Expand use of collaborative landscape restoration efforts.
1. Support and expand existing landscape treatment programs that integrate partnership interactions among federal, state, tribal and local agencies, and NGO collaborators.
2. Develop and distribute information about Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC), Fire Learning Network (FLN), and the requirements to follow existing environmental protection laws.
3. Develop and share examples of successes where this process is working.
Katie Lighthall
541-408-3048
Klighthall@bendcable.com
Short Term (0-2 years) & Mid Term (2-4 years)
Other collaborators: NRCS Supp: USFS-CFLRP review and monitor expansion; DOI establish review and monitor program. Examples of landscape treatment programs that integrate partnerships interactions include but are not limited to, the US Forest Service, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Plan; DOI's Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, a network of public-private partnerships that provide shared science to ensure that sustainability of America's land, water, wildlife and cultural resources, with the BLM using a landscape approach with funding through the Healthy Landscape Initiative and other programs; and The Nature Conservancy's Fire Learning Network that catalyze the restoration of fire dependent ecosystems through landscape scale collaborative planning, regional capacity building, and national coordination. WRSC actively supports collaborative efforts: So far, Deschutes Collaborative Forest Restoration Project, Tapash Collaborative, Chumstick Collaborative Coalition and Wallowa Collaborative.
