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a living document that will change over time. will change over that a living document Region. Since this work is always evolving, this directory should be considered be considered should this directory work is always evolving, this Since Region. use to understand the breadth and depth of this work in the Pacific Northwest Northwest in the Pacific of this work the breadth and depth understand use to This directory was established as a resource for employees and leadership to and leadership to employees for as a resource was established This directory plan restoration efforts that align with local and community values. and that align with local efforts plan restoration the potential to engage with Forest Service staff to effectively prepare for and effectively prepare to staff Service Forest with to engage the potential integrated collaborative efforts are not appropriate for all contexts, but have but contexts, for all are not appropriate efforts collaborative integrated with diverse stakeholders to larger-scale, more integrated collaboration. Such collaboration. more integrated larger-scale, to with diverse stakeholders rural and urban stakeholder needs and moving beyond bilateral relationships relationships bilateral beyond needs and moving rural and urban stakeholder collaboratives have played important roles in the Pacific Northwest in bridging in bridging Pacific Northwest the roles in have played important collaboratives Region are linked to at least one forest collaborative group. Historically, group. Historically, collaborative forest one at least to are linked Region forest lands (see map pgs 6-7). All national forests in the Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest in the forests pgs 6-7). All national lands (see map forest are 36 collaborative groups that work either exclusively or partially on national or partially on exclusively either that work groups are 36 collaborative resources, and increase accomplishments and benefits across the board. There across the board. and benefits and increase accomplishments resources, to address local community priorities, build community capacity, leverage leverage capacity, community priorities, build community local address to to and has engaged in for decades. It can provide agency staff opportunities opportunities staff agency provide It can decades. in for has engaged and to Collaboration is something the Pacific Northwest Region is deeply committed committed is deeply Region Northwest Pacific the something is Collaboration Introduction PAGE 4 PAGE 5 More information – sharing the process the process – sharing information More among understanding a better create helps parties all more informed, – more Better decisions dialogue for opportunity more creative, well are – when projects Better outcomes balanced between social, ecological and needs economic when a network projects – for support More in the outcome invested are people of are – Less misunderstandings conflict when trust built. is and addressed Five Benefitsof Collaboration Five 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Collaborative groups that discuss projects and issues as they relate to areas within the boundaries of Federal public lands Federal within the boundaries of to areas relate and issues as they discuss projects that groups Collaborative Collaborative groups that discuss projects and issues with an approach to land management that looks beyond National Forest Forest National beyond looks that to land management and issues with an approach discuss projects that groups Collaborative Working on complex projects where competing competing where projects on complex Working exist objectives the issue around exist Common values stake at people with interests are There present are leaders Service and non-governmental Forest and supportive is available A decision maker available are resources Adequate Non-decision making participant expert Subject matter interpreter Service process Forest communications Internal leader and relationship Outreach (sometimes) proponent Project Facilitator leader Collaboration

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on federally owned public lands. owned on federally only. These collaborative groups still have members representing a diversity of interests, and organizations, but their issue focus is mainly but their issue organizations, and interests, of diversity a representing members have still groups These collaborative only. Public Lands: Forest Service makes land management decision on non-Forest Service lands. decision on non-Forest land management Service makes Forest citizen group, and other land owner management and connectedness to forest service lands. An all lands approach does not mean that the does not mean that service lands. An all lands approach forest to connectedness and owner management and other land group, citizen land boundaries. Using an all lands approach includes planning and management that considers the contributions of state, private, tribal, private, state, of the contributions considers that and management includes planning land boundaries. Using an all lands approach All Lands: What is the difference between All Lands and Public Lands Collaborative Groups? All Lands and between What is the difference

Collaboration is Appropriate When: Collaboration is Appropriate supported. making, and management more effective and more wildly wildly and more effective more making, and management Include: can Service Roles Forest commitment up front, collaboration can make planning, decision- can make collaboration up front, commitment better ways of moving forward. Although it requires time and requires Although it forward. of moving ways better and disagreement, and working together to identify new and new identify to together and working and disagreement, of a topic or project, while identifying areas of agreement of agreement areas while identifying or project, of a topic sharing information and ideas to expand everyone’s knowledge knowledge everyone’s expand to and ideas sharing information work together to achieve a common purpose. It involves It involves purpose. a common achieve to together work Collaboration is a process in which people with diverse views views people with diverse in which is a process Collaboration What is it? What What is Collaboration? is What rogram P orkforce cosystem E W Wasco County Forest Collaborative Group Southern Willamette Forest Collaborative Wild Rivers Coast Forest Collaborative Chumstick Wildfire Stewardship Coalition Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project Clackamas Stewardship Partners Applegate Partnership Alsea Stewardship Group Hebo Stewardship Group Marys Peak Stewardship Group Siuslaw Stewardship Group South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership Wallowa County NRAC McKenzie Watershed Stewardship Group South Santiam All Lands Collaborative Tapash Sustainable Forest Collaborative All Lands Collaboratives allowa-Whitman Forest Collaborative Hood River Collaborative Stewardship Crew Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition Northeast Washington Pinchot Partners Collaborative Group South Gifford Pinchot Darrington Collaborative Olympic Forest Collaborative Skokomish Watershed Action Team Lakeview Stewardship Group MSA on the Fremont-Winema NF Blue Mountains Forest Partners Harney County Restoration Collaborative Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative Ashland Forest Resiliency MSA Southern OR Forest Restoration Collaborative Umatilla Forest Collaborative Group Umpqua Forestry Coalition W North Santiam Forest Collaborative N. Central Wa. Forest Health Collaborative Public Lands Collaboratives Public Lands allowa-Whitman Washington Oregon Colville Gifford Pinchot Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Olympic Deschutes Fremont-Winema Malheur Mt. Hood Ochoco Rogue River-Siskiyou Siuslaw Umatilla Umpqua W Willamette Okanogan-Wenatchee 16) 0 2 ( 50 s Oregon f Miles o hic Miles 40 0 nfograp orkforce Program, University of Oregon. W s/i University

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basic facts about the group. basic facts from the local community and community from the local such as their mission statement, such as their mission statement, distinct stakeholder groups. This groups. stakeholder distinct section is aimed at providing the section is aimed at providing its own unique story, relationship unique story, its own in citizen-led involvement in public involvement in citizen-led with their local forest, involvement involvement forest, with their local The collaborative groups profiled in groups The collaborative basic information about each group about each group basic information lands management. Each group has group has Each lands management. this directory represent great efforts great efforts represent this directory identifying the points of contact, and contact, of the points identifying The Collaborative Groups: Groups: Collaborative The Deschutes National Forest National Deschutes Facts Box Facts Environmental Organizations Environmental Groups Protection Community Wildfire Groups Tribal Interests and Water Watershed and Businesses Tourism Organization and Recreation Agencies State Researchers University State Oregon Agencies Federal Established in 2009 Established of 19 steering The DCFP comprises members committee NF, in Deschutes 257,000 of 1.6 million acres of DCFP focus the are foundation 501(c)3 through One between agreements. share cost Two Central and one between TNC and USFS, USFS Council and Intergovernmental Oregon All Lands Collaborative • • • • • • • • • • • • CFLRP • CCLS • • • State House District #53: Representative Gene Whisnant (R) Gene Whisnant #53: Representative House District State Buehler (R) Knute # 54: Representative House District State John Huffman (R) #59: Representative House District State http://deschutescollaborativeforest.org/ http://deschutescollaborativeforest.org/

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Forest Service: John Allen, Forest Supervisor [email protected] (541) 383-5512 Service: John Allen, Forest Forest [email protected] Contact Information Contact (541) 548-9546, Administrator, Program Resources Council, Natural Intergovernmental Oregon Central Ediger, Vernita Group: Collaborative State Senate District #30: Senator Ted Ferrioli (R) Ferrioli Ted #30: Senator District Senate State State Senate District #27: Senator Tim Knopp (R) Tim Knopp #27: Senator District Senate State U.S. Representative, Oregon District #2: Greg Walden (R) #2: Greg District Oregon Representative, U.S. U.S. Senator for Oregon: Ron Wyden (D) Wyden Ron Oregon: for Senator U.S. U.S. Senator for Oregon: Jeff Merkley (D) Merkley Jeff Oregon: for Senator U.S. Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal 2013, Journal of Forestry). cost on both a per-fire and landscape basis (Thompson et al., basis (Thompson and landscape on both a per-fire cost of Participation Diversity result in a substantial reduction of wildfire size and suppression size and suppression reduction of wildfire in a substantial result scale implementation of the type of fuel treatments planned will type of fuel treatments of the implementation scale of national forest lands adjacent to the community of Bend. to the lands adjacent forest of national large- that showed on the DCFP study A case landscapes. forest project, is the West Bend Project, which covers over 26,000 acres acres 26,000 over which covers Project, Bend West is the project, of priority restoration science-based ecosystem collaborative, Interface (WUI) areas near Bend, Sisters, and Sunriver. One current One current and Sunriver. Sisters, near Bend, (WUI) areas Interface to encourage established Congress that in the nation projects techniques. The focus of the efforts is in the Wildland Urban is in the efforts of the focus The techniques. demonstration restoration The DCFP is one of 20 landscape DCFP landscape, including CFLR fund allocation and restoration restoration and including CFLR fund allocation DCFP landscape, input to the Forest Service on management decisions within the Service on management Forest the input to The Steering Committee is the formal channel for providing for providing formal channel is the Committee The Steering community members representing a wide set of views and values. and of views set wide a representing members community (CCLS) funding. The DCFP Steering Committee members are 19 are members Committee (CCLS) funding. The DCFP Steering using 10.1 million of Community Capacity and Land Stewardship and Land Stewardship using 10.1 million of Community Capacity resilient condition through balanced, science-driven restoration restoration science-driven balanced, through condition resilient economy. economy. a more to of forest acres 257,000 restore DCFP is to The aim of the while meeting the needs of communities and supporting the local the communities and supporting the needs of while meeting Deschutes National Forest on projects to restore healthy forests forests healthy restore to on projects Forest National Deschutes Since 2009, the DCFP Steering Committee has advised the Committee Steering Since 2009, the DCFP Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination restoration projects to reach common goals. common reach to projects restoration together to improve the health of our forest through active active through the health of our forest improve to together of diverse stakeholders bringing Central Oregon communities communities Oregon bringing Central stakeholders of diverse The Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project (DCFP) is a group (DCFP) is a group Project Forest Collaborative The Deschutes Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Deschutes Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project Forest Collaborative Deschutes PAGE 10 PAGE 11 OREGON Fremont-Winema National Forest National Fremont-Winema Facts Box Facts (Lake County Resources Initiative) Resources County (Lake Established in 1998 Established has sustained log mill that small diameter jobs. 100 local Community Collaborative • • CFLRP • 501(c)3 • of a the installation coordinate Helped to • Public Lands Collaborative • Funding Chiefs Joint 2016 Awarded • Outstanding for Award 2014 Chief’s http://lcri.org/forest-collaboration/ http://lcri.org/forest-collaboration/ Federal Agencies Federal Groups Conservation Groups and Hunting Wildlife Agencies State Councils Watershed Organizations Environmental Community Organizations Timber Industry Commercial Community Business Local Non-Profits Environmental Citizens Independent

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District #60: Representative Cliff Bentz (R) Bentz Cliff #60: Representative District District #30: Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli (R) Ferrioli Leader Ted Republican #30: Senate District District #55: Representative Mike McLane (R) Mike #55: Representative District District #28: Senator Dennis Linthicum (R) Dennis Linthicum #28: Senator District District #2: Congressman Greg Walden (R) Walden Greg #2: Congressman District Oregon: U. S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D) Merkley Jeff S. Senator U. Oregon: Oregon: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D) Wyden Ron Senator U.S. Oregon: Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Mike Ramsey, Eastside Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist, 541-947-6340 Specialist, Resource Supervisory Natural Eastside Ramsey, Service: Mike Forest Collaborative Group: Jim Walls, Project Coordinator, (541) 947-5461 Coordinator, Walls, Project Jim Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

monitoring/) Team comprised of local students. (http://lcri.org/biophysical- students. of local comprised Team LCRI to do was establish the Chewaucan Biophysical Monitoring Monitoring Biophysical the Chewaucan establish do was to LCRI Following review of the Unit, the first thing the collaborative asked asked collaborative thing the the Unit, the first of review Following of Participation Diversity Unit (LFSU). they re-designated the Unit as the Lakeview Federal Stewardship Stewardship Federal the Unit as the Lakeview re-designated they approach. The Forest Service responded positively, and in 2001, positively, Service responded Forest The approach. developed and proposed a new, restoration-based management management restoration-based a new, and proposed developed operations and, after studying the results, collaboratively collaboratively results, studying the after and, operations participants commissioned a third-party review of the Unit’s of the Unit’s review commissioned a third-party participants Convening as the Lakeview Stewardship Group (LSG), the Group Stewardship as the Lakeview Convening in the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southern Oregon. in southern Oregon. Forest National in the Fremont-Winema the 500,000-acre Lakeview Federal Sustained Yield Unit (the Unit) Yield Sustained Federal Lakeview the 500,000-acre 1998 to develop a strategy for sustainable forest management of management forest sustainable for a strategy develop 1998 to The Lakeview Stewardship Group (LSG) collaboration began in began (LSG) collaboration Group Stewardship The Lakeview Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination generations. management that ensures quality of life for present and future and future present for life quality of ensures that management To demonstrate a sustainable approach to natural resources resources natural to approach a sustainable demonstrate To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Lake Lakeview Stewardship Group Group Stewardship Lakeview Fremont-Winema National Forest National Fremont-Winema Facts Box Facts Established in 2011 Established Agreement Project Supplemental Current (Black Hills, Projects 30,000 ac – 3 Acres: Knight) Red Coyote, 1.7 Million Acres covers MSA • • • • Public Lands Collaborative

