Background and additional resources
Formal Shared Stewardship Agreements
- Alabama Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Illinois Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Ohio Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Chesapeake Bay Watershed Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Nebraska Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Wyoming Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Florida Shared Stewardship Agreement
- California Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Texas Shared Stewardship Agreement
- The Northeast-Midwest State Foresters Alliance Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Arizona Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Hawai’I Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Georgia Shared Stewardship Agreement
- Massachusetts Shared Stewardship Framework
- Nevada Agreement for Shared Stewardship
- New Mexico Agreement for Shared Stewardship
- Colorado Agreement for Shared Stewardship
- North Carolina Agreement for Shared Stewardship
- Arkansas Agreement for Shared Stewardship
- Oregon State Memorandum of Understanding
- Utah Agreement for Shared Stewardship
- Washington State Memorandum of Understanding
- Montana Shared Stewardship Leaders Intent
- Idaho Agreement for Shared Stewardship
- Western Governors’ Association USDA MOU
Tools for Implementing Shared Stewardship
- Conservation Finance Program
- Good Neighbor Authority – A USDA Forest Service public website and nation-wide project map viewer.
- Stewardship End Result Contracting – A public Forest Service website on 20-year stewardship agreements.
- New categorical exclusions – An internal Forest Service website on NEPA procedures and directives.
- Secure Rural Schools Act – The agency’s public website on SRS.
- Wildfire Risk to Communities – An interactive web site to help community planners and fire managers assess and reduce risk to homes, businesses and other valued resources.
- Rural Voices For Conservation Coalition (RVCC) From Ideas to Action Guidebook - A guide for funding and authorities for collaborative restoration
Background
- Toward Shared Stewardship across Landscapes: An Outcome-based Investment Strategy
- Story of Conservation and Our Place In It (Internal)
- USDA Forest Service Partnership Resource Center – A public website with links to tools and resources to initiate and develop partnerships.
- Executive Order on Active Management – A December 2018 EO on Promoting Active Management of America’s Forests, Rangelands, and other Federal Lands.
- 2018 Farm Bill
- 2014 Farm Bill
- 2018 Omnibus Bill
- National Association of State Foresters
- National Forest Foundation Shared Stewardship webinar.