Early implementation of the US Forest Service's shared stewardship strategy in the Eastern United States
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2021
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Zusammenfassung
In 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.
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38 pages