This session focused on reporting ecological outcomes on collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp sites, moving beyond an introduction to the cflrp fiveyear reporting requirements, and focusing on the how, when and why to report progress on the ecological indicator. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program. This session focused on cflrp took advantage of the unique opportunity to bring forest service staff, partners, and community members involved in cflrp projects across the country together. The southwest jemez mountains landscape restoration project is a longterm collaborative effort to improve ecosystem resilience and function in the southwest jemez mountains of the santa fe national forest.
A collaborative forest landscape restoration program. Our newest working paper looks at 2 of these initiatives. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp advisory committee will meet via conference call. To date, this national program has restored a forested area larger than yellowstone and yosemite national parks, combined.
Estimating fire program management cost savings from fuel treatments in the us forest services collaborative forest landscape restoration program, using the risk and cost analysis tools package june 1, 2015 western forest economists meeting, vancouver, bc keith stockmann, phd, economist nicole vaillant, phd, fire ecologist. It also chronicles pioneering ventures in largescale, collaborative forest restoration and the emerging process that stakeholders, agencies, environmental groups, native american tribes, and others have begun under the auspices of the collaborative forest landscape restoration program and other collaborative efforts. Collaborative forest landscape restoration pinchot institute for. Cflrp abbreviation stands for collaborative forest landscape restoration program. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp is a nationwide program to realize collaboration in sciencebased forest restoration at the landscape scale. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program overview. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program. Decision support tools for forest landscape restoration. The act established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp, which solicits collaboratively developed proposals for landscape scale ecological restoration projects that are. The purpose of the cflrp legislation is to implement forest restoration work on national forest lands through a competitive grant program.
A report on the collaborative forest landscape restoration program pe executive summary covering onethird of the united states, forests store and filter half the nations water supply. Merkley, wyden announce expanded collaborative forest. Visions of restoration in fireadapted forest landscapes. Use the tabs or the previous and next buttons to change the displayed slide. Forest service highlights expansion of restoration of. Congress established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp to encourage the collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem restoration. These institutes work together to develop a program of applied research and service to help create healthy.
The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp provided an opportunity to examine the challenges and success of collaborative monitoring to understand the effects of forest restoration at a landscape scale. Fulfilling the purpose of the act omnibus public land management act of 2009, title iv the purpose of title iv is to encourage collaborative, sciencebased restoration. Usda forest service fsgeodata clearinghouse download. Up to 50% of the cost of carrying out and monitoring ecological restoration treatments.
Cflrp has proven to be an effective tool for improving forest conditions, growing rural economies, and leveraging partner investments to. Our carousel is a rotating set of images, rotation stops on keyboard focus on carousel tab. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program advisory committee met october 1820, 2011, to evaluate 2011 proposals submitted in response to the fiscal year 2011 collaborative forest landscape restoration program request for proposals and to make recommendations for project selection to the secretary of agriculture. A model for this hybrid program may already exist in the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp. All stakeholders in the collaborative share a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by various interests timber. We define resilience as an ecosystems or plant communitys ability to maintain or recover. Forest service staff, and scientists gathered in hood river, oregon to discuss the successes and challenges of the clfr program in oregon and washington. Unlike anything else in us public land management, the cflrp is a nationwide program. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program is the forest services signature program that accomplishes these goals.
Title vrivers and trails subtitle aadditions to the national wild and scenic rivers system sec. This report is specifically focused on the efforts of the usfs collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp. Collaborative forest landscape restoration project. Mar 27, 2018 to date, this national program has restored a forested area larger than yellowstone and yosemite national parks, combined. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp.
The handbook, which is published by the eri, features a foreword by dr. The purpose of the collaborative forest landscape restoration program is to encourage the collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes. The cflrp, established by title iv of the omnibus public land management act of 2009, is a particularly interesting case and. Congress created cflrp in 2009 to support largescale forest restoration and benefit local communities through collaborative approaches. Monitoring and learning from treatments to evaluate.
Forest service hosts a series of cflr peer learning sessions in partnership with the national forest foundation. Collaborative landscape restoration on forests without. Adaptively moving forward in this workshop hosted by sustainable northwest, members of forest collaborative groups, u. Both programs competitively award multiyear funding for collaborative, landscape scale restoration work on highpriority landscapes. Despite our unprecedented warm weather this winter, most of western north carolinas black bears are sleeping deep right now, and some females have just recently given birth.
Resilience in collaborative forest landscape restoration. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp is the forest. This was the third annual workshop of cflrp forests in region 6. Pdf the collaborative forest landscape restoration program. Collaborative forest landscape restoration workshop forest.
He has vowed that lawmakers will work to get as much funding restored as possible. Since 2010, 23 cflrp projects in 14 states have sold more than 2. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp, established in 2009, is one policy initiative to encourage and support innovative restoration projects that can reduce the risk of largescale wildfire and benefit rural communities. Forest landscape restoration flr is an active, longterm process to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in landscapes that have lost forest cover, forest qualities and forest based contributions to people.
Front range collaborative forest landscape restoration. The tapash restoration project was selected for collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr program funding in august of 2010. The southwest ecological restoration institutes sweri includes three universitybased restoration institutes. Bingaman, from the committee on energy and natural resources, submitted the following r e p o r t to accompany s. Wallace covington, chapters about collaboration, ecological economics, planning and nepa. Nov 15, 2016 to understand participant perspectives and experiences, we analyzed interviews with 86 respondents from six collaboratives in the western u. Cflrp collaborative forest landscape restoration program. The grandfather restoration project is a collaborative effort that will increase restoration and management to over 40,000 acres on. Congress established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp with title iv of the omnibus public land management act of 2009 pdf, 40 kb.
