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Tracking progress : the monitoring process used in collaborative forest landscape restoration projects in the Pacific Northwest
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Demeo, Thomas E. Markus, Amy Bormann, Bernard T. Leingang, Jodi |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | About the Northwest Fire Science Consortium The Northwest Fire Science Consortium is part of a national network of consortia established by the Joint Fire Science Program to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and adoption of wildland fire science information by federal, tribal, state, local, and private stakeholders. The geographic region of the NW Consortium includes Oregon and Washington, except for the basin and range of southeastern Oregon. The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This publication will be made available in accessible formats upon request. ©2015 University of Oregon MC0115-044bx 1 S everal trends have emerged in recent years that affect the management of the National Forest System, particularly in the western U.S. One is the recognition of landscapes departed from a natural range of variation, 1 especially with implications for wildfire management. Another trend is the economic decline in many rural communities of the western U.S., particularly those based on natural resource activities such as timber production. Finally, there is increasing acceptance of collaborative approaches to forest management. Collaborative approaches endeavor to increase mutual learning among previously polarized parties , find consensus to accomplish objectives, and improve the quality of public participation while addressing recent landscape and socioeconomic concerns. Within collaborative approaches, monitoring often plays a prominent role and can be used to strengthen communication and consensus among diverse groups by tracking a learning process rather than individual stakeholder interests. This tracking of progress can be used as a part of social learning 2 to serve as a form of social contract among the stake-holder groups. It reflects agreements on how to proceed in landscape management, identifies how well agreements are being met, and serves as a neutral approach for determining effectiveness. Monitoring and learning processes can help diffuse conflict by using field evidence to focus on what is actually happening. Monitoring has a long history in resource management. 3 Federal land management agencies and partners such as The Nature Conservancy have a long record of monitoring the effectiveness of management actions. 4 However, monitoring has also faced challenges and shortcomings in past efforts with concerns that include: 1) monitoring objectives that are poorly defined and constructed; 5 2) a lack of broad user and stakeholder involvement in the monitoring process; 6 3) a lack of institutional funding and support for monitoring; 7 4) unrealis-tic monitoring … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ewp.uoregon.edu/sites/ewp.uoregon.edu/files/WP_54.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/19160/WP_54.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.nationalforests.org/assets/pdfs/DeMeo-Handout-1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
