 28, 2017

Collaborative Recreation Processes - Planning Examples

Recreation-focused collaboration can often expand expertise, resources, and community buy-in for recreation planning and management. This review provides short descriptions of and links to successful collaborative planning processes around forest recreation, illustrating how the processes were initiated, structured, and governed.

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"Understanding Collaboration", USDA Forest Service National Collaboration Cadre, January 2021.

Peer Learning Session: Collaboration in a Virtual Setting (October 8, 2020)

Peer Learning Session: Working with the National Forest Foundation (February 17, 2021)

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization (CFLRP) All Hands web meeting, May 8, 2019

Tools: Guidance for Collaboratives Seeking to Design a "Citizen's Alternative" for National Forest Projects (January 28, 2019)

Tools: Best Practices for Forest Collaboratives Engaged in Litigation (January 28, 2019)

Template: Project Updates for Forest Collaboratives (January 28, 2019)

Best Practices Guide: Taking Meeting Notes & Creating Meeting Records

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) "All Hands" Web Meeting (November 15, 2018)

Collaborative Recreation Processes - Planning Examples