Shared Stewardship
This factsheet shares a broad overview of the Forest Service's Shared Stewardship goals and accomplishments and invites States, Tribes, and other partners to work with the agency to address wildfire risk, insect and disease outbreaks, and other landscape-level challenges that affect the health and productivity of American forests.
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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration
Partners from rural areas in Colorado and New Mexico gather in a field near Chama, New Mexico, during a field trip about the Rio Chama restoration project. The work is across the Santa Fe, Carson, Rio Grande, and San Juan national forests and connected lands. The partnership works on the…
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Collaboration & Public Involvement - Tribal Relations
At the historic White House Tribal Nations Conference, President Obama signed a Memorandum on Tribal Consultation, pronouncing tribal consultation "a critical ingredient of a sound and productive Federal-tribal relationship." In keeping with this directive, and with our agency’s policies, we invited Tribes to participate in the collaborative process for the development of a new National Forest…
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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Dashboard
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) was first authorized by Congress in 2009 to advance collaborative, landscape-scale approaches to restoration for multiple outcomes – reducing wildfire risk, enhancing forest and watershed health, and providing benefits to local communities. CFLRP Project Landscapes are selected by the Secretary of Agriculture through a competitive…
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New story map highlights Forest Service, tribal collaboration
The USDA Forest Service Eastern Region story map highlights Tribal Forest Protection Act Projects in the Lake States. (Story map screenshot)
WISCONSIN—The USDA Forest Service Eastern Region has published a new story map to showcase the collaborative work done to protect tribal and Forest…
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Seeing, listening, collaborating: What it takes to revise Alaska forest plan
Deputy Forest Supervisor Barb Miranda, Tongass National Forest, is overseeing the revision of the Tongass Forest Plan. (Photo courtesy Bethany Goodrich, Sustainable Southeast Partnership)
ALASKA—What has changed in southeast Alaska and Tongass National Forest over more than 25 years? That is the driving…