Understanding stakeholder experiences with long-term, landscape-scale stewardship contracting in the Pacific Northwest
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Date
2021
Authors
Davis, Emily Jane
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
Stewardship end results contracting is a set
of authorities that allows the USDA Forest
Service to implement forest restoration activities
in new and flexible ways through contracts
and agreements. These authorities provide several
means to pursue restoration and community goals
that depart from prior guidance and requirements
for timber sales and service contracts. Some projects
have been purposefully designed as long-term
and landscape-scale through ten-year arrangements
that encompass relatively large spatial areas and
seek durable, significant restoration and community
economic objectives. The implementation of large
stewardship projects is an evolving area of practice
for the Forest Service and its partners. As such, it
particularly presents opportunities and challenges
for learning. In 2016, the Regional Forester of Region
6 (Pacific Northwest states of Washington and
Oregon) recognized this, and requested an internal
Functional Assistance Team review of the five large
projects in this region to help inform their effective
administration. However, that review primarily
focused on the experiences and insights of agency
personnel. In response to the need for additional
perspectives, this study obtained and synthesized
partner viewpoints from 21 key informants closely
involved in the implementation of the five large
projects through qualitative interviews and document
review. Findings pertain to common trends,
challenges, and lessons learned from the practice
of long-term, large-scale stewardship contracting
from non-agency stakeholder viewpoints. The confidentiality
of participants is protected by a focus
on common themes and an in-depth case study approach
is not used.
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46 pages