Successes, challenges, and opportunities for collaborative accelerated restoration in Oregon's Blue Mountains
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Date
2018
Authors
Santo, Anna
Davis, Emily Jane
Huber-Stearns, Heidi
Ellison, Autumn
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
The USDA Forest Service (Forest Service) and
the Oregon Department of Forestry have
made targeted investments to increase the
pace, scale, and quality of forest restoration in the
Blue Mountains region of eastern Oregon (which
includes the Ochoco, Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-
Whitman National Forests). These accelerated
restoration strategies have been underway for more
than five years, but there has been little recent exploration
of how members of collaborative groups,
agency staff, and partner organizations currently
perceive the strategies, or how these efforts complement
or challenge the work of collaboratives. The
purpose of this study was to present some perceptions
and opinions of collaborative group members
and other key stakeholders regarding their
interpretations of accelerated restoration and the
roles and functioning of collaborative groups in the
Blue Mountains. For this assessment, we conducted
semi-structured phone or in-person interviews with
25 key informant stakeholders working on restoration
on the four national forests in the Blue Mountains
region.
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24 pages