Shared Stewardship Across Landscapes in the Northern Region

Across the Nation, managers and owners of forests face urgent challenges, including catastrophic wildfires, degraded watersheds, invasive species, drought, and epidemics of forest insects and disease. Fire seasons are getting longer, and wildfires are increasing in size and severity. Our communities and natural resources are increasingly at risk, and firefighter safety is being challenged more each year. Our treatments, and those of other federal, state and local land managers have remained largely uncoordinated and have not been at the right scale to match the immensity of the problem.

Shared Stewardship encourages us to work more deliberately with our neighbors and partners to expand forest restoration and treatments across boundaries, resulting in a more resilient landscape. This approach will identify and prioritize management needs and investments to achieve the landscape-level outcomes desired by all.

Shared Stewardship is an invitation to States, Tribes, local governments, partners and stakeholders to set landscape-scale priorities, leverage resources, and work across boundaries to improve forest and watershed conditions and protect communities.

Find out how the Forest Service is working with states in this cross-boundary approach to improve forest conditions across Montana, Idaho, and in North Dakota. 

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