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Success Stories
Arts
Collaboration
Communities
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Ford Foundation's Community-based Forestry Demonstration Program
In 2000, the Ford Foundation established a 5-year Community Based Forestry (CBF) Demonstration Program designed to increase the ability of CBF groups to effect positive social, economic, and ecological change through forest stewardship. Project researchers recently released the results of their study of the Demonstration Program.
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Community-Based Monitoring of Burn Canyon Salvage Logging
At a controversial salvage logging site in Western Colorado, community-based monitoring is diffusing conflict and building a common foundation of knowledge and trust among different interests in the community. Learn more - read the Case Study in Brief [PDF, 2 pages, 323 KB].
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Investing in Rural Communities and Forest Health in the West: Examples of the USDA Forest Service Economic Action Programs (EAP)
USDA Forest Service
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The
West Eugene Wetlands
City of Eugene, Oregon and Bureau of Land Management
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National
Forest Foundation - The New Community Assistance Program
(CAP)
Funds are available through this grant program to support newly-forming non-profit organizations in need of start-up capacity.
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With
Time, Patience and Seed Money, Wakulla County Redevelopment
Projects Continue to Grow
Wakulla County, Florida and USDA Forest Service
Conservation Education
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Children and nature - a connection for the health and well being of our children
The disconnect between today’s youth and the outdoors negatively impacts children’s health, and educational achievements. Conservation Education programs are a strategy way to connect kids to nature through meaningful educational experiences and helps to heal the broken bonds between children and nature. The Forest Service has a long and proud tradition of working with children.
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Winging
Northward—A Shorebird's Journey
USDA Forest Service International Programs, Pacific
Northwest Research Station, the Chugach National Forest,
Ducks Unlimited, Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve
Network, US Fish & Wildlife
Service, Prince William Network
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Together,
we can do it!
The Mid-Atlantic Conservation Education
Cooperative is a model multi-state conservation
education partnership.
Cultural History
- On Your Knees Cave
Efforts to study “On Your Knees Cave,” an intriguing
archaeological and paleontological site in the Tongass
National Forest of southeast Alaska, have grown into an
extraordinary partnership between researchers, local and
regional Alaska Native organizations, and the Forest Service.
Forest Health
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Creating Zones of Agreement in Montana
In September 2007, conservationists, motorized users, outfitters, loggers, mill operators, state government and the Forest Service collaboratively established a set of restoration principles to help guide efforts in the state of Montana. Overcoming decades of disparity and indifference, the group developed 13 principles to help steer and evaluate restoration projects, programs and policies.
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Managing
Sudden Oak Death in California
California Oak Mortality Task Force (COMTF) - created by
the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection,
and the California Forest Pest Council, the COMTF brought
together public agencies, non-profit organizations, and
private interests to address Sudden Oak Death in a comprehensive
and coordinated manner.
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The
Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership
The Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership is a ground-breaking effort to restore pre-1870 characteristics and functions of ponderosa pine on 493 acres of national forest and private land in southwest Colorado, while at the same time addressing the needs of local communities.
Fire
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Fire
Risk Reduction Involves Local Residents
Kaibab National Forest, Arizona State Land Department,
University of Arizona Coconino County Cooperative Extension,
Coconino County Public Works and Emergency Services divisions,
Northern Arizona University’s Ecological Restoration
Institute, the Arizona Department of Corrections, and
the Parks-Bellemont and Sherwood Forest Estates volunteer
fire departments
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Fire
Education Corps Assists Homeowners
Boise National Forest, Student Conservation Association,
the National Fire Protection Association, the Keep Idaho
Green Fire Prevention Committee, the U.S. Department of
the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, the Idaho State
Department of Lands, and local Resource Conservation and
Development Councils
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Rankin
Creek Rehabilitation, Idaho 2002
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and Yankee Fork Ranger District
of the Salmon-Challis National Forest
Recreation
Roads & Trails
Stewardship
Technology Transfer
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Patents—Want to Know More?
Through cooperative agreements, partnerships, and other mechanisms, the USDA Patent Program can help convert research into usable information and technology that benefits both researchers and the forestry industry. Patent Attorney Janet Stockhausen heads the USDA Forest Service Patent Program. Stockhausen and her staff help researchers obtain and license patents.
- An Award-Winning
Partnership!
The “Roundwood Engineered Structures Dream Team” was such a successful partnership
that it earned a National Fire Plan award. The partnership helped promote and expand the market
for small-diameter roundwood and provided an economic incentive for woody biomass removal from
overstocked forest stands throughout the West.
Watersheds
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Henry's
Fork Watershed Council
The Henry's Fork Watershed Council coordinates
an innovative effort to address land management issues,
resolve conflict, coordinate research, and help develop natural resource policy in the Henry's Fork Basin, which encompasses parts of Yellowstone National Park.
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Changing
Landscapes—the Karnowsky Creek Project
The Karnowsky Creek project exemplifies the critical role of partnerships in watershed project design and implementation. Forest Service, Siuslaw Soil and Water Conservation District, and the Siuslaw Watershed Council.
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Trees
Helicoptered Into Rivers Restore Watersheds
Huron-Pines Resource Conservation and Development Council,
Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and U.S. Forest
Service (Huron and Manistee National Forests), Conservation
Resource Alliance, Consumers Energy, the Michigan Department
of Environmental Quality, and various state and local law
enforcement agencies
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Watershed
Partners Work to Improve Habitat for Threatened & Endangered
Species
Denver Water, US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Colorado
Natural Heritage Program, and U.S. Forest Service
Wildlife, Fish, & Plants
Volunteers
Youth
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More Kids in the Woods
In partial response to issue around 'nature deficit disorder' in American children, the U.S. Forest Service recently launched More Kids in the Woods, a pilot program aimed at connecting kids with nature through experiential learning and recreation programs, held mainly on national forests. The Forest Service has awarded more than $500,000 in challenge cost share funds to 24 programs and these funds have been matched or exceeded by many generous partners, resulting in a total of $1.5 million flowing into the More Kids in the Woods effort.
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Partnerships Connect Urban Youth with nearby Forests
Stewardship programs for Seattle youth are thriving on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington State.
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Rocky
Mountain Youth Corps Partnership
The Rocky Mountain Youth Corps develops service projects for New Mexico youth aged 16-25. In 1997, the RMYC entered into a formal partnership with the Carson National Forest to contribute to restoration and maintenance projects on the forest during the summer months.
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PARTNERING WITH THE FOREST SERVICE