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District #60: Representative Cliff Bentz (R) Cliff Bentz #60: Representative District District #30: Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli (R) Ferrioli Leader Ted Republican #30: Senate District District #55: Representative Mike McLane (R) Mike #55: Representative District District #28: Senator Doug Whitsett (R) Doug Whitsett #28: Senator District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Judd Lehman, District Ranger, Chiloquin and Chemult Ranger Districts, (541) 783-4020, [email protected] (effective January 8, 2017) (effective (541) 783-4020, [email protected] Districts, Chiloquin and Chemult Ranger Ranger, Judd Lehman, District Forest Service: Mike Lawrence, District Ranger, Chiloquin Ranger District, (541) 783-4020, [email protected] (retiring January 3, 2017) (retiring (541) 783-4020, [email protected] District, Chiloquin Ranger Ranger, District Lawrence, Service: Mike Forest Craig Bienz, Nature Conservancy - Director Sycan Marsh, (541) 273-0789, [email protected] Marsh, Sycan - Director Conservancy Bienz, Nature Craig Marko Bey, Lomakatsi Restoration Project, (541) 488-0208, [email protected] Project, Restoration Lomakatsi Bey, Marko klamathtribes.com Master Stewardship Agreement: Will Hatcher, Klamath Tribes Natural Resources Director (541) 783-2219 ext: 142, Will.hatcher@ (541) 783-2219 ext: Director Resources Natural Tribes Klamath Will Hatcher, Agreement: Stewardship Master Contact Information Contact equipment, and supervision, and funding when available. and supervision,equipment, and funding when available. for accomplishments. The Fremont-Winema provides training, training, provides The Fremont-Winema accomplishments. for efficient implementation, and supplementing Forest capacity Forest and supplementing implementation, efficient treatment outcomes, developing guidelines and technology for for guidelines and technology developing outcomes, treatment are actively engaged with the Forest Service in determining Service in determining Forest with the engaged actively are of Participation Diversity restoration following specific planning decisions. The Partners Partners planning decisions. The specific following restoration Act and develops guidance and direction for implementing for implementing and direction guidance Act and develops the planning process under the National Environmental Policy Environmental under the National the planning process and implementing restoration goals. The Forest completes completes Forest goals. The restoration and implementing National Forest lands and takes the leadership role in planning role the leadership takes lands and Forest National Winema National Forest has the responsibility to manage to manage responsibility has the Forest Winema National successfully achieve mutual goals and objectives. The Fremont- and objectives. mutual goals achieve successfully the leveraging of diverse expertise, skills, and resources to resources and skills, expertise, of diverse the leveraging Fremont -Winema National Forest benefits all parties through parties all benefits Forest -Winema National Fremont Lomakatsi Restoration Project, The Nature Conservancy and the Conservancy The Nature Project, Restoration Lomakatsi The collaborative partnership between the Klamath Tribes, the Klamath between partnership The collaborative Fremont-Winema National Forest. National Fremont-Winema Service Forest with Coordination cooperative effort for landscape restoration activities within the restoration for landscape effort cooperative health. The Master Stewardship Agreement (MSA) authorizes this authorizes (MSA) Agreement Stewardship health. The Master restore diversity, resilience, sustainable and overall landscape landscape and overall sustainable resilience, diversity, restore To treat unhealthy forest conditions and habitats in an effort to effort in an and habitats conditions forest unhealthy treat To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Klamath Master Stewardship Agreement on the Fremont-Winema Fremont-Winema the on Agreement Stewardship Master PAGE 12 PAGE 13 OREGON Malheur National Forest National Malheur Facts Box Facts Established in 2006 Established appx. Acreage: Planning Projects USFS Recent 100,000 (3 projects) been have Since 2008 BMFP and HCRC Blues on the Southern together working Coalition Project Public Lands Collaborative • • • CFLRP • 501(c)3 • • http://bluemountainsforestpartners.org/ http://bluemountainsforestpartners.org/ Commercial Timber Industry Commercial Citizens Independent Land Owners Private Organizations Environmental Groups Conservation Agencies Federal Government Local Agencies State Organizations Wildlife Labor Industry

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District #60: Representative Cliff Bentz (R) Cliff Bentz #60: Representative District District #30: Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli (R) Ferrioli Leader Ted Republican #30: Senate District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Steve Beverlin, Malheur National Forest, Forest Supervisor, [email protected], (541) 575-3073 [email protected], Supervisor, Forest Forest, Malheur National Beverlin, Service: Steve Forest Contact Information Contact 620-2546 (541) [email protected] Director, Webb, Executive Mark Group: Collaborative depend on natural resources. depend on natural and increased work for the 7,300 residents of Grant County that that County of Grant the 7,300 residents for work and increased the increased resiliency for thousands of acres of national forest forest of national thousands of acres for resiliency the increased agreement for forest restoration on the Malheur, resulting in on the Malheur, restoration forest for agreement of Participation Diversity Together, members have developed science-based zones of science-based zones developed have members Together, danger, and improves the ecosystem. and improves danger, allocation from USDA, provides logging and mill jobs, reduces fire reduces fire logging and mill jobs, provides USDA, from allocation projects and other work. The work, funded by a $2.5 million funded by The work, and other work. projects 272,000 acres of the Malheur National Forest through thinning through Forest of the Malheur National 272,000 acres Service, the BMFP helped forge a 10-year agreement to restore restore to agreement a 10-year Service, the BMFP helped forge lessening the likelihood of litigation. Working with the Forest Forest Working with the of litigation. lessening the likelihood treatments” in the planning and implementation process, process, and implementation in the planning treatments” staff utilizes the BMFP collaboratively agreed upon “proposed agreed upon collaboratively the BMFP utilizes staff to describe and discuss possible treatment options. Forest Service Forest options. describe and discuss possible treatment to Forest Service resource specialists work with BMFP on field tours tours with BMFP on field work specialists Service resource Forest Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination and communities in the Blue Mountains. and communities shared vision to improve the resilience and well-being of forests of forests and well-being the resilience improve to vision shared stakeholders who work together to create and implement a and implement create to together work who stakeholders Blue Mountains Forest Partners (BMFP) is a diverse group of group is a diverse (BMFP) Partners Forest Blue Mountains Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Grant Blue Mountains Forest Partners Forest Mountains Blue Master Stewardship Agreement on the Fremont-Winema Fremont-Winema the on Agreement Stewardship Master Facts Box Facts Malheur National Forest (Southern End) (Southern Forest National Malheur Established in 2008 Established appx. Acreage: Planning Projects USFS Recent and 2 more projects 180,000 (3 completed with planning completed) with BMFP on the together Working since 2008. Southern Blues Coalition Project The HCRC held a Science and Economic Summit in 2014 held a Science and Economic The HCRC Community of Harney the development spurred that services thermal energy (HCE), a community-scale Energy institutions to biomass heat will provide that company and employment local creating while County in Harney efforts. restoration enhancing forest • • • CFLRP • 501(c)3 • 2008 Solutions Project, Oregon • • Public Lands Collaborative http://highdesertpartnership.org/ http://highdesertpartnership.org/ Wildlife and Hunting Organizations and Hunting Wildlife Timber Industry Commercial Government Local Labor Industry Organizations Environmental Organizations Non-Profit Environmental Universities Local Groups Conservation Community Business Local Land Owners Private Non-Commercial Agencies Federal Groups Tribal and Grazing Range Business Council Local Recreation Motorized Councils Watershed Agencies State Agencies Federal Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project Biodiversity Blue Mountains

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District #60: Representative Cliff Bentz (R) Cliff Bentz #60: Representative District District #30: Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli (R) Ferrioli Leader Ted Republican #30: Senate District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Steve Beverlin, (541) 575-3073, [email protected] Beverlin, Service: Steve Forest Collaborative Group: Brenda Smith, Executive Director, (541) 573-7820, [email protected] Director, Smith, Executive Brenda Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact Diversity of Participation of Participation Diversity planning projects on the Malheur National Forest. National on the Malheur planning projects Works with the Emigrant Creek Ranger District on the current on the current District Ranger Creek with the Emigrant Works interested stakeholders to solve challenging issues. solve to stakeholders interested Service Forest with Coordination communities by using collaborative decision-making with all collaborative by using communities sustainability, economic well-being and social vitality of our of our vitality and social well-being economic sustainability, Desert Partnership (HDP) missions of enhancing the ecological of enhancing the ecological (HDP) missions Desert Partnership improving community economic viability under the High viability economic community improving To restore forest land while encouraging stewardship and stewardship land while encouraging forest restore To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Harney Harney County Restoration Collaborative Restoration County Harney PAGE 14 PAGE 15 OREGON Mt. Hood National Forest National Mt. Hood Facts Box Facts Established in 2004 Established approximately 2004 – 2016: promoted From restoration $6,000,000 of job-creating Basin River in the Clackamas projects about funding for The CSP recommends using projects of restoration $350,000 worth year. every receipts retained All Lands Collaborative • • • • http://clackamasstewardshippartners.org/wp/ http://clackamasstewardshippartners.org/wp/ Kurt Schrader (D) Schrader Kurt Vic Gilliam (Rep/R) (R) Girod Fred Blumenauer (D) Local Government Local Groups Conservation Timber Industry Commercial Agencies Federal Agencies State Groups Wildlife and Hunting University Local Organizations Environmental Councils Watershed

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District #5: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal #18: District # 9: District # 3: District Forest Service: Jackie Groce, Clackamas River Ranger District - District Ranger, [email protected] (503) 630-6861 [email protected] Ranger, - District District Ranger River Clackamas Service: Jackie Groce, Forest Contact Information Contact (503) 657-9112 [email protected], Facilitator, Roth, Robert Group: Collaborative resistance to insects and wildfire. insects to resistance of Participation Diversity of peregrine falcon nest sites, and thinning projects to increase increase to and thinning projects sites, nest falcon of peregrine by inappropriate off-highway vehicle recreation, enhancement enhancement recreation, vehicle off-highway inappropriate by decommissioning of unneeded roads, repair of sites damaged damaged of sites repair roads, of unneeded decommissioning salmon and other aquatic species of concern, road repair and repair and road concern, species of salmon and other aquatic projects that have included improving and expanding habitat for for habitat and expanding included improving have that projects The Mt. Hood National Forest works closely with CSP on closely works Forest The Mt. Hood National to meet restoration goals. restoration meet to Service Forest with Coordination that employs stewardship contracting and other innovative tools and other innovative contracting stewardship employs that Stewardship Partners (CSP) is committed to a collaborative process process collaborative to a (CSP) is committed Partners Stewardship communities within the Clackamas River Basin. Clackamas Basin. Clackamas River within the Clackamas communities Enhance ecosystem health and economic viability of local of local viability and economic health Enhance ecosystem Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Basin River County/Clackamas Clackamas Clackamas Stewardship Partners Stewardship Clackamas Harney County Restoration Collaborative Restoration County Harney Mt. Hood National Forest Forest Hood National Mt. Facts Box Facts (2014) Cooper (2013), Polallie (2011), Lava planning on the next working and is current District Ranger the Hood River for area • Public Lands Collaborative • in 2011 Established • Hill on Red recommendations Has provided www.hrstewcrew.org www.hrstewcrew.org

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District #26: District #52: District District #2: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Casey Gatz, Natural Resource Planner, Hood River Ranger District, 541-352-1255, [email protected] District, Ranger Hood River Planner, Resource Natural Service: Gatz, Casey Forest by Emily Plummer with DS Consulting Emily Plummer with by Contact Information Contact provided is facilitation District, and Conservation Water Soil and by the Hood River provided support is Administrative Group: Collaborative objectives. future range of variability as reference conditions for restoration restoration for conditions as reference of variability range future Where feasible the Stewe Crew considers both the historic and historic both the considers Crew the Stewe feasible Where patterns of use and opportunities to mitigate climate change. change. climate to mitigate of use and opportunities patterns of Participation Diversity wildlife habitat, fire resiliency, recreation opportunities, cultural cultural opportunities, recreation resiliency, fire habitat, wildlife goals include addressing forest health, soil and water quality, quality, health, soil and water forest include addressing goals socioeconomic benefits in area communities. Within this focus Within this communities. in area benefits socioeconomic resiliency in and near the national forest while sustaining while sustaining forest in and near the national resiliency The primary focus of the Collaborative is on restoring ecological ecological restoring is on of the Collaborative The primary focus expertise. expertise. historical data, and sharing technical resource information and information resource technical and sharing data, historical engagement at meetings, providing resource information, sharing information, resource providing meetings, at engagement partners in their collaborative process by maintaining active active by maintaining process in their collaborative partners landowners on specific project goals or activities. on specific project landowners being committed by Crew Service the Stew supports The Forest landowners and highlight opportunities to collaborate with these collaborate to opportunities and highlight landowners Service Forest with Coordination landscapes. In doing so, they may seek input from neighboring seek input from may they so, In doing landscapes. input on land management activities within the context of larger of larger context activities within the input on land management of the Mt. Hood National Forest. The Collaborative provides provides The Collaborative Forest. of the Mt. Hood National forestland management within the Hood River Ranger District District Ranger the Hood River within management forestland of stakeholders providing consensus-based recommendations on recommendations consensus-based providing of stakeholders The Hood River Forest Collaborative (Stew Crew) is a diverse set set is a diverse Crew) (Stew Collaborative Forest River The Hood Mission/About Statement Mission/About

District Ranger River Hood Hood River Forest Collaborative Forest River Hood PAGE 16 PAGE 17 OREGON Mt. Hood National Forest Hood National Mt. Facts Box Facts Established in 2015 Established Board County the Wasco from appointment of Commissioners • • filled by are positions Committee Steering • All Lands Collaborative http://wascoswcd.org/wcswcd_035.htm http://wascoswcd.org/wcswcd_035.htm

Environmental Organizations Environmental Agencies State Governments Tribal Councils Watershed Government Local Protection Community Wildfire Public Utilities Officials Elected Local Groups Recreation and Non-Motorized Motorized Landowners Private Government Local Forest Products Industry Products Forest Support Community Wildfire Protection Plans and reduce reduce Plans and Protection Wildfire Support Community landowners. communities and adjacent to risk wildfire restoration of flow predictable a meaningful and Provide products forest by local utilization for by-products businesses. Service Forest to the input and recommendations Provide Landscape. County Wasco the work within on restoration Restore natural processes and functions within a processes natural Restore variability. of range natural setting’s biophysical

