Establish and maintain learning networks.
1. Expand The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) hub and spoke FAC Network.
2. Collaboratively fund workshops and peer learning opportunities.
3. Increase support for the work of the FAC Coalition and the increased effective use of Firewise Communities/USA; Ready, Set, GO!; CWPPs and the tools thereof to achieve outcomes.
4. Develop support (i.e., relase time, performance measures, budget) for state and federal agency personnel to provide technical support and work with integrated fire management collaboratives at the county, tribal territory and/or community level.
5. Negotiate inclusion of local collaborative integrated fire management outcomes in agency administrators' performance standards.
6. Enlist the participation of social science research and researchers in the adaptive management of this system, to move from shared learning to action.
7. Facilitate an information collection and dissemination system from pre-planning through outcomes and adaptation in an open source approach.
8. Provide a feedback loop from the local to national levels for adaptive management learning and use in the next Cohesive Strategy revision.
Short Term (0-2 years), Mid Term (2-4 years), & Long Term (>4 years)
Collaborators: FAC program, FAC Coalition, state and federal land and fire management agencies, tribes, NGOs, communities, local governments and fire departments, The Watershed Center. April 2014 - 8 original LN hubs. 10 more added this month.
