Learning Labs
The Forest Service National Partnership Office has adopted Learning Labs as a way to expose and engage individuals and organizations to the best practices of working in a partnership culture. The National Riparian Service Team (NRST) is serving as the pilot project.
NRST successfully applies policies regarding community involvement and collaboration through an operating framework that emphasizes joint fact finding, communication and learning while doing. The NRST leads the implementation of an interagency effort called Creeks & Communities: A Continuing Strategy for Accelerating Cooperative Riparian Restoration and Management.
For more information, read the NRST Learning Lab flier, and see the following links.
Creeks and Communities
Creeks and Communities: A Continuing Strategy for Accelerating Cooperative Riparian Restoration and Management [PDF, 24 pages]. Details Creeks and Communities, an interagency strategy initiated in 1996 for accelerating cooperative riparian restoration and management.
Creeks and Communities: Building Capacity for Collaborative Stewardship [PDF, 2 pages]. Briefing paper on the Creeks and Communities program.
Case Studies
For examples of National Riparian Service Team projects, see:
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