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District #30: Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli (R) Ferrioli Leader Ted Republican #30: Senate District District #59: Representative John Huffman (R) #59: Representative District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Kameron Sam, Barlow Ranger District, District Ranger, (541) 467-5101, [email protected] Ranger, District District, Ranger Sam, Barlow Service: Kameron Forest Collaborative Group: William Noonan, Facilitator & Coordinator, (541) 296-8185 & Coordinator, Facilitator William Noonan, Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact County area on the Eastside of the Mt. Hood National Forest. Hood National of the Mt. on the Eastside area County of Participation Diversity communities. The collaborative group focuses on the Wasco Wasco focuses on the group collaborative The communities. of forest resources and related opportunities to strengthen local local strengthen to opportunities and related resources of forest management of National Forest lands, and supports the utilization lands, and supports the utilization Forest of National management The group provides the US Forest Service with proposals for for Service with proposals the US Forest provides The group Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination group seeks to: seeks group wildland urban interface with Wasco County. The collaborative collaborative The County. with Wasco wildland urban interface ecosystems, economic vitality and quality of life in Wasco in the in Wasco and quality of life vitality economic ecosystems, broad constituency of stakeholders interested in healthy forest forest in healthy interested stakeholders of constituency broad The Wasco County Forest Collaborative Group represents a represents Group Collaborative Forest County The Wasco Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Wasco Wasco County Forest Collaborative Forest County Wasco Hood River Forest Collaborative Forest River Hood Facts Box Facts Ochoco NF & Crooked River National Grasslands National River Crooked NF & Ochoco Established in 2012 Established OFRC the Service awarded Forest the U.S. the Community Capacity $23,980 through for program grant and Land Stewardship facilitation. including more of treatment, 20,000 acres of commercial feet than 16 million board of than 10,000 acres more timber, than 15 miles of and more fire, prescribed restoration. stream 21 inches diameter over of trees harvest aspen for of agreement and zones restoration. • • and Foundation Forest In 2014, the National • than include more and Gap projects Wolf • limited guidelines for provided OFRC http://ochocoforest.org/ http://ochocoforest.org/ Local Elected Officials Elected Local Timber Industry Commercial Organization Environmental Business Council Local Citizens Independent Agencies State Agencies Federal Landowners Private Universities Local Groups Tribal

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District #60: Representative Cliff Bentz (R) Cliff Bentz #60: Representative District District #59: Representative John Huffman (R) John #59: Representative District District #30: Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli (R) Ferrioli Leader Ted Republican #30: Senate District District #55: Representative Mike McLane (R) Mike #55: Representative District District #28: Senator Doug Whitsett (R) Doug Whitsett #28: Senator District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Paulina District Ranger Gary Asbridge (541) 416-6500 3160 NE Ochoco Hwy, Prineville, OR 97754 Prineville, Hwy, NE Ochoco (541) 416-6500 3160 Gary Asbridge Ranger District Service: Paulina Forest Central Oregon email: [email protected] cell: 503.502.2003 email: [email protected] Oregon Central Collaborative Group: Anne E. George, Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative Facilitator, Facilitation, Mediation + Public Involvement + Public Mediation Facilitation, Facilitator, Collaborative Restoration Forest Ochoco Anne E. George, Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact and historic range of variability. of variability. range and historic socioeconomics, plant association groups, dry forest restoration restoration forest dry groups, association plant socioeconomics, of Participation Diversity difficult issues, such as aspen restoration, climate change, change, climate restoration, difficult issues, such as aspen in need of restoration and to engage in open discussion about in open to engage and in need of restoration Forest planners work with the OFRC to identify priority areas areas priority identify to with the OFRC work planners Forest vegetation management projects. management vegetation but has spent the majority of its interaction on the Wolf and Gap Wolf on the the majority of its interaction but has spent Forest engages with the collaborative on several different issues, different on several with the collaborative engages Forest shared technical resources and expertise. The Ochoco National National The Ochoco and expertise. resources technical shared Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative (OFRC) and provide provide and (OFRC) Collaborative Restoration Forest Ochoco economically sustainable economically of the members non-voting as serve Service members Forest forest management and timber production that is ecologically and ecologically is that production and timber management forest Service Forest with Coordination wood fiber produced as a by-product of restoration, and increase and increase restoration, of by-product as a produced fiber wood economy based on ecosystem restoration and adding value to value and adding restoration based on ecosystem economy natural resource conflicts in the community, build a new forest forest build a new community, in the conflicts resource natural forest ecosystems at the landscape scale, address long-term long-term address scale, landscape the at ecosystems forest To utilize collaborative approaches to help restore fire-adapted fire-adapted restore to help approaches collaborative utilize To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Crook, Wheeler, Grant and Jefferson Counties Counties and Jefferson Grant Wheeler, Crook, Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative Restoration Forest Ochoco PAGE 18 PAGE 19 OREGON Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest National River-Siskiyou Rogue Facts Box Facts Established in 1992 Established (FLN) Learning Network Fire Applegate West • • • 501(c)3 • in the groups collaborative One of the oldest • All Lands Collaborative http://www.applegatepartnershipwc.org/ http://www.applegatepartnershipwc.org/ Conservations Groups Conservations University Local Agencies Federal Agencies State Organizations Environmental Government Local Public Utilities Watershed Councils Watershed In-stream habitat projects habitat In-stream projects Riparian Restoration projects Device efficiency & Measuring Irrigation projects Fuels reduction projects Multi-party monitoring

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District #1: Senator Jeff Kruse (R) Jeff #1: Senator District District #28: Senator Doug Whitsett (R) Doug Whitsett #28: Senator District District #2: Representative Dallas Heard (R) Dallas Heard #2: Representative District District #1: Representative Wayne Krieger (R) Krieger Wayne #1: Representative District District #55: Representative Mike McLane (R) Mike #55: Representative District District #4: Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio #4: Peter District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Donna Mickley, District Ranger, [email protected], (541) 899-3800 [email protected], Ranger, District Service: Donna Mickley, Forest Collaborative Group: Janelle Dunlevy, Coordinator, [email protected], (541) 899-9982 [email protected], Coordinator, Janelle Dunlevy, Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

Diversity of Participation Diversity that encompass the entire Applegate watershed, including: watershed, Applegate the entire encompass that APWC works on and assists agencies and landowners on projects on projects and landowners agencies on and assists works APWC for Collaboration: Case Study of the Applegate Partnership. Collaboration: Case Study of the Applegate for Management Area Guide (1998). See 2002 Measures of Progress Area Management forest resources using goals identified in the Applegate Adaptive Adaptive in the Applegate identified using goals resources forest being.” national manage to with APWC Service works The US Forest parties while contributing to local economic and community well- community economic and to local contributing parties while Service Forest with Coordination partnership with landowners, agencies and other interested and other interested agencies with landowners, partnership through stewardship, education and restoration carried out in restoration and education stewardship, through promote ecosystem health across the Applegate watershed watershed the Applegate health across ecosystem promote community-based non-profit organization whose mission is “to whose mission is organization non-profit community-based The Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council (APWC) is a is Council (APWC) & Watershed Partnership The Applegate Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Counties and Jackson Siskiyou, Josephine, Applegate Partnership Applegate Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative Restoration Forest Ochoco Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest National River-Siskiyou Rogue Facts Box Facts 5,123 acres of landscape-scale fuels landscape-scale of 5,123 acres restoration forest and reduction complete. of restoration feet 13.2 million board diameter logs (average by-product 13 inches). annually, full-time jobs 17 direct with indirect to 107 jobs multiplying and induced work habitat critical Late-successional sustained o o o o Established in 2010 with a goal of 7,600 a goal in 2010 with Established including project, in 10-year acres treated fuel understory density management, underburning. and prescribed treatments, Restoration Landscape Chiefs The Joint Service and the Forest program Partnerships AFR funding are Fuels program Hazardous 2018. through participated have youth 2,000 local Over watershed in classes and field activities on stewardship and forest ecology • • • hwww.ashlandwatershed.org Federal Agencies Federal Government Local Groups Conservation Group Energy Forest Timber Industry Commercial Groups Tribal Community Business Local

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State District #5: Representative Peter Buckley (D) Buckley Peter #5: Representative District State State District #3: Senator Kevin Talbert (D) Talbert Kevin #3: Senator District State District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Don Boucher, AFR Project Manager, [email protected], (541) 522-2913 [email protected], Manager, AFR Project Service: Don Boucher, Forest National Resource Conservation Service: Erin Kurtz, [email protected] (541) 664-1070 x408 (541) 664-1070 Kurtz, [email protected] Service: Erin Conservation Resource National Lomakatsi Restoration Project, Marko Bey, [email protected] (541) 488-0208, [email protected] Bey, Marko Project, Restoration Lomakatsi The Nature Conservancy, Darren Borgias, [email protected] (541) 770-7933 (541) [email protected] Borgias, Darren Conservancy, The Nature City of Ashland, Chris Chambers, [email protected] (541) 552-2066 [email protected] City of Ashland, Chris Chambers, Contact Information Contact Fire Management Strategy. Management Fire private lands, creating a model for the National Cohesive Wildland Wildland Cohesive for the National a model lands, creating private of Participation Diversity advance the project toward completion and expand it to critical to critical expand it and completion toward the project advance landscape. New federal investment and expanding partnerships partnerships and expanding investment federal New landscape. wildfire and climate resilience in both the ecological and social and social resilience in both the ecological and climate wildfire transparency and trust in a cohesive and adaptive approach for approach and adaptive in a cohesive and trust transparency Conservancy, and Lomakatsi Restoration Project. Partners build Partners Project. Restoration and Lomakatsi Conservancy, Resource Conservation Service, the City of Ashland, The Nature Service, the City of Ashland, The Nature Conservation Resource boundary City and private lands. boundary City and private Service, National Forest the U.S. between is a partnership AFAR Ashland Forest Resiliency Master Stewardship Agreement to cross- to Agreement Stewardship Master Resiliency Ashland Forest Service Forest with Coordination economy, and quality of life. AFAR expands the 10-year federal federal the 10-year expands AFAR of life. and quality economy, and protecting forests, wildlife, habitat, people, property, local local people, property, habitat, wildlife, forests, and protecting wildfire in a changing climate, securing clean drinking water, water, securing clean drinking in a changing climate, wildfire lands Restoration (AFAR) is to reduce the critical risk of severe severe risk of reduce the critical to is (AFAR) lands Restoration The goal of the Ashland Forest Resiliency (AFR) Project and All- (AFR) Project Resiliency of the Ashland Forest The goal Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Jackson Ashland Forest Resiliency Project and All-lands Restoration All-lands and Project Resiliency Forest Ashland PAGE 20 PAGE 21 OREGON Rogue River-Siskiyou NF River-Siskiyou Rogue Facts Box Facts Established in 2013 Established been working of 2015, RBP has most For framework the organizational finalize to for as a backbone entity serve necessary to Rogue Basin work in the restoration miles is 5,156 square Basin River The Rogue All Lands Collaborative http://www.roguepartners.org • • 501(c)(3) • • • Watershed Councils Watershed Groups Tribal Groups Conservation Public Utilities Government Local Agencies State Organizations Environmental Groups Collaborative Local

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District #2: Senator Herman Baertschiger Jr. (R) Jr. Herman Baertschiger #2: Senator District District #1: Senator Jeff Kruse (R) Jeff #1: Senator District District #28: Senator Doug Whitsett (R) Doug Whitsett #28: Senator District District #4: Representative Duane Stark (R) Duane Stark #4: Representative District District #2: Representative Dallas Heard (R) Dallas Heard #2: Representative District District #1: Representative Wayne Krieger (R) Krieger Wayne #1: Representative District District #55: Representative Mike McLane (R) Mike #55: Representative District District #4: Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio #4: Peter District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Chris Park, Forest Hydrologist, (541) 471-6761 [email protected] (541) 471-6761 [email protected] Hydrologist, Forest Service: Chris Park, Forest Contact Information Contact [email protected] Coordinator, Sam Whitridge, Group: Collaborative

appropriate treatments. appropriate of Participation Diversity Restoration Action Plans and implementation schedules for schedules Action Plans and implementation Restoration among other partners, to collaboratively develop Watershed Watershed develop collaboratively to among other partners, Forest Service has worked with the Rogue Basin Partnership, Basin Partnership, with the Rogue Service has worked Forest partner organizations. Service Forest with Coordination restoration activities and to enhance the success of member and to enhance the success of member activities and restoration emphasizing stewardship, protection, public engagement and public engagement protection, emphasizing stewardship, wide venue to seek out resources; prioritize and coordinate action coordinate and prioritize out resources; seek to wide venue Rogue River Basin of Southern Oregon and to provide a basin- a provide to and Basin of Southern Oregon River Rogue To provide leadership to achieve watershed health throughout the throughout health watershed achieve to leadership provide To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

CA Counties Norte and Del & Siskiyou, Counties OR and Klamath Douglas Curry, Jackson, Josephine, Rogue Basin Partnership Basin Rogue Rogue River-Siskiyou NF River-Siskiyou Rogue Facts Box Facts Established informally in 2005 and formally in 2005 and formally informally Established in 2010 – One Plan Group Fire of the Applegate Part nation in the collaboratives of the first Title III and RACs SRS Funded by Change series on Climate a webinar Created and TNC BLM, UW, with USFS, in partnership 501(c)3 since 2010 Forest Collaborative areas: focal Project Adapted Fire Change; Climate Restoration; People Communities; Multiparty Monitoring; Basin of the Rogue and Ecosystems Public Lands Collaborative • • • • CFLRP • • • • www.ashlandwatershed.org Community Organization Non-Profits Environmental Agencies Federal Plan Group Fire Josephine/Jackson Organization Environmental Groups Tribal Agencies State Universities Local Government Local Timber Industry Commercial Groups Conservation

