May 9, 2016

Project Outreach Planner

The Project Outreach Planner (POP) is a free tool designed to help guide project teams as they determine what level of public outreach their project warrants and what tools and techniques will be most effective. The POP is designed to help any project team with collaboration and public outreach guidance, regardless of the subject matter. This tool was shared by the Langdon Group. www.langdongroupinc.com

May 3, 2016

Collaborative Restoration Workshop: Working Toward Resilient Landscapes and Communities

The 2016 Collaborative Restoration Workshop was a forum for sharing innovative approaches to collaborative restoration, tools, and lessons about planning, implementing, and monitoring restoration efforts on and around National Forest System lands. Through a series of plenary sessions and five breakout tracks, participants engaged deeply in discussing the successes, challenges, and critical questions facing community partners, the U.S. Forest Service, and others working on collaborative efforts. Through the lenses of science, collaboration, planning, and monitoring, participants thought critically about amplifying restoration and working together towards success in the future.

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March 20, 2016

Science and collaborative decision-making: A case study of the Kew Study

This Case Study Brief was written by Emily Jane Davis, Meagan Nuss, and John R. Hughes and published by the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory, College of Forestry, Oregon State University. Diverse stakeholders and land management agencies are increasingly working together in “forest collaborative” groups to meet ecological, economic, and social goals on Oregon’s public lands. Many collaboratives focus on science-based ecosystem restoration. One such group is the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project (DCFP) in central Oregon, which seeks to increase forest resiliency and reduce wildfire risk on a 257,000-acre landscape.

March 20, 2016

Formalizing decisions: A case study on collaborative zones of agreement

This Case Study Brief was written by Meagan Nuss and Emily Jane Davis and published by the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory, College of Forestry, Oregon State University.

March 20, 2016

The Roles of Leadership Committees in Forest Collaborative Capacity

This Case Study Brief was written by Emily Jane Davis and published by the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory, College of Forestry, Oregon State University. This brief reviews the leadership committees of five forest collaboratives working on similar issues in eastern Oregon. It is intended to help new and existing groups best utilize this important component of organizational capacity for success.

March 1, 2016

Monitoring Socioeconomics within Collaborative Forestry Projects: Trends in Practices and Challenges

This study, conducted by the Sierra Institute, seeks to understand how CFLRs are navigating the largely uncharted waters of CFLR socioeconomic monitoring. The Sierra Institute examined individual CFLR’s socioeconomic monitoring strategies to identify each program’s 1) overall status and progress; (2) primary party responsible for conducting monitoring; (3) indicators and measures used; (4) assessment methodology; (5) unit of analysis; and (6) challenges. The authors of this report are Camille Swezy, Allison Reeves Jolley, and Jonathan Kusel (Sierra Institute).

November 20, 2015

Building Collaborative Relationships: Elements of Success

Good relationships build trust and goodwill and provide a solid foundation for partners to work together towards mutual goals and objectives. Experience shows that successful collaborative groups and collaborative efforts often exhibit the following features. This tools will help evaluate a collaborative group and discusses successful collaboration.

October 7, 2015

Blue Mountain Forest Partners Adaptive Management Framework - Phase I Report

This report summarizes the results of nineteen interviews with Forest Service and Blue Mountains Forest Partners personnel involved in forest restoration on the Malheur National Forest. It is organized around three questions: 1. How can the Forest Service and BMFP better engage with one another to improve planning outcomes? 2. What sorts of agreements are most useful? 3. What information gaps, if filled, would improve NEPA planning? This report was written by Ann Moote with Mamut Consulting, and provided to the NFF by Sustainable Northwest.

October 2, 2015

Lessons Learned - Public Participation Component of the Rio Grande National Forest's Forest Plan Revision Process

The NFF supported public participation during the first year of plan revision on the Rio Grande National Forest in an effort to lay the foundation for long-term collaborative engagement. The NFF designed a public participation strategy and worked with Forest Service staff and a contracted facilitation firm to implement the strategy by hosting public meetings and facilitating online engagement during the assessment phase. The NFF helped the Rio Grande meet and exceed the public participation requirements of the 2012 Forest Planning Rule; however, the NFF and Rio Grande also learned many lessons associated with public outreach and involvement, meeting design and documentation, online and alternative engagement, and operations.

September 29, 2015

Best Practice: Collaborative Guiding Principles

This best practice guide focuses on guiding principles, which often capture early agreements made by a group, and serve as a filter through which to evaluate projects or activities. This guide includes excellent examples pulled out of operating protocols from the Blue Mountains Forest Partners, Amador-Calaveras Consensus Group, Panhandle Forest Collaborative, and Collaborative Trails.

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Project Outreach Planner

Collaborative Restoration Workshop: Working Toward Resilient Landscapes and Communities

Science and collaborative decision-making: A case study of the Kew Study

Formalizing decisions: A case study on collaborative zones of agreement

The Roles of Leadership Committees in Forest Collaborative Capacity

Monitoring Socioeconomics within Collaborative Forestry Projects: Trends in Practices and Challenges

Building Collaborative Relationships: Elements of Success

Blue Mountain Forest Partners Adaptive Management Framework - Phase I Report

Lessons Learned - Public Participation Component of the Rio Grande National Forest's Forest Plan Revision Process

Best Practice: Collaborative Guiding Principles