Collaborative capacity and outcomes from Oregon's Federal Forest Restoration Program
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Date
2019
Authors
Davis, Emily Jane
Santo, Anna
White, Eric M.
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
Over the past two decades, numerous federal
forest collaboratives have emerged in the
state of Oregon. These groups function on
the basis of dialogue among diverse stakeholders
regarding their interests and values for forest management
priorities on a given area of public forest
land, and may offer input before and during the environmental
analysis required by the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA process) by making
recommendations for the use of retained receipts
from stewardship contracting, and/or by providing
zones of agreement, restoration principles, or
other statements about management issues beyond
the project scale. Although they generally do not
possess any formal decision-making authority, their
efforts are considered to be important in building
social agreement for programs of work on federal
forestlands.
This study analyzed the use and outcomes of the
State of Oregon’s investments in these forest collaborative
groups through Collaborative Capacity
Grants made by the Federal Forest Restoration
Program from state fiscal years 2014-2019.
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36 pages