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District #55: Representative Mike McLane (R) Mike #55: Representative District District #28: Senator Doug Whitsett (R) Doug Whitsett #28: Senator District District #3: Representative Carl Wilson (R) #3: Representative District District #2: Senator Herman Baertschiger Jr. (R) Jr. Herman Baertschiger #2: Senator District District #1: Representative Wayne Krieger (R) Krieger Wayne #1: Representative District District #1: Senator Jeff Kruse (R) Jeff #1: Senator District District #5: Representative Peter Buckley (D) Buckley Peter #5: Representative District District #6: Representative Sal Esquivel (R) Sal Esquivel #6: Representative District District #3: Senator Kevin Talbert (D) Talbert Kevin #3: Senator District District #4: Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio #4: Peter District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Allan Hahn, Natural Resources Staff, Rogue River Siskiyou NF, (541) 618-2050 [email protected] (541) 618-2050 [email protected] NF, Siskiyou Rogue River Staff, Resources Service: Allan Hahn, Natural Forest Collaborative Group: George McKinley, Executive Director, (541) 482-6220 [email protected] [email protected] (541) 482-6220 Director, Executive McKinley, George Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

assessments of forest restoration need and opportunity. restoration of forest assessments They have also been instrumental in advancing regional landscape landscape regional in advancing also been instrumental have They to consult in project planning to achieve on the ground success. on the ground achieve planning to in project consult to of Participation Diversity social, and economic indicators for agencies and stakeholders and stakeholders agencies for indicators social, and economic to create Productive Harmony Guidelines, a set of ecological, of ecological, Guidelines, a set Harmony Productive create to restoration, the Collaborative worked with diverse stakeholders stakeholders with diverse worked the Collaborative restoration, Program and the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest. To advance To advance Forest. National Siskiyou River and the Rogue Program plan emerged from a partnership with the Model Forest Policy Policy Forest with the Model a partnership from plan emerged in a Changing Climate” in 2014. This collaboratively developed developed in 2014. This collaboratively in a Changing Climate” “The Rogue Basin Action Plan for Resilient Watersheds and Forests Forests and Watersheds Resilient “Thefor Basin Action Plan Rogue Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative completed completed Collaborative Restoration Forest Southern Oregon manufacturing and workforce capacity. and workforce manufacturing Service Forest with Coordination and communities, and strengthen regional forest restoration restoration forest regional strengthen and and communities, resilience, reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire to forests forests to wildfire the risk of uncharacteristic reduce resilience, Oregon's Rogue River Basin. We work to improve forest health and forest improve to work We Basin. River Rogue Oregon's To increase the restoration of federal forests in Southwest in Southwest forests federal of the restoration increase To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Counties (CA) Siskiyou and Klamath, Tertiary:Coos, Curry, Douglas, Secondary and Counties, and Josephine Jackson Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative Collaborative Restoration Forest Oregon Southern PAGE 22 PAGE 23 OREGON Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest National River-Siskiyou Rogue Facts Box Facts Established in 2012 Established Extension University State Oregon by Hosted and Curry County • • • All Lands Collaborative http://wrcfc.org/Home/ Local Universities Local Individual Citizens Landowners Private Timber Industry Commercial Organizations Conservation Federal Agencies Federal

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things - including humans - who inhabit the area. things - including humans - who inhabit animals is beneficial to the health of the forest and the living and forest of the to the health animals is beneficial ecosystem. Restoring the oak and accompanying plants and plants the oak and accompanying Restoring ecosystem. of Participation Diversity The land has been transforming over the years to a fir-based a fir-based to the years over The land has been transforming Creek is a tributary to the Rogue River near Agness, Oregon. near Agness, Oregon. River the Rogue to is a tributary Creek ecosystems in the Shasta Costa Creek watershed. Shasta Costa Costa Shasta watershed. Creek Costa Shasta in the ecosystems together with the US Forest Service to restore oak savanna oak savanna restore Service to with the US Forest together and monitoring phases. The WRCFC's initial project is to work to is initial project phases. The WRCFC's and monitoring timely progress of projects through selection, planning, execution selection, planning, through of projects timely progress and private landowners and industries to support efficient and support efficient to and industries landowners and private lands within the Wild Rivers Coast geographic region. geographic Coast Rivers lands within the Wild Counties BLM, States, Tribes, with the USFS, engages The WRCFC Land Management (BLM), and other state, county and private and private county state, (BLM), and other Land Management Service Forest with Coordination beneficial uses of Tribes, public lands managed by the Bureau of by the Bureau public lands managed Tribes, uses of beneficial US Forest Service, Tribal Lands held in trust for the exclusive and the exclusive for Lands held in trust Service, Tribal US Forest in and around the National Forest system lands managed by the managed lands system Forest the National in and around being of watersheds, the forests they contain, and communities and communities contain, they the forests being of watersheds, a shared vision to protect and improve the resilience and well- the resilience and improve protect to vision a shared group of stakeholders who work together to create and implement implement and create to together work who stakeholders of group The Wild Rivers Coast Forest Collaborative (WRCFC) is a diverse is a diverse (WRCFC) Collaborative Forest Coast The Wild Rivers Mission/About Statement Mission/About District #3: Representative Carl Wilson (R) #3: Representative District District #1: Representative Wayne Krieger (R) Krieger Wayne #1: Representative District District #2: Senator Herman Baertschiger Jr. (R) Jr. Herman Baertschiger #2: Senator District District #1: Senator Jeff Kruse (R) Jeff #1: Senator District District #4: Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio #4: Peter District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Kim Hunter (541) 247-3636, [email protected] (541) 247-3636, [email protected] Service: Kim Hunter Forest Collaborative Group: Kendal Martel, Sustainable Northwest (503) 221-6911 x114 [email protected] Northwest Sustainable Kendal Martel, Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

Curry and Josephine Counties (additional in California) in California) (additional Curry Counties Josephine and Wild Rivers Coast Forest Collaborative Collaborative Forest Coast Rivers Wild Siuslaw National Forest National Siuslaw Facts Box Facts Established in 2001 Established to timber sales of 14 stewardship The award thinning,resulting in restoration accom¬plish treated; than 3,700 acres more restoration of 65 private-land The approval Forest on National and 59 projects projects land; planted of riparian areas 1,000 acres Over vegetation; with native receipts Nearly $3.3 million in retained into went timber sales stew-ardship from jobs; wage family creating restoration, funds in matching of $1.6 million Generation projects; restoration for Chiefs’ of the 2010 Two The award of the the Chiefs by Award, Partnership Natural Service and the USDA Forest U.S. recognizing Service, Conservation Resources forest and conservation to promote efforts stewardship All Lands Collaborative • • • • • • • • http://www.cascadepacificstewardship.org/ Watershed Councils Watershed Public Utilities Groups Conservation Organizations Environmental Non-Profit Environmental Groups Wildlife Federal Agencies Federal

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District #9: Representative Caddy McKeown (D Caddy McKeown #9: Representative District District #10: Representative David Gomberg (D) Gomberg David #10: Representative District District #12: Senator Brian Boquist (R) Brian Boquist #12: Senator District District #5: Senator Arnie Roblan (D) Arnie Roblan #5: Senator District District #4: Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio #4: Peter District District #5: Kurt Schrader (D) Schrader #5: Kurt District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Jeff Uebel, [email protected], 541-750-7015 Uebel, [email protected], Service: Jeff Forest Collaborative Group: Kirk Shimeall, Stewardship Coordinator, [email protected], 541-248-3094 [email protected], Coordinator, Kirk Shimeall, Stewardship Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact contributing to local economies. to local contributing has an impressive history of success restoring the land and of success restoring history has an impressive of Participation Diversity Siuslaw National Forest, in partnership with stewardship groups, groups, stewardship with in partnership Forest, National Siuslaw employment and contract opportunities to area businesses. The to area opportunities and contract employment These projects benefit local communities in that they provide provide they communities in that local benefit These projects monitor the ecological and economic impacts of the projects. impacts of the projects. and economic the ecological monitor They meet monthly and attend field trips to project locations to project locations to field trips and attend monthly meet They and prioritize proposals for future funding with stewardship funds. stewardship with funding for future proposals and prioritize needs of local communities. communities. needs of local also help evaluate lands. The groups on public and private projects promote ecological restoration and enhancement that meets the meets that enhancement and restoration ecological promote stewardship and monitor help plan, evaluate, groups Stewardship organizations from the local area that are working with the SNF to working with the SNF are that area the local from organizations Service Forest with Coordination (map). The stewardship groups are a collection of individuals and a collection are groups (map). The stewardship Siuslaw, and Smith-Umpqua-Dunes stewardship group areas areas group stewardship and Smith-Umpqua-Dunes Siuslaw, restoration projects located in the Alsea, Hebo, Marys Peak, Peak, Marys Alsea, Hebo, in the located projects restoration National Forest (SNF), and other partners to fund watershed watershed to fund (SNF), and other partners Forest National Pacific Resource Conservation and Development, the Siuslaw the Siuslaw Development, and Conservation Resource Pacific forest stewardship cooperative collaboration between Cascade Cascade between collaboration cooperative stewardship forest The Siuslaw Collaborative Watershed Restoration Program is a Program Restoration Watershed Collaborative The Siuslaw Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Tillamook, Yamhill, Polk, Lincoln, Benton, Lane Lane Benton, Lincoln, Polk, Yamhill, Tillamook, Siuslaw Collaborative Watershed Restoration Program Restoration Watershed Collaborative Siuslaw PAGE 24 PAGE 25 OREGON Siuslaw National Forest National Siuslaw Formed in 2017 Formed Formed in 2007 Formed Watershed River the Mary’s from Includes participants area. fish and improve that 4 projects As of 2016, completed species. invasive and control habitat wildlife in 2003 Formed area. River the Siuslaw from Includes partners with eradication on Japanese Knotweed Primary focus District. Conservation and Water Soil Siuslaw • • • • • • • Smith-Umpqua-Dunes Stewardship Stewardship Smith-Umpqua-Dunes (SUDSG) Group Mary’s Peak Stewardship Group Group Stewardship Peak Mary’s (MPSG) (SSG) Group Stewardship Siuslaw http://www.cascadepacificstewardship.org/ Formed in 2011 Formed River to Salmon Tillamook from Includes participants areas. the Hebo Ranger by lands managed on is focused Work District. enhance fish and that 4 projects As of 2016, completed and on roads, public safety improve habitat, wildlife species. invasive control when enthusiastic property on private also occur Projects their piece of restore to ways looking for are landowners the watershed. Includes participants from the Alsea and Yachats River River Yachats Alsea and the from Includes participants area. the Central by on the lands managed is focused Work District Ranger Coast noxious to related 10 projects As of 2016, completed restoration and river removal species and invasive week enhancement. and stream Formed in 2006 Formed

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Hebo Stewardship Group (HSG) Group Hebo Stewardship Alsea Stewardship Group (ASG) Group Stewardship Alsea

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WA- District #5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R) McMorris Rodgers #5 Cathy District WA- OR - District #58: Representative Greg Barreto (R) Barreto Greg #58: Representative OR - District OR - District #29: Senator Bill Hansell (R) #29: Senator OR - District OR - District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg OR - District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Joani Bosworth (541) 278-3722. Joani Bosworth Forest Service: Forest Nils Christofferson (541) 426-8053 Nils Christofferson Collaborative Group: Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

designated an Oregon Solutions Project in 2012. Solutions Project an Oregon designated of Participation Diversity pine plantations. The Kahler Dry Forest Restoration Project was Project Restoration Forest Kahler Dry The pine plantations. Glass Projects that focus on the restoration of off-site ponderosa ponderosa of off-site on the restoration focus that Glass Projects Kahler Dry Forest Restoration Project and the Thomas Creek and and the Thomas Creek Project Restoration Dry Forest Kahler Currently working with the Umatilla National Forest on the Forest National with the Umatilla working Currently Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination National Forest. National local community socioeconomic health in and near the Umatilla in and near the Umatilla health socioeconomic community local of stakeholders to improve and sustain ecological resiliency and resiliency ecological and sustain improve to of stakeholders To develop and promote balanced solutions from a diverse group group a diverse from balanced solutions and promote develop To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Asotin, Garfield, Columbia, Walla Walla, Baker, Grant, Union, Morrow, Wallowa, Umatilla, and Wheeler Counties Counties Wheeler and Umatilla, Wallowa, Morrow, Union, Grant, Baker, Walla, Walla Garfield,Asotin, Columbia, Umatilla Forest Collaborative Group Collaborative Forest Umatilla PAGE 26 PAGE 27 Umpqua National Forest National Umpqua Facts Box Facts • 501(C)(3) • All Lands Collaborative http://www.surcp.org/ Broad spectrum of grassroots community members community spectrum of grassroots Broad Non-Profits Environmental Regional of Indians Band of the Umpqua Tribe Creek Cow of Land Management Bureau of Fish and Wildlife Department Oregon Service Conservation Resource National Federal Agency Federal

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District #2: Representative Dallas Heard (R) Dallas Heard #2: Representative District District #7: Representative Cedric Hayden (R) Cedric Hayden #7: Representative District District #4: Senator Floyd Prozanski (D) Prozanski Floyd #4: Senator District District #4: Representative Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio Peter #4: Representative District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: (541) 825-3107 or [email protected] Donna Owens, Forest Contact Information Contact [email protected] Coordinator, Petrowski, Stan Group: Collaborative South Umpqua River watershed communities. watershed South Umpqua River of Participation Diversity partner-based projects as a 501C3 umbrella organization for the organization as a 501C3 umbrella projects partner-based economic interests of our region. We exist to facilitate and actuate and actuate facilitate to exist We of our region. interests economic forestry, aquatic habitat restoration, and the diverse social and and the diverse restoration, habitat aquatic forestry, to support community efforts of restoration ecology, restoration restoration ecology, restoration of efforts support community to The South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership was established established was Community Partnership Rural The South Umpqua Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination of a healthy environment through good stewardship practices. stewardship good through environment of a healthy To protect, restore and maintain our communities in the context context in the our communities and maintain restore protect, To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Douglas South Umpqua Rural Community Partnership Community Rural Umpqua South OREGON Umpqua National Forest National Umpqua Facts Box Facts • Public Lands Collaborative http://www.umpquafc.org/ Representative Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio Peter Representative (D) Prozanski Floyd Senator (R) Hayden Cedric Representative

Small woodlands owners Small woodlands Foresters practitioners resolution Conflict Community volunteer forester agency Federal firefighters Retired Local environmental groups environmental Local

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Diversity of Participation of Participation Diversity Copeland watersheds. projects such as designing a restoration project in the Calf- in the project a restoration such as designing projects Continue to work with Forest Service on landscape restoration restoration Service on landscape Forest work with to Continue Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination use and management of fuels on the Umpqua National Forest. of fuels on the Umpqua National use and management lands in Douglas County, Oregon. We are currently focused on fire on fire focused currently are We Oregon. lands in Douglas County, group that advocates for forest management activities on public activities management forest for advocates that group The Umpqua Forestry Coalition is a broad-based, community community a broad-based, Coalition is Forestry The Umpqua Mission/About Statement Mission/About County Douglas Umpqua Forestry Coalition Forestry Umpqua District #4: District #7: District

