Watch a recording of our January presentation on Forest Collaboratives: Building Partnerships between the Community & Forest Service.

Forest collaboratives work to build partnerships and increase trust between the Forest Service and diverse stakeholder groups. Across the Pacific Northwest, forest collaboratives have developed agreements around shared goals and increased the pace, scale, and quality of watershed and forest restoration across public and private lands. This has been accomplished through engaging a diverse set of stakeholders in planning, evaluating, and monitoring projects using a science-based and holistic approach. Watch this presentation by Andrew Spaeth, facilitator for the Hood River Forest Collaborative and Wasco County Forest Collaborative, to learn more about forest collaboratives and the accomplishments of our local groups.