Tapash collaborative forest landscape restoration project. Assessing metrics of landscape restoration success in. We received 22 final cflrp proposals from across the country to select projects for implementation under the collaborative forest landscape restoration fund, the secretary will consider the recommendations of an advisory panel. Crossboundary landscape restoration workshop sweri home. The tapash cflr landscape in central washington includes 1. The 2020 crossboundary landscape restoration workshop will bring together land and fire managers, researchers and stakeholders to develop strategies that apply evidencebased collaborative management of forest landscapes in the intermountain west. This book assesses the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp and identifies lessons learned for governance and policy through this new and innovative approach to collaborative forest management. The collaborative forest restoration landscape program was designated to accelerate ongoing restoration treatments that provide longlasting ecological, social and economic benefits to ponderosa pine forests surrounding colorados front range. Cflrp is unique in that cflr projects take an alllands approach to forest restoration, and in order.
Collaborative forest landscape restoration program a in general. The deschutes national forest and multiple stakeholders are well positioned to implement landscape scale forest restoration efforts quickly and effectively via a process that promises to be a model for working forest collaborative groups across the west. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program u. Across the country, tens of millions of acres are in need of restoration in order to support and sustain healthy. Collaborative landscape restoration on forests without cflrp. As a senior member of the energy and natural resources committee, i know firsthand from town halls and meetings throughout rural oregon the necessity of. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp. Download this fact sheet to learn more about how the collaborative forest landscape restoration program works and results of the program since 2010. Resilient landsupport ecological, economic, and social sustainability. Download this fact sheet to learn more about how the collaborative forest landscape restoration program works and results of the program. The first initiative that is highlighted is the collaborative forest landscape restoration program, with a spotlight on the grandfather restoration project. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program carousel. The collaborative works closely with cibola national forest on the zuni mountains collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr project. Southwest jemez mountains landscape restoration project.
Collaborative forest landscape restoration program overview 2019 request for proposals. Grandfather collaborative forest landscape restoration home. Draft agenda for download full event website convened by the southwest ecological restoration institutes sweri, we invite partners to share lessons learned from experience engaging in local, regional, and national collaborative forest restoration processes on federal and nonfederal forest landscapes. Sessions that are available to the public are organized below by year. The cflr program aims to promote job stability, reliable wood supply and forest health while reducing the costs and risks of wildfire.
Cflr peer learning sessions national forest foundation. Martin heinrich, dnew mexico, was among those to win reauthorization for the collaborative forest landscape restoration program in 2018. Lessons from the collaborative forest landscape restoration program article pdf available in environmental management 592 november. Stable, longterm funding from programs like cflrp has also provided the certainty we need to justify increased private investments in our operation. Our carousel is a rotating set of images, rotation stops on keyboard focus on carousel tab controls or hovering the mouse pointer over images. Congress created the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp in 2009 with the passage of the forest landscape restoration act omnibus public lands management act of 2009 title iv. The act established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp, which solicits collaboratively developed proposals for landscape scale ecological restoration projects that are socially and economically viable. The purpose of this title is to encourage the collaborative, sciencebased eco system restoration of priority forest landscapes through a process that encourages ecolog ical, economic, and social sustainability. Collaborative forest landscape restoration handbook explores the various barriers to landscape scale, collaborative forest restoration and the innovative ways to bridge those barriers. Cflrp has proven to be an effective tool for improving forest conditions, growing rural economies, and leveraging partner investments to improve the quality and scale of our work. A diagnostic for collaborative monitoring in forest. Sustainability index for landscape restoration world. Collaborative forest landscape restoration workshop.
Collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr overview. Analysis of existing research on the cflr program established in 2009, the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp is now the vanguard of the federal governments efforts to accelerate the pace and scale of restoration activities on federal public lands. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp is the forest services signature. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program plays a critical role for oregons forests so they can generate jobs and remain healthy for decades to come, wyden said. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program has sustained jobs at our mill, brought diverse stakeholders together, and resulted in significant restoration on the malheur national forest. In 2009, sustainable northwest educated members of congress on legislation that would create the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp, congress passed the legislation providing the opportunity for the forest service to implement the national program for 10 years. The nff is a 501c3 charitable, nonprofit organization. The report highlights the extensive work the forest service has undertaken over the last few years to confront serious challenges facing forests and grasslands.
Flr provides a framework for implementing restoration interventions that collectively address. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program was authorized in title iv of the omnibus public land management act of 2009 omnibus act a federal advisory committee was established to evaluate and recommend proposals for funding. Congress established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program to encourage collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes. The workshop will bring together land managers, researchers, and their. The secretary, in consultation with the secretary of the interior, shall establish a collaborative forest landscape restoration program to select and fund ecological restoration treatments for priority forest landscapes in accordance with. Ecological need and strategy for landscape scale restoration. The first initiative that is highlighted is the collaborative forest landscape restoration program, with a spotlight on the grandfather restoration. A diagnostic for collaborative monitoring in forest landscape restoration get the cifor publications update cifor publishes over 400 publications every year on forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy, agroforestry and much more in multiple languages. Payette forest coalition builds diverse community support for forest restoration on the payette national forest. The collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr program, created in 2009, encourages the collaboration of unlikely partners to undertake sciencebased restoration on priority forest landscapes. In 2017, we studied the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp, which was established by congress in 2009 to provide 810 years of funding for collaborative implementation of restoration projects on priority landscapes larger than 50,000 acres. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program, using the. Choose outdoors signs support letter for collaborative.
Purpose of the program congress established the collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr program with title iv of the omnibus public land management act of 2009 the purpose of the collaborative forest landscape restoration program is to encourage the collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes. The dlrp was developed under the collaborative forest landscape restoration program established by title vi of the omnibus land management act of 20092 public law 11111. What is the collaborative forest landscape restoration program. Grandfather collaborative forest landscape restoration.
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