District #2: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: (541) 496-4142 or [email protected] Bill Mulholland, Forest Collaborative Group: Don Morrison, (541) 530-2420 or [email protected] Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact PAGE 28 PAGE 29 Wallowa Whitman National National Whitman Wallowa Wallowa Resources Wallowa Facts Box Facts Established in 2012 (Wallowa Resources est. est. Resources in 2012 (Wallowa Established 1996) Acreage: Planning Projects USFS Recent 21,00 treatment; 16,000 – mechanical appx. 21 Creek); Joseph burn (Lower prescribed miles of fencing Fiscal 501(c)3 (External Resources Wallowa Agent) • • • • Public Lands Collaborative http://www.wallowaresources.org/ Environmental Non-Profits Environmental Organizations Environmental Agencies State Timber Industry Commercial Agencies Federal Universities Local Government Local Groups and Hunting Wildlife Schools Local Groups and Grazing Rangeland Local Elected Officials Elected Local

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District #60: Representative Cliff Bentz (R) Cliff Bentz #60: Representative District District #30: Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli (R) Ferrioli Leader Ted Republican #30: Senate District District #2: Greg Walden (R) Walden #2: Greg District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal (541) 523-1201, [email protected] Forest Service: Tom Montoya, Forest Supervisor Forest Montoya, Service: Tom Forest Contact Information Contact (541) 426-8053 x30 Joe Costello, Group: Collaborative scale of active management of the Blue Mountains. management of active scale support Regional Forester Jim Pena’s focus on increasing pace and on increasing focus Jim Pena’s Forester support Regional in the NEPA process to reach effective and efficient solutions that solutions efficient and effective reach to process in the NEPA of Participation Diversity The Collaborative works with the Forest Service to find innovations innovations find to Service Forest the with works Collaborative The rangeland improvement, noxious weed treatments. treatments. weed noxious improvement, rangeland down woody (live and dead), in stream work, culvert work, work, culvert work, in stream and dead), (live woody down stands to historic range of variability, fuels reduction – ladder, – ladder, fuels reduction of variability, range historic to stands resource restoration recommendations such as: restoration of restoration such as: recommendations restoration resource by the Wallowa Country Collaborative. This project has numerous has numerous This project Collaborative. Country the Wallowa by Watershed Assessment issues and recommendations put forth put and recommendations issues Assessment Watershed The Collaborative is preparing to review the Lower Joseph Creek Creek Joseph the Lower review to preparing is The Collaborative Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination collaboration by a diverse group of stakeholders. of group by a diverse collaboration Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and local communities through through communities and local Forest National Wallowa-Whitman To improve the social, economic, and ecological resiliency of the resiliency and ecological the social, economic, improve To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Counties Baker and Union, Wallowa, Wallowa Whitman Forest Collaborative - Collaborative Forest Whitman Wallowa OREGON Willamette National Forest National Willamette Facts Box Facts Established in 2014 Established • • All Lands Collaborative http://southwillamette.wix.com/swfc Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio Peter (D) Schrader Kurt (D) Prozanski Floyd Senator (R) Cedric Hayden Representative (R) Girod Fred Senator Vic Gilliam (R) Representative Federal Agencies Federal Timber Industry Commercial Individual Citizens Universities Local

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District #4: District #5: District #4: District #7: District #9: District #18: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Darren Cross, Deputy District Ranger, Middle Fork Ranger District, 541-782-5253 [email protected] 541-782-5253 [email protected] District, Ranger Middle Fork Ranger, Deputy District Cross, Service: Darren Forest Collaborative Group: Sarah Altemus-Pope, 541-521-5786 [email protected] 541-521-5786 Altemus-Pope, Sarah Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact Fork Willamette River watershed. watershed. River Willamette Fork project to restore dry mixed conifer habitat in the Upper Middle habitat conifer dry mixed restore to project participating in a collaborative planning effort for the Rigdon for the effort planning collaborative in a participating receipts, and implementation monitoring. The SWFC is also SWFC The monitoring. and implementation receipts, of Participation Diversity area” for utilizing local workforce, prioritizing spending of retained retained prioritizing spending of workforce, utilizing local for area” recommendations for restoration activities, defining the “local defining the activities, restoration for recommendations relation to stewardship contracts, the committee will discuss: committee the contracts, stewardship to relation ecological restoration and resilience of the landscape. In resilience of the landscape. and restoration ecological Outlook Landscape Diversity Project (Outlook) to improve improve (Outlook) to Project Diversity Outlook Landscape stewardship contracts to meet the objectives of the proposed of the proposed the objectives meet to contracts stewardship forestlands. The MFRD would like to implement several several implement to like The MFRD would forestlands. Ranger District of the Willamette National Forest and adjacent and adjacent Forest National of the Willamette District Ranger The SWFC focuses on issues that impact the Middle Fork Middle Fork impact the on issues that focuses The SWFC nearby communities. nearby Service Forest with Coordination socioeconomic health for the southern Willamette forest area and area forest Willamette the southern for health socioeconomic forest management solutions that sustain ecological resiliency and ecological sustain solutions that management forest (SWFC) is to bring together interested parties to promote local local promote to parties interested together bring is to (SWFC) The purpose of the Southern Willamette Forest Collaborative Collaborative Forest Willamette of the Southern The purpose Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Lane Southern Willamette Forest Collaborative Collaborative Forest Willamette Southern PAGE 30 PAGE 31 OREGON Willamette National Forest National Willamette Facts Box Facts Hosted by Eugene Water and Electric Board Water Eugene by Hosted • • All Lands Collaborative http://www.cascadepacific.org/smartlist_113/ Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio Peter (D) Schrader Kurt (D) Prozanski Floyd Senator (R) Cedric Hayden Representative (R) Girod Fred Senator Vic Gilliam (R) Representative State Agencies State Public Utilities Council Watershed Organizations Environmental Representatives Industry Forest Federal Agencies Federal

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District #4: District #5: District #4: District #7: District #9: District #18: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Shane Kamrath, McKenzie River Ranger District – Natural Resources Staff Officer, (541) 822-7233, [email protected] [email protected] (541) 822-7233, Officer, Staff Resources – Natural District Ranger River McKenzie Service: Shane Kamrath, Forest Collaborative Group: Paul Hoobyar, Facilitator, (541) 345-4854, [email protected] Facilitator, Paul Hoobyar, Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

how to spend stewardship contracting receipts. contracting spend stewardship to how potential for new stewardship sales and/or recommendations for recommendations sales and/or stewardship new for potential recommendations relating to upcoming stewardship sales, stewardship to upcoming relating recommendations of Participation Diversity periodic memos to send to the Forest Service with specific the Forest send to periodic memos to The McKenzie Watershed Stewardship Group plans to produce produce plans to Group Stewardship Watershed The McKenzie as support local communities. as support local Treasury. This can both promote forest restoration projects as well as projects restoration forest both promote This can Treasury. placement, road decommissioning) instead of going to the General General the to going of instead decommissioning) road placement, fund other restoration work (such as culvert removal, large wood large removal, work (such as culvert fund other restoration the funds generated from the sale to remain in the watershed to to in the watershed remain the sale to from the funds generated contracts on timber sales in the McKenzie watershed would allow would allow watershed on timber sales in the McKenzie contracts as reducing wildfire risk and improving forest health. Stewardship Stewardship health. forest and improving risk wildfire as reducing long-term contracts to meet land-management objectives, such objectives, land-management meet to contracts long-term Stewardship contracting allows the Forest Service to enter into into to enter Service Forest the allows contracting Stewardship Collaborative. Collaborative. Service Forest with Coordination watershed. This group is a subcommittee of the McKenzie of the McKenzie subcommittee is a group This watershed. to initiate a ‘stewardship contracting’ group in the McKenzie in the McKenzie group contracting’ ‘stewardship a initiate to with a number of partners and the Willamette National Forest Forest National the Willamette and of partners with a number The Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB) has been working has been working (EWEB) Board & Electric Water The Eugene Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County & Linn Lane McKenzie Watershed Stewardship Group Stewardship Watershed McKenzie OREGON Willamette National Forest National Willamette Facts Box Facts Established in 2011 Established the CCLSP in 2012 helped the Funds from the Council initiate Watershed North Santiam process collaborative For- Santiam In December of 2014 the North to expanded its boundary Collaborative est Watershed. Santiam North include the entire Water- the Breitenbush called formerly Was Collaborative shed Stakeholder All Lands Collaborative • • • • • http://northsantiam.org/northsantiamforestcollaborative/ Kurt Schrader (D) Schrader Kurt (D) Prozanski Floyd Senator (R) Cedric Hayden Representative

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District #4: District #7: District District #5: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Grady McMahan, Detroit Ranger District – District Ranger, (503) 854-4200, [email protected] Ranger, – District District Ranger McMahan, Detroit Service: Grady Forest Collaborative Group: Rebecca McCoun, Council Coordinator, (503) 930-8202, [email protected] McCoun, Council Coordinator, Rebecca Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact discuss on the ground issues. discuss on the ground of Participation Diversity North Santiam Forest Collaborative to view proposed projects and projects and proposed to view Collaborative Forest North Santiam around Detroit Lake. The Forest Service leads field tours with Servicetours leads field The Forest Lake. Detroit around activities that are occurring in the Breitenbush Watershed and Watershed Breitenbush are occurring in the activities that Service Detroit Ranger District on project planning and restoration planning and restoration on project District Ranger Service Detroit The North Santiam Watershed Council works with the US Forest Forest the US with works Council Watershed The North Santiam Canyon. Service Forest with Coordination contributing to the economy and job market of the North Santiam of the North Santiam and job market economy to the contributing the headwaters of the North Santiam River Watershed while Watershed River of the North Santiam the headwaters ultimately improve the ecosystem function and resilience of function and the ecosystem improve ultimately to identify and address the issues and opportunities that will that and opportunities the issues address and identify to To draw upon the knowledge base of a diverse collaborative collaborative base of a diverse the knowledge upon draw To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County & Linn Marion North Santiam Forest Collaborative Forest Santiam North PAGE 32 PAGE 33 OREGON Willamette National Forest National Willamette Facts Box Facts Culvert and large wood and large Culvert species removal Invasive Watershed Council Established in 1996 Council Established Watershed lands 40% public lands 60% private that project “Cool Soda” is the overarching o Thinning o restoration Habitat o o • • • All Lands Collaborative • on: focuses http://www.sswc.org/what-we-do/sweet-home-all-lands-approach/ Peter DeFazio (D) DeFazio Peter (D) Schrader Kurt (D) Prozanski Floyd Senator (R) Cedric Hayden Representative (R) Girod Fred Senator Vic Gilliam (R) Representative Commercial Timber Industry Commercial Government Local Community Organizations Council Watershed Universities Local Federal Agencies Federal

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District #4: District #5: District #4: District #7: District #9: District #18: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Nikki Swanson, Sweet Home Ranger District – District Ranger, (541) 367-3145, [email protected] Ranger, – District District Home Ranger Sweet Service: Nikki Swanson, Forest Collaborative Group: Eric Andersen, South Santiam Watershed Council – Council Coordinator, (541) 367-5564, [email protected] (541) 367-5564, [email protected] Council – Council Coordinator, Watershed South Santiam Eric Andersen, Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

Home. of Participation Diversity watershed restoration, and recreation opportunities near Sweet Sweet opportunities near recreation and restoration, watershed to plan and implement projects that will provide employment, employment, will provide that projects plan and implement to Linn County, the City of Sweet Home, and other local organizations organizations local Home, and other City of Sweet the Linn County, Cascade Timber Consulting, South Santiam Watershed Council, Watershed Timber Consulting,Cascade South Santiam The SSALC is working with the Sweet Home Ranger District, District, Home Ranger with the Sweet is working The SSALC Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination and sustainable economic growth. economic and sustainable is to steward water, land and cultural resources to deliver needed deliver to resources and cultural land water, steward is to The mission of the South Santiam All Lands Collaborative (SSALC) (SSALC) Lands Collaborative All of the South Santiam The mission Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Linn South Santiam All Lands Collaborative Collaborative Lands All Santiam South Colville National Forest Forest National Colville Facts Box Facts Established in 2002 Established projects management • • 25 forest in planning of over Participated • 501(c)3 • Public Lands Collaborative http://www.newforestrycoalition.org/ Senator Patty Murray (D), Senator Maria Cantwell (D), Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R) Rodgers McMorris Cathy Representative (D), Maria Cantwell (D), Senator Murray Patty Senator (R) Kretz Joel Representative Shelly Short (R), Brian Dansel (R), Representative Senator State Agencies State Groups Conservation Non-Profits Environmental Public Utilities Northwest Conservation Timber Industry Commercial Recreation Non-Motorized Government Local Universities Local Officials Elected Local Federal Agencies Federal

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District #7: District District #5: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Kathleen Ward, Natural Resources Staff Officer, Phone: 509-684-7106, Email: [email protected] Phone: 509-684-7106, Email: Officer, Staff Resources Natural Ward, Service: Kathleen Forest Collaborative Group: Gloria Flora, Interim Executive Director, Email: [email protected] Director, Executive Interim Gloria Flora, Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact projects. individuals to communicate concerns to the CNF about individual to concerns communicate individuals to Determining Level of Support for a Project.” This document allows allows This document a Project.” for of Support Level Determining of Participation Diversity together. The CNF and the NWFC also created a “Protocol for for a “Protocol also created The CNF and the NWFC together. their interaction and communications as they continue to work to continue as they communications and their interaction the CNF and NWFC was signed that explains the nature of nature the explains that signed was the CNF and NWFC workshop, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between (MOU) between of Understanding a Memorandum workshop, participate in a three-day workshop on collaboration. From that that From collaboration. on workshop in a three-day participate was approached by Colville National Forest (CNF) and asked to asked (CNF) and Forest Colville National by approached was In 2005 the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition (NWFC) (NWFC) Coalition Forestry Washington In 2005 the Northeast Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination vitality. enhance forest health, public safety and community economic economic and community public safety health, enhance forest To demonstrate the full potential of restoration forestry to forestry restoration of the full potential demonstrate To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Counties and Ferry Oreille, Pend Stevens, Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition Forestry Washington Northeast PAGE 34 PAGE 35 WASHINGTON Gifford Pinchot National Forest National Pinchot Gifford Facts Box Facts Established in 2003 Established roads, decommissioned that 6 Projects and watersheds, and plantations restored monitoring of 31,253 acres Inventory Stand Completed Title II funding and retained Has received to contracting stewardship from receipts implementation support project Public Lands Collaborative Huckleberry Restoration Patch Pole provided project stewardship successful opportunity and restored economic and with collaborative resource important tribal engagement. • • • • • • www.pinchotpartners.org Jamie Tolfree, Coordinator, (360) 334-2555, [email protected] Coordinator, Jamie Tolfree, Gar Abbas, (360) 497-1105, [email protected] Ranger District Senator Patty Murray (D), Senator Maria Cantwell (D), Representative Jamie Herrera Beutler (R) Jamie Herrera Representative (D), Maria Cantwell (D), Senator Murray Patty Senator Orcutt (R) T. Ed Representative DeBolt (R), Richard (R), Representative John Braun Senator

