Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Training
Peer Learning Sessions
The Forest Service has contracted with the National Forest Foundation to coordinate and host a series of peer learning sessions about Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration issues. The purpose of the peer learning sessions is to provide an opportunity for cross-learning, informal discussion, and sharing of information amongst collaborators and the Forest Service. The recordings are provided so those unable to participate in the session directly can hear the discussion. For official guidance and direction for Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration, please refer to the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program FAQs.
Recorded Sessions
- Peer Learning Session #1: Reporting Requirements - December 1, 2010 (video and audio recording on National Forest Foundation website)
- Peer Learning Session #2: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Multiparty Monitoring - January 12, 2011 (audio recording) (.mp3, 32 MB)
- Peer Learning Session #3: Continuing Collaboration - February 15, 2011 (video and audio recording on the National Forest Foundation website)
- Peer Learning Session #4: Implementation Issues - March 15, 2011 (PDF, 7.9 MB)
- Peer Learning Session #5: Implementation Issues 2 - April 19, 2011
- Peer Learning Session #6: R-CAT and Fire Treatment Costs - February 9, 2012 - Unfortunately, the recording for this session is no longer available. The PowerPoint presentation used in the session is available for your review:
- Peer Learning Session #7: Reporting in the Databases of Record - March 21, 2012
- Peer Learning Session #8: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Successes and Lessons Learned - March 29, 2012
- Peer Learning Session #9: Monitoring and the Landscape Monitoring Network - April 12, 2012
- Peer Learning Session #10: Attracting Match and Leverage to Support Restoration - May 21, 2012
- Peer Learning Session #11: Implementation and Community Benefit- July 12, 2012 - Unfortunately there was a technical problem with the recording for this session. The PowerPoint presentations used in the session are available for your review:
- Peer Learning Session #12: Maintaining Collaboration & Coordinating Different Entities on Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Projects – November 9, 2012
Landscape Monitoring Network Peer Learning Sessions
The following webinars were put on by the Landscape Monitoring Network in partnership with the National Forest Foundation.
- Remote Sensing Tools for Landscape Restoration: It's Not Just Searching in the Couch Cushions, November 1, 2012
- Developing Monitoring Questions for Landscape-Scale Restoration Projects, June 21, 2012
Partner Publications
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Handbook (PDF, 8.1 MB)
Foreword by W. Wallace Covington
Edited by Dave Egan and Tayloe Dubay
Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University
Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Handbook explores the various barriers to landscape-scale, collaborative forest restoration, and the innovative ways to bridge those barriers. The handbook, which is published by the Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI), features a foreword by Dr. W. Wallace Covington, chapters about collaboration, ecological economics, planning and NEPA development, multi-party monitoring, implementation, and adaptive management all within the context of landscape-scale forest restoration projects across the American West. It also chronicles pioneering ventures in large-scale, collaborative forest restoration and the emerging process that stakeholders, agencies, environmental groups, Native American tribes, and others have begun under the auspices of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program and other collaborative efforts. While the process is an evolving one, people with diverse interests continue to work collectively under a shared goal: to restore health and resiliency to the nation's forested landscapes, while protecting people, communities, and enhancing local and regional economies.
Closing the Feedback Loop: Evaluation and Adaptation in Collaborative Resource Management (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Publication date: May 2013
Author: Ann Moote, Mamut Consulting
The sourcebook draws from nine collaborative resource groups from across the country and shows how these groups are using strategies and tools to evaluate their work and adapt plans and management actions. Organizational and social learning, evaluation, and adaptive management concepts informed the selection of evaluation tools and change mechanisms for collaborative groups to consider and use.