Kee, Destin D.Aldworth, TylerAbrams, JesseKooistra, ChadSchultz, Courtney A.Huber-Stearns, Heidi2023-01-042023-01-042021https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2790338 pagesIn 2018, in response to Congress’ calls for a renewed approach to forest management, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced the Shared Stewardship Strategy - an initiative aimed at increasing the pace and scale of cross-boundary forest management activities (USFS, 2018). In 2019, our team started conducting independent research through semi-structured interviews on the implementation and development of Shared Stewardship efforts in the western U.S. (Phase 1, detailed in Kooistra et al., 2021b). In late 2020, we began investigating states east of the Rocky Mountains (Phase 2), which we refer to herein for ease as “eastern” or “Phase 2” states, although our study included states as far west as Nebraska. This Executive Summary provides an overview of our key findings across Phase 2 states (also see Table A) and our observations on the future of Shared Stewardship.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USForest managementForest landscape managementUnited States. Forest ServiceWorking Paper