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Collaborative Group: Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact #3: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Forest [email protected] (360) 891-5156, Tracy Calizon, Officer Staff Community Engagement #20: District

grant-funded projects to increase collaborative capacity. collaborative increase to projects grant-funded of Participation Diversity collaborative meetings and work closely with Pinchot Partners on Partners closely with Pinchot work and meetings collaborative Gifford Pinchot National Forest staff actively participate in monthly in participate actively staff Forest National Pinchot Gifford gridlock and toward work being implemented on the ground. on the ground. being implemented work gridlock and toward development of a common ground agenda that leads away from from away leads that agenda ground of a common development The Forest Service has a clear interest in supporting the Service interest has a clear The Forest Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination jobs recreation opportunities and benefit watershed health. watershed and benefit opportunities recreation jobs areas to promote policies and projects that create quality local local quality create that policies and projects promote to areas To work with the Cowlitz Valley Ranger District and surrounding surrounding and District Ranger Valley with the Cowlitz work To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Lewis Pinchot Partners Pinchot GIfford Pinchot National Forest Forest National Pinchot GIfford Facts Box Facts Collaboratives River and Lewis Adams District in 2008) formed which were Stewardship Resource and Natural 6 Forest 75,000 acres over Projects, Retained dollars, Title II RAC support from and CCLS funds) (stewardship Receipts • of the Mt. in 2011 (a combination Established • • and project group some funding for Receives • Public Lands Collaborative http://www.southgpc.org/ Lisa Naas Cook, [email protected] (509) 395-3401, [email protected] Emily Platt, Ranger District Senator Patty Murray (D), Senator Maria Cantwell (D), Representative Jamie Herrera Beutler (R) Jamie Herrera Representative (D), Maria Cantwell (D), Senator Murray Patty Senator Gina McCabe (R) Representative Norm Johnson (R), Representative Curtis King (R), Senator

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Collaborative Group: Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact #3: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Forest [email protected] (360) 891-5156, Tracy Calizon, Officer Staff Community Engagement #14: District

expertise. of Participation Diversity about project areas, and to share natural resource and technical and technical resource natural share and to areas, about project and is present for meeting and field trips in order to provide data data provide to order in field trips and meeting for and is present The Forest Service serves as a non-voting member with the group member with the group Servicea non-voting as serves The Forest communities. Service Forest with Coordination end of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and in surrounding and in surrounding Forest Pinchot National end of the Gifford forest ecosystem health, recreation and public safety on the south and public safety recreation health, ecosystem forest and implementation of projects that enhance economic vitality, vitality, economic enhance that of projects and implementation partnership that participates in the development, facilitation, facilitation, the development, in participates that partnership The South Gifford Pinchot Collaborative is a community based community is a Pinchot Collaborative Gifford The South Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Skamania South Gifford Pinchot Collaborative Pinchot Gifford South PAGE 36 PAGE 37 WASHINGTON Facts Box Facts Mt-Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest National Mt-Baker-Snoqualmie Established in 2015 Established and habitat forest improve Landslide to economy local the strengthen school district. local to STEM • • the deadly Oso after year one Created • Public Lands Collaborative • http://www.darringtoncollaborative.org/ Senator Patty Murray (D), Senator Maria Cantwell (D), Representative Suzan DelBene (D) Suzan Representative (D), Maria Cantwell (D), Senator Murray Patty Senator Scott (R) Elizabeth Representative (R), Kristiansen Dan (R), Representative Kirk Pearson Senator Local Elected Officials Elected Local Timber Industry Commercial Organizations Environmental and Schools Universities Local Groups Conservation organizations Based non-profit Science and Education Agencies Federal

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District #39: District District #1: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Forest Service: Peter Forbes, Darrington District Ranger, 360-436-2301, [email protected] Ranger, District Darrington Forbes, Service: Peter Forest Collaborative Group: [email protected] Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

STEM program. STEM and educational opportunities for Darrington’s youth through the through youth for Darrington’s opportunities and educational of Participation Diversity and provide economic benefits to the community of Darrington community of Darrington to the benefits economic and provide on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest near Darrington, near Darrington, Forest National on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie resilient forest, provide for increased, sustainable timber harvests harvests timber sustainable increased, for provide forest, resilient strives to show they can simultaneously create a more ecologically ecologically a more create simultaneously can they show to strives functioning of our forests and watersheds. and forests functioning of our The collaborative goals. of achieving in the way stand issues that Forest in the Darrington vicinity while improving the ecological the ecological vicinity while improving Darrington in the Forest to address officials federal with together works The collaborative Northwest Forest Plan on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National National Plan on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie Forest Northwest Service Forest with Coordination of increasing ecologically sustainable timber harvest under the under timber harvest sustainable ecologically of increasing from federal, state and local government around shared goals goals shared around government and local state federal, from and Math (STEM) youth education programs and representatives representatives and programs education youth (STEM) and Math timber industry, Darrington Science, Technology, Engineering, Technology, Science, Darrington timber industry, environmental community, members of the local Darrington Darrington of the local members community, environmental from the community of Darrington, WA, the Puget Sound the Puget WA, of Darrington, the community from The Darrington Collaborative brings together stakeholders stakeholders together brings Collaborative The Darrington Mission/About Statement Mission/About

County Snohomish Darrington Collaborative Darrington Facts Box Facts Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Forest National Okanogan-Wenatchee Established in 2013 Established appx. Acreage: Planning Projects USFS Recent 27,500 (3 projects) • • • Public Lands Collaborative http://www.ucsrb.org/ncwfhc/ Senator Patty Murray (D), Senator Maria Cantwell (D), Representative David Reichert (R) David Representative (D), Maria Cantwell (D), Senator Murray Patty Senator DelBene (D) Suzan Representative (D), Maria Cantwell (D), Senator Murray Patty Senator Hawkins (R) Brad Representative (R), Cary Condotta Representative (R), Parlette Linda Evans Senator Scott (R) Elizabeth Representative (R), Kristiansen Dan (R) Representative Kirk Pearson Senator (R) Manweller Matt Representative (R), Tom Dent (R), Representative Judy Warnick Senator

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District #8: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal #1: District #12: District #39: District #13: District Forest Service: Susan Thomas, Partnership Coordinator, (509) 548-2563 [email protected] Coordinator, Service: Partnership Susan Thomas, Forest Director, (509) 888-0321, [email protected] Director, Collaborative Group: Melody Kreimes, Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board Forest Health Program Manager & Interim Executive Executive & Interim Manager Program Health Forest Board Recovery Upper Columbia Salmon Kreimes, Melody Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact conditions due to large scale wildfires in 2015. wildfires scale to large due conditions of Participation Diversity and/or adjust the project as needed based on recent changed changed as needed based on recent the project adjust and/or input may increase support for implementation, monitoring, implementation, for support increase input may Methow Valley, Wenatchee River, and Tonasket. Collaborative Collaborative and Tonasket. River, Wenatchee Valley, Methow identify restoration needs on the following Ranger Districts: Districts: Ranger following needs on the restoration identify Forest Health Collaborative on several priority projects that that priority projects on several Collaborative Health Forest The Forest Service is working with the North Central Washington Washington North Central with the Service is working The Forest economies in Chelan and Okanogan Counties. and Okanogan in Chelan economies Service Forest with Coordination promote utilization of natural resources, and support local local and support resources, natural of utilization promote protect natural resources, provide recreational opportunities, opportunities, recreational provide resources, natural protect forest resiliency, preserve terrestrial and aquatic wildlife habitat, habitat, wildlife and aquatic terrestrial preserve resiliency, forest To advance forest health through transparent actions that improve improve that actions transparent through health forest advance To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Counties Chelan and Okanogan North Central Washington Forest Health Collaborative Health Forest Washington Central North PAGE 38 PAGE 39 WASHINGTON Facts Box Facts Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest National Okanogan-Wenatchee Established in 2007 (Previously known as the known in 2007 (Previously Established Collaborative) Tieton All Lands Collaborative Activities include: Restoration Weed Control and Restoration Plant Native Health Forest of Restoration Access Forest Use and Recreational Species of Threatened Recovery Protection Environmental and Outreach Education Technologies Value-added Accomplishments: 5 Year funds 99,123 leveraged noxious and plants of invasive 3,966 acres removed weeds restored habitat of wildlife 17,800 acres and improved 558.5 miles of roads maintained • • CFLR • • • • • • • • • • • • • • http://www.tapash.org/ Patty Murray (D), Maria Cantwell (D), David Reichert (Rep/R) David (D), (D), Maria Cantwell Murray Patty (Rep/R) Hawkins Brad (Rep/R), (R), Cary Condotta Linda Parlettte (Rep/R) Manweller Matt (Rep/R), Dent (R), Tom Judy Warnick Gina McCabe (Rep/R) Curtis King (R), Norm Johnson (Rep/R), (Rep/R.) Wilcox J.T. Barkis (Rep/R), (R), Andrew Randi Becker (Rep/R) Chris Hurst (Rep/R), Stokesbary Drew (R), Roach Pam (Rep/R) Chad Magendanz (Rep/R), Rodne (D), Jay Mark Mullet cial Timber Industry Chinook Pass Cabin Owners Chinook Pass Northwest Conservation Groups Recreation Motorized Groups Conservation Government Local Agencies State Agencies Federal Council Fire Prescribed Washington Groups Tribal Groups and Hunting Fisheries, Wildlife Groups Recreation Non-Motorized Non-Profits Environmental Non-Motorized Recreation Non-Motorized Commer

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Washington Department of Natural Resources administered land. administered Resources of Natural Department Washington Clockum State Wildlife Areas, the Ahtanum State Forest, and other Forest, State the Ahtanum Areas, Wildlife State Clockum dry and mesic forest types, the Oak Creek, L.T. Murrary, and Murrary, L.T. types, the Oak Creek, dry and mesic forest Lands incorporated include Naches and Cle Elum Ranger District District Cle Elum Ranger include Naches and Lands incorporated of Participation Diversity been completed and the strategy is already being implemented. being implemented. is already and the strategy been completed the southern most portion of the analysis area where planning has where area portion of the analysis the southern most 920,000 acre landscape and prioritizes initial treatments (FY10) in treatments initial and prioritizes landscape 920,000 acre and the Naches Ranger District. This Tapash proposal considers a considers proposal This Tapash District. and the Naches Ranger Forest Sciences Lab, the Okanogan-Wenatchee Supervisors Office, Supervisors Lab, the Okanogan-Wenatchee Sciences Forest was/is being developed through a collaborative effort between the between effort collaborative a through developed being was/is Forest Restoration Strategy (2010, in prep). The Forest strategy strategy Forest The (2010, in prep). Strategy Restoration Forest as Tapash) proposal finds its’ basis in the Okanogan-Wenatchee in the Okanogan-Wenatchee finds its’ basis proposal as Tapash) The Tapash Sustainable Forest Collaborative (hereafter referred to referred (hereafter Collaborative Forest Sustainable The Tapash Coordination with Forest Service Forest with Coordination science, community input and adaptive management. adaptive input and science, community landscape through active restoration projects backed by best by best projects backed restoration active through landscape To improve the ecosystem health and natural functions of the functions of the and natural health the ecosystem improve To Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Chelan, Kittitas and Yakima Counties Counties Yakima and Kittitas Chelan, Tapash Sustainable Forest Collaborative Forest Sustainable Tapash

District # 8: District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal #12: District #13: District #14: District #2: District #31: District #5: District Forest Service: Amanda Velasquez, CFLR Coordinator Okanogan-Wenatchee NF, [email protected] (509) 664-9212 [email protected] NF, Okanogan-Wenatchee Coordinator CFLR Service: Amanda Velasquez, Forest Collaborative Group: Laura Potash, Executive Coordinator, [email protected] (206) 678-7866 [email protected] Coordinator, Executive Potash, Laura Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact Olympic National Forest Forest National Olympic Facts Box Facts Established May 8, 2015 May Established • • Public Lands Collaborative http://www.olympicforestcollaborative.org/ Conservation Groups Conservation Organizations Environmental Non-Profits Environmental Groups Wildlife Societies Professional Organizations Recreation information resource Offering and technical knowledge local data, Sharing historical expertise resource contractors. with local working Sharing experience Commercial Timber Industry Commercial Being committed to collaborative process and maintain maintain process and collaborative to Being committed etc. project planning, at meetings, engagement active Serving as a non-voting member Serving as a non-voting

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District # 35: Senator Tim Sheldon (D), Representative Dan Griffey (R), Representative Drew MacEwen (R) Drew MacEwen Representative (R), Dan Griffey Tim Sheldon (D), Representative # 35: Senator District District #24: Senator Jim Hargrove (D), Representative Kevin Van De Wege (D), Representative Steve Tharinger (D) Tharinger Steve Representative (D), Wege Van De Kevin (D), Representative Jim Hargrove #24: Senator District District #6: Senator Patty Murray (D), Senator Maria Cantwell (D), Representative Derek Kilmer (D) Derek Representative (D), Maria Cantwell (D), Senator Murray Patty #6: Senator District Federal and State Congressional Districts and Representatives Districts Congressional and State Federal Tim Davis, Natural Resources Staff Officer, (360) 956-2430, [email protected] (360) 956-2430, Officer, Staff Resources Natural Tim Davis, Forest Service: Reta Laford, Forest Supervisor, (360) 956-2301, [email protected] (360) 956-2301, Supervisor, Forest Laford, Service: Reta Forest Collaborative Group: TBD Group: Collaborative Contact Information Contact

