Shared Stewardship Case Study: Utah
In May of 2019, Utah signed a Shared Stewardship agreement with USDA. Governor Gary Herbert and USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue agreed to focus on protecting at-risk communities and important water resources from the threat of unwanted fire.
Shortly thereafter, the state and Forest Service undertook a joint mapping project using a combination of…
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Questions and Answers
What is Shared Stewardship?Shared Stewardship is a collaborative approach to land management that emphasizes partnering with states, tribes, and other groups to identify joint priorities and to develop cross boundary strategies that make an impact at the right scale. To achieve this, the agency will leverage new science and new planning tools to ensure that we are doing the…
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Good Neighbor Authority
Our forests give us countless benefits: clean drinking water, millions of jobs, recreation opportunities, and more. Keeping these benefits requires forest management--and no one group can do it alone.Good Neighbor Authority allows the USDA Forest Service to enter into agreements with state forestry agencies to do the critical management work to keep our forests healthy and productive.Since Good…