Land manager experiences with resilience in national forest planning and management
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Date
2020
Authors
Coughlan, Michael R.
Ellison, Autumn
Abrams, Jesse
Huber-Stearns, Heidi
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
As the concept of resilience has gained importance as a guiding principle in land management objectives and policies in recent years, there has been some question about how the concept is operationalized in forest planning efforts. In this Joint Fire Science Program-funded research project, we surveyed 428 USDA Forest Service planners to get their perspectives on what resilience means, what it takes to plan for resilience, and the factors that complicate and encourage resilient landscape outcomes. Survey results illustrate how resilience is incorporated into planning and how well it aligns with planning processes and frameworks on a broader scale, including factors that enable or constrain managing for resilience.
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2 pages