Diversity of Participation of Participation Diversity communities on the Peninsula. on the communities of: a minimum consists Service at of the Forest The Role National Forest, and provide economic benefits to timber benefits economic and provide Forest, National Service Forest with Coordination provide for increased, sustainable timber harvests on the Olympic timber harvests sustainable increased, for provide simultaneously create a more environmentally sound forest, sound forest, environmentally a more create simultaneously and watersheds. Ultimately, the purpose is to show we can we to show is the purpose Ultimately, and watersheds. Forest while benefiting the environmental quality of forests forests quality of environmental the while benefiting Forest goals of increasing timber harvest from the Olympic National the Olympic National from timber harvest of increasing goals to address issues that stand in the way of achieving the shared shared the of achieving in the way stand issues that address to The Collaborative will work together and with federal officials officials federal and with together work will The Collaborative Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Counties & Mason Jefferson, Harbor, Grays Clallam, Olympic Forest Collaborative Forest Olympic PAGE 40 PAGE 41 WASHINGTON Facts Box Facts The 2007 SWAT Action Plan laid out an ambitious The 2007 SWAT estimated an costing projects of 42 restoration set as of 2016, of $48.6 million. Remarkably, total been more-have virtually all of these projects-and million nearing completion--$12 or are completed Forest. on Olympic National decommissioning, priority road all high As of 2016, identified and conversion-to-trail closure, road Olympic on the implemented been in plan have of this program The success Forest. National and the support of SWAT the to due is largely of $6.6 million in and receipt Tribe Skokomish the for targeted Funds and Trails Roads Legacy watershed. made over has been progress While tremendous the upper stabilizing particularly in decade, the past much work estuary, and Skokomish watershed fisheries and degraded severely recover to remains valley. conditions in the flood prone improve • • • http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/olympic/workingtogether/partnerships/?cid=stelprdb5399978 Olympic National Forest Forest National Olympic http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/olympic/workingtogether/partnerships/?cid=stelprdb5399978 Dean Yoshina, District Ranger, Hood Canal Ranger District, 360-765-2201, [email protected] District, Hood Canal Ranger Ranger, District Dean Yoshina, [email protected] 360-956-2430, Officer, Staff Resource Natural Tim Davis, Kilmer (D) Derek Representative (D), Maria Cantwell (D), Senator Murray Patty Senator (R) Drew MacEwen Representative (R), Dan Griffey Tim Sheldon (D), Representative Senator (D) Tharinger Steve Representative (D), Wege Van De Kevin (D), Representative Jim Hargrove Senator komish Tribe komish Sko District Mason Conservation Company Diamond Resource Green Coalition Olympic Forest The Wilderness Society Club Sierra Power Tacoma Forest Olympic National agencies State governments, Local residents valley citizens, Independent representatives Congressional Community businesses groups Conservation

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District #6: District and Representatives Districts Congressional # 35: District #24: District Forest Service: Forest Contact Information Contact (206) 890-3529, [email protected] The Wilderness Society, Anderson, Mike Group: Collaborative com/FullSWATUpdate2016 Plan Update. Download the full digital copy from http://tinyurl. from copy the full digital Download Plan Update. Action Plan and recently in the 2016 Skokomish Watershed Action Watershed in the 2016 Skokomish recently Action Plan and These restoration projects were identified in the 2007 SWAT 3-Year SWAT 2007 in the identified were projects restoration These of Participation Diversity wood enhancement project that installed 30 log jam structures. installed that project enhancement wood maintenance, replacement of four trail bridges, and a 2010 large and a 2010 large bridges, trail of four replacement maintenance, individual culvert upgrades, fish passage improvements, road improvements, fish passage upgrades, individual culvert closures, conversion-to-trail, storm damage risk reduction, risk reduction, damage storm conversion-to-trail, closures, Restorative actions have included road decommissioning, road road decommissioning, included have actions Restorative $12 million in restoration work in the Skokomish River Watershed. Watershed. River work in the Skokomish $12 million in restoration environmental health, fisheries and quality of life. health, fisheries and quality of environmental over has completed other partners, and several Tribe, Skokomish partnerships that are dedicated to restoring the watershed’s the watershed’s restoring to dedicated are that partnerships the SWAT, with the Service in collaboration Since 2005, the Forest is a time of healing for the Skokomish, aided by collaborative collaborative by aided for the Skokomish, is a time of healing Service Forest with Coordination residents of the watershed. The first part of the 21st century century part of the 21st The first of the watershed. residents production took a toll on the river, the fish and wildlife, and the the fish and wildlife, on the river, toll took a production extraordinary amounts of timber and hydropower, but that but that hydropower, of timber and amounts extraordinary During the 20th century, the Skokomish watershed produced produced watershed the Skokomish During the 20th century, Skokomish watershed. watershed. Skokomish managers, and others working collaboratively to restore a healthy a healthy restore to collaboratively working and others managers, in 2005 as a diverse, informal partnership of governments, land land of governments, partnership informal a diverse, in 2005 as The Skokomish Watershed Action Team (SWAT) was established was established Team (SWAT) Action Watershed The Skokomish Mission/About Statement Mission/About

Mason County County Mason Skokomish Watershed Action Team Action Watershed Skokomish PAGE 42 PAGE 43 Part 2 Part A list of collaboration related authorities related of collaboration A list Collaboration on the Public Involvement Public Involvement Collaboration on the Continuum Five benefits of working collaboratively of working Five benefits Typical roles of Forest Service employees in the Service employees roles of Forest Typical process collaborative When to use a collaborative approach use a collaborative When to Ten Principles of Collaboration Ten i. v. ii. iv. vi. iii. collaborative efforts across the Region. Included are: across the efforts collaborative

included some tips that can help support employees as they engage in as they can help support employees that included some tips

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Collaboration Tips and Tools: Tools: and Tips Collaboration

(April 13, 2015) capacity within the Agency. within the Agency. capacity These documents were developed by Ann Moote, Mamut Consulting, and Maia Enzer, US Forest Service, to help advance collaborative collaborative advance to help Service, Forest US Enzer, Mamut Consulting, and Maia Ann Moote, by were developed These documents Contact: Maia Enzer at [email protected] Maia Enzer Contact: is welcome. feedback and considered living document in this section are The documents to achieve more innovative and widely supported decisions. Work to understand different different to understand Work decisions. and widely supported innovative more achieve to to maintain trust and avoid unnecessary conflict. Keep agreements and respond to questions to questions respond and Keep agreements unnecessary conflict. and avoid trust maintain to

to operate effectively and efficiently. Clear protocols about how decisions will about protocols Clear efficiently. and effectively operate to Use clear rules of engagement Be accountable Be accountable to build trust. This includes sharing information about agency protocols, budgets, and and budgets, protocols, about agency This includes sharing information build trust. to transparency Practice to create capacity for collaborative planning and action. Use the collaborative process to process collaborative planning and action. Use the collaborative for capacity create to Build relationships to learn and improve. Collaboration is an opportunity for creativity. Be willing to consider different consider different to Be willing for creativity. is an opportunity Collaboration improve. learn and to risks Take to maintain the integrity and accountability of the collaborative process. Collaboration must be must Collaboration process. of the collaborative and accountability the integrity maintain to Be inclusive Embrace diversity diversity Embrace to achieve more effective and implementable results. Collaborative processes are inherently are inherently processes results. Collaborative and implementable effective more achieve to together Work

the integrity of the collaborative process. Decision-making rules should address when to use consensus as to use when Decision-making rules should address process. of the collaborative the integrity how information will be communicated to the media and others outside of the group are essential to protecting protecting to essential are outside of the group and others to the media communicated will be information how be made, participants’ roles and responsibilities, how the group will make recommendations to the agency, and agency, to the recommendations group will make how the responsibilities, roles and be made, participants’

8. around the issue. around collaborative group decisions. If decisions are not supported, quickly commit to re-engage the collaborative group collaborative the re-engage to commit quickly not supported, decisions. If decisions are group collaborative and requests for information. Check in with chain of command to ensure line officers understand and will support understand line officers to ensure command Check in with chain of information. for and requests 7. process should be equally transparent. process affect other participants without informing the group. The collaborative group’s structure and decision-making structure group’s collaborative group. The the informing without other participants affect taken, and how collaborative group input informs decisions and actions. Do not take unilateral action that may that action unilateral take decisions and actions. Do not input informs group collaborative and how taken, of upcoming planning, decisions, and actions. Explain how and why decisions were made or specific actions were made or specific actions were decisions planning,of upcoming actions. Explain how decisions, and and why 6. group abreast Keep the work. agency in involvement group collaborative for as opportunities as well constraints communication: maintain communication outside of meetings, even during low-activity periods. low-activity periods. even during of meetings, outside communication maintain communication: is equally important to follow through on agreed-upon actions. Relationships are built through regular, informal informal regular, through are built Relationships actions. on agreed-upon through follow to is equally important relationships takes time: it is necessary to work through contentious issues and come to agreement on actions. It agreement to come issues and contentious work through to time: it is necessary takes relationships develop a network of people who share information and resources and work together to solve projects. Building projects. to solve together work and resources and information of people who share a network develop 5. ideas and recognize small mistakes and setbacks as learning opportunities that can inform future work. future can inform that as learning opportunities and setbacks mistakes small ideas and recognize approaches, even when they run counter to established best practices or past experience. Experiment with new with new experience. Experiment or past practices best established to run counter when they even approaches,

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interested in the process but are unable or choose not to engage directly. directly. engage unable or choose not to but are in the process interested effort. Make clear and identifiable efforts to maintain communication with those who may be affected by or affected be may with those who communication maintain to efforts and identifiable clear Make effort. open to anyone who wishes to participate. Work to have all stakeholder interests represented in the collaborative collaborative in the represented interests stakeholder all to have Work participate. who wishes to anyone open to 3. at problems from fresh perspectives and develop different approaches to solving them. approaches different and develop perspectives fresh from problems at mandates, philosophies, expertise, areas of experience, and areas of influence. That diversity helps the group look the helps diversity That of influence. and areas experience, of areas philosophies, expertise, mandates,

2. invested in the process and its outcomes. and its outcomes. in the process invested the group’s ability to accomplish shared goals. Share ownership in group decisions to ensure all participants feel all participants ensure to decisions group in ownership Share goals. shared accomplish to ability the group’s important to make the work meaningful to everyone. Leverage the assets of all the participants to maximize to maximize of all the participants the assets Leverage everyone. to meaningful the work make to important about sharing vision, credit, and accountability for the success and challenges of the effort. Agree on what’s on what’s Agree the effort. of and challenges the success for and accountability credit, about sharing vision, 1. principles embody both the spirit and best practices of the art of collaboration. of the art of practices both the spirit and best principles embody agreement and disagreement, and working together to identify new and better ways of moving forward. These moving ways of and better new identify to together and working and disagreement, agreement involves sharing information and ideas to expand everyone’s knowledge of the situation, identifying areas of the situation, identifying of knowledge everyone’s expand to and ideas sharing information involves Collaboration is a process in which people with diverse views work together to achieve a common purpose. It common purpose. a to achieve together work views with diverse in which people is a process Collaboration Ten Principles of Collaboration of Principles Ten PAGE 44 PAGE 45 TIPS and TOOLS

to ensure projects are proportional to the trust and agreements that have been have that and agreements to the trust proportional are projects ensure to scale the right at Collaborate your work to capture learning and support adaptive management. Periodically evaluate evaluate Periodically management. learning and support adaptive capture to work your and evaluate Monitor

moving towards tougher issues, accelerated project design and/or larger geographic scales. scales. geographic larger design and/or project issues, accelerated tougher towards moving made. This may mean building on initial agreements and smaller project areas, taking steps to learn together before before together to learn steps taking areas, and smaller project building on initial agreements mean made. This may

10. and using those findings to inform future actions. future to inform findings and using those monitoring requirements); it is about demonstrating accountability, understanding the impacts of actions taken, taken, the impacts of actions understanding accountability, it is about demonstrating requirements); monitoring the concerns. Collaborative monitoring is not about generating a volume of data (or duplicating existing agency existing (or duplicating data volume of a generating is not about monitoring Collaborative the concerns. for more complex and larger actions. The level of rigor in monitoring protocols should be sufficient to address to address should be sufficient protocols in monitoring of rigor The level actions. and larger complex more for provide accountability, build a deeper understanding of the effects of decisions and actions, and build support of decisions and actions, and of the effects build a deeper understanding accountability, provide progress toward goals and identify lessons learned. Monitor effects of experimental and controversial actions to actions controversial and experimental of effects learned. Monitor lessons and identify goals toward progress 9. implementation of the governing process, including clarifying the scope and authority of the group. of the group. and authority clarifying including scope the process, governing of the implementation participate in the group’s formal decision-making process, but should support the group in their development and their development in group support the but should process, formal decision-making in the group’s participate opposed to voting and what to do in the event agreement cannot be reached. Forest Service employees should not should Service employees Forest reached. cannot be agreement event the to do in what and voting to opposed Find the appropriate channels to ensure all relevant people from the people from all relevant ensure channels to Find the appropriate Ensure the collaborative group knows about and understands agency agency about and understands knows group the collaborative Ensure Ensure the collaborative group has a plan to maximize involvement of involvement to maximize has a plan group the collaborative Ensure Contributing technical and subject matter expertise is invaluable to the invaluable expertise is and subject matter technical Contributing Provide maps and current National Forest data and information to help focus discussions and build help to and information data Forest National and current maps Provide information present Only presentations. long and detailed overly avoid but of conditions, understanding context. economic social, and/or the ecological, to is relevant that will that in a manner information share sharing knowledge: when judgments and value absolutes Avoid deepen, and enrich their discussion. broaden, to help the group find out.” “I don’t know” and “Let’s say, Be willing to answers. no one has all the that Acknowledge and lessons learned technology, science, new bring new field and in your of developments abreast Keep discussion. the into elsewhere of various consequences and economic ecological design and analyzing with project the group Assist options. management have participants group collaborative Many in the group. of others the knowledge to and listen Recognize colleagues and people these individuals as view and expertise; knowledge social, or economic ecological, you). as them from (as well learn from can you • • • • • •

Forest Service process interpreter: interpreter: Service process Forest and recruiter: communicator Internal leader: and relationship Outreach collaborative process and most groups rely heavily on the Forest Service for this input. Some tips for the SME tips for this input. Some Service Forest on the heavily rely groups and most process collaborative include: information Provide of flexibility. well as areas as constraints and deadlines, expectations, policies, procedures, of informed Keep the group planning, and other processes. budgeting, understand will help the group that and process, award contract process, the NEPA – throughout encountered bottlenecks – and any progress implementation. project informed about the are Office) Washington and/or Office, Regional Office, Supervisor’s Service (District, Forest any suggestions Bring when appropriate. to participate encouraged and are process of the collaborative work for discussion. group the collaborative back to raised and concerns organizations, community government, tribal government, local from representatives and officials relevant interests. relevant and other etc.), recreation, industry, forest (e.g., environmental, groups stakeholder Subject matter expert (SME): Subject matter Regular participation in meetings, discussions, field tours, and other activities of the collaborative the collaborative and other activities of tours, discussions, field in meetings, participation Regular Participant: listening, sharing careful includes Participation effort. the success of a collaborative to is important group agency is a Ensuring the goals. meet its to effort group’s to the contributing generally and information, Service Forest However, relationships. to building trusting is important participant informed consistent, formal decision-making process. in the should not participate employees

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of these roles: specific roles an agency employee might play in a collaborative process. Often one person will play more than one play person will Often one process. collaborative in a play might employee roles an agency specific staff changes and inconsistent staff participation do not support the collaborative process. Below are some of the Below process. collaborative do not support the participation staff inconsistent and changes staff employee’s specific roles in the collaborative process. Collaboration is built on individual relationships, so rapid relationships, built on individual is process. Collaboration collaborative roles in the specific employee’s with Forest Service staff responsible for planning, implementation, contracting, and monitoring, regardless of those of regardless monitoring, and contracting, for planning, implementation, responsible Service staff with Forest the agency are everyone’s responsibility. Further, it is important to non-agency participants that they can work can they that participants non-agency to it is important Further, responsibility. everyone’s are the agency supporting the collaborative process, building and maintaining relationships with participants, and representing representing and with participants, relationships and maintaining process, building collaborative the supporting Depending on an employee’s role within the agency, their role in a collaborative group will vary. However, However, vary. will group collaborative in a their role the agency, within role on an employee’s Depending

Collaborative Processes Collaborative Typical Forest Service Roles in Roles Service Forest Typical PAGE 46 PAGE 47 TIPS and TOOLS Reflect back what you’ve heard and ask if it’s what the speaker meant. speaker the what and ask if it’s heard you’ve back what Reflect to?” agreed asking, we by this what “Is agreements group Test been already have things that rehashing avoid them to and use agreements working revisit Periodically discussed and decided. Express your commitment to uphold the integrity of the process and being held accountable for doing so. for and being held accountable of the process the integrity uphold to commitment your Express decision making,to particularly around process, boundaries of the clean, legal in maintaining Be diligent custodian. FACA gentle the Be occurs. FACA of no violation ensure everyone. for is working the process sure make to frequently Check in with the group

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While the Forest Service is never the official convener or leader of a collaborative group, collaborative or leader of a convener the official Service is never leader: While the Forest Collaboration creative, new ideas and seek explore to others by encouraging role a leadership play often Service staff Forest experiment to a willingness demonstrating by collaboration can encourage You solutions. mutually acceptable the to resources time and dedicating by the process to commitment and demonstrate approaches, with new effort. collaborative All participants, not just the designated facilitator, can use facilitation skills to help keep the group moving group keep the to help skills facilitation can use facilitator, designated the not just All participants, example: For forward. While for some it may seem unusual for a Forest Service employee to facilitate a collaborative group, group, a collaborative facilitate to Service employee a Forest unusual for seem some it may While for Facilitator: is an acceptable group, it of the – the support importantly and – most attitude, skills, approach, with the right facilitators: for Some tips role. Often the Forest Service brings projects to a collaborative group for discussion and group collaborative a to Service brings projects Forest the Often proposer: Project do However, projects. or new reviving in interested are they that shelf-stock these are whether consideration, same the will remain the project or that project proposed on every take to will want group not assume the to open remain to participants agency for It is equally important process. collaborative the goes through it after by the group. ideas proposed project collaborative Encourage diverse participation in the collaborative process and find ways to keep non-participating keep non-participating to ways process and find collaborative in the participation diverse Encourage work. group’s collaborative about the informed public general the and communities, local stakeholders,

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Is everyone willing to commit the time required to work through the issues? through work to required the time commit willing to  Is everyone be made? a decision must issues before work through to time enough  Is there if needed? facilitator a neutral hire to available funding  Is there the issues? address to adequately needed bring in people or information to available resources there  Are Are the people with decision-making authority supportive of using a collaborative process? collaborative of using a with decision-making authority supportive the people  Are group collaborative from emerge ideas that using seriously consider to agree  Do decision-makers discussions? Is there someone willing to advocate for trying approach? a new for advocate someone willing to  Is there effort? to lead the willing trusts everyone who entity a non-federal  Is there and think creatively? together work to others inspire someone who can  Is there Are the people who stand the most to lose and those who stand the most to gain willing to participate? participate? to willing gain to the most lose and those who stand to most the who stand the people  Are their objectives? to meeting approaches different explore willing to stakeholders  Are Do stakeholders share some common values around the issues? around values some common share  Do stakeholders agency missions or organizational changing not involve do that for agreement opportunities there  Are mandates? Are there a number of different, possibly competing, objectives? possibly a number of different, there  Are involved? issues controversial there  Are actions? to desired opposition or likely lack of support for  Is there unclear? proceed to way  Is the best

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Willing participants Room for agreement for Room Complex situation Complex solution. This checklist can help you decide when to use collaboration. to use when can help you decide solution. This checklist approaches when the best way to proceed is not clear and people are willing to work together to find a better find a better to work together to not clear and people are willing is proceed to way the best approaches when or appropriate. On the other hand, collaboration is very appropriate for reviewing past actions and designing new actions and designing past reviewing for is very appropriate On the other hand, collaboration or appropriate. situation is fairly straightforward or a course of action has already been decided collaboration is usually not needed collaboration is of action has already been decided course or a straightforward fairly situation is agreement and disagreement, and working together to identify new and better ways of moving forward. When a moving ways of and better new identify to together and working and disagreement, agreement involves sharing information and ideas to expand everyone’s knowledge of the situation, identifying areas of the situation, identifying of knowledge everyone’s expand to and ideas sharing information involves Collaboration is a process in which people with diverse views work together to achieve a common purpose. It common purpose. a to achieve together work views with diverse in which people is a process Collaboration When to Use a Collaborative Process Collaborative a Use to When PAGE 50 PAGE 51 TIPS and TOOLS EXAMPLES news sheets, Fact Register Federal releases, email web sites, notices, webinars, announcements, etc. Open houses, public listening meetings, online sessions, field trips, etc. webpage, comment with individuals Meetings representing or groups specific interests, etc. workshops, Advisory committees, collaborative forces, task CFLR and planning teams, etc. CFLRP groups, EXAMPLE agreements Partnership settlements Negotiated A Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center’s Conflict Prevention and Resolution Public Involvement A WHY DO IT WHY DO stakeholders Keep maintain informed; transparency need issues that Identify the test be addressed; to to reactions get waters: action early a proposed in the planning process; or misinformation address misperceptions Discuss issues and ideas; ensure concerns stakeholders’ and recommendations and understood are bring more considered; into information technical the discussion and the expertise Tap of many; creativity common of areas identify mutually Identify ground; solutions; acceptable support for build broad in forward decisions; move situations controversial WHY USE IT objective a shared Achieve can neither entity that alone or both can achieve together do better all that agreement Reach can accept parties

WHEN TO DO IT WHEN TO planned, actions are New information new non- is available, decisions controversial been made have and concerns Stakeholder not known; are interests have may stakeholders misinformation, questions, about or misperceptions planned actions Planned actions are be or may complex more to way best controversial; is not immediately proceed evident issues; conflict Complex lack of or controversy; or likely support for to planned opposition actions USE IT WHEN TO Cross-jurisdictional* project *more than one agency, involved etc. landowner, conflict Intractable

provide information provide seek input seek advice seek agreement resources leverage disputes resolve INFORM INFORM CONSULT INVOLVE COLLABORATE CONCEPTS RELATED PARTNER MEDIATE PROCESS Consulting, and Maia Enzer, US Forest Service. Consulting, and Maia Enzer, Spectrum, and Sherry Arnstein’s Ladder of Public Participation. It was modified for the Forest Service context by Ann Moote, Mamut modified for the Forest Service context by Ladder of Public Participation. It was Arnstein’s Spectrum, and Sherry

This chart is based on the IAP2 Public Participation Spectrum, the U.S. EP Collaboration on the Public Involvement Continuum Involvement Public the on Collaboration PAGE 52 PAGE 53 TIPS and TOOLS

Develop a deeper understanding of different interests and positions interests of different understanding a deeper Develop information available and access the best sources of information a wider range into Tap a goal help achieve to available are skills, and resources knowledge, Learn what goals and achieve problems to address new approaches creative Identify of issues on a deeper understanding and draw data available Use the best resistance to encounter likely priority and least highest actions are what Know needs social, and economic and balance ecological, address that Design projects not otherwise be possible would that projects larger-landscape Achieve projects public land management more implement to resources Leverage to solve together work and resources and information of people who share Build a network projects and implement problems decisions and actions agency Build public support for individuals on a few reliance – reduce Build redundancy are made decisions before conflicts resolve and misunderstandings and address Identify and accountable transparent, as open, is viewed that in an agency trust Increase challenges legal and withstand challenges legal fewer Receive

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decisions 2. Better outcomes 3. Better support 4. More 5. Less conflict

1. More information information 1. More effective and more widely supported. Here are five commonly reported benefits of collaboration. benefits reported commonly five are Here supported. widely and more effective requires time and commitment up front, collaboration can make planning, decision-making, and management more planning, more decision-making, and management can make collaboration up front, commitment time and requires agreement and disagreement, and working together to identify new and better ways of moving forward. Although it Although forward. moving of ways better and new identify to together and working disagreement, and agreement involves sharing information and ideas to expand everyone’s knowledge of the situation, identifying areas of identifying of the situation, knowledge everyone’s expand to ideas and sharing information involves Collaboration is a process in which people with diverse views work together to achieve a common purpose. It common purpose. a achieve to together work views people with diverse in which is a process Collaboration Five Benefits of Collaboration of Benefits Five (P.L. (P.L. (36 CFR 219). “to guide the collaborative guide the collaborative “to through a collaborative process of process through a collaborative (FSH 2409.19 Ch.61.12). (FSH .” .” is transparent or nonexclusive” is transparent : when implementing laws relating to the relating laws when implementing “to encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest forest of priority restoration ecosystem science-based the collaborative, encourage “to (OMB M10-06, Dec. 8, 2009). “explain in detail how your agency will how in detail “explain to agencies OMB guidance directs Subsequent

by funding restoration treatments on priority landscapes. To be eligible for CFLRP funding,for CFLRP a To be eligible landscapes. on priority treatments restoration funding by landscapes…” that… process through a collaborative and implemented “be developed must proposal restoration landscape and … interests diverse persons representing includes multiple interested of cornerstone form the collaboration and participation, “three principles of transparency, that Establishes an open government.” Provides a framework and guidelines for Federal, state, local, and tribal governments, non-governmental non-governmental and tribal governments, local, state, Federal, and guidelines for a framework Provides and maintain restore to all landscapes and across collaboratively work to and public stakeholders partners, mandated was Strategy The to wildfires. respond effectively and wildfire, from communities protect landscapes, the (FLAME) Act of 2009 and is led by and Enhancement Management, Land Assistance, the Federal by and the Interior. of Agriculture Secretaries and interest, is sufficient there planning, where monitoring multiparty during project collaboration Calls for reduce wildfire “to of HFRA is first purpose plans. The Protection Community Wildfire collaboratively-developed land Federal at-risk supplies, and other water municipal communities, risk to using collaborative using collaborative the planning process…, the public… early and throughout “engage to the Agency Directs is purpose of the planning rule The stated and appropriate.” feasible where processes plans…” of land management and revision amendment, development, and science-based is The purpose of CFLRP 111-11). to policies and administrative management to internal [including] proposed changes collaboration… improve collaboration” improve emphasize to and the EPA and Defense Commerce, Agriculture, of the Interior, the Departments Directs and nonprofit for-profit private governments, and tribal local, State, Federal, activity among “collaborative entities and individuals” other nongovernmental institutions, resources. and natural environment reduction projects fuel hazardous planning, prioritizing, and implementing local meet … that goals land management achieve “to contracts use stewardship and BLM to the FS Authorizes an “make to, the Agency Service Handbook directs S.323). The Forest needs” (P.L.108-7 community and rural of collaboration throughout the life in stakeholders key and engage interests of local a variety to involve effort and monitoring” the project, from project design through implementation

2009 Presidential Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government Transparency on Memorandum 2009 Presidential 2009 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Strategy Management Wildland Fire Cohesive 2009 National Act (HFRA) Restoration Forests 2003 Healthy 2009 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) Program Restoration Landscape Forest 2009 Collaborative of Cooperative Conservation 13352 -- Facilitation Order 2004 Executive Projects Contracting (End Result) 2003 Stewardship 2012 National Forest Planning Rule Forest 2012 National Business Operations, and National Forest System. Forest National and Operations, Business State and Private Forestry, Research and Development, and Development, Research Forestry, and Private -- State Service Areas Deputy Forest to ALL speak that authorities Many legislative and policy directives either require or encourage a collaborative approach. There are collaboration collaboration are There approach. collaborative a or encourage require either and policy directives legislative Many A List of Collaboration Related Authorities Related Collaboration of List A PAGE 54 PAGE 55 TIPS and TOOLS

diverse and balanced group of stakeholders … as well as appropriate Federal, Tribal, State, County, County, State, Tribal, Federal, … as well as appropriate group of stakeholders diverse and balanced

Provides cost-share grants for collaboratively developed restoration projects in New Mexico. Projects must Projects must Mexico. New projects in restoration developed collaboratively for grants cost-share Provides “include a and Municipal government representatives in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the project” (P.L. (P.L. of the project” and monitoring implementation, in the design, representatives and Municipal government 106-393, Title VI). “provide frequent opportunities for citizens, organizations, tribes, organizations, for citizens, opportunities frequent “provide to Advisory (RACs) Councils Resource Requires at beginning and meaningfully, openly to participate parties interested agencies and other land management development” of project (P.L.106-393). the early stage

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you in producing stories and you in producing stories These links are provided to assist assist to are provided These links materials that explain the impact that explain materials across the Pacific Northwest and in Northwest across the Pacific that collaborative groups are having groups that collaborative Photo Web Links: Links: Web Photo Links to Collaborative Group Group Collaborative to Links PAGE 58 PAGE 59 Photo Web Link Web Photo

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