Evaluating Partnerships in Conservation
Introduction, The Interplay, and Logic Models highlight evaluation concepts including Wicked Problems and the Theory of Change as well as tools related to planning, implementing and assessing the conservation activities of partnerships. Assessment reveals concepts that support an evaluator’s toolkit including Random, Quasi and Natural Experiments. Learn more about qualitative and quantitative choices in data […]
Capacity Building for Collaboration Case Study (2018)
A Case Study on Building and Sustaining Landscape-Scale Stewardship Networks in the 21st Century, by Leigh Goldberg Consulting With the growing complexity and scale of environmental, social, and economic challenges facing the long-term stewardship of working and conserved public and private lands in the United States, place-based collaborative networks are very likely the future vehicle […]
The Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) Framework, USGS
The Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework is a tool that helps resource managers make informed strategies for responding to socio-ecological changes. Ecosystems are transforming, with substantial shifts in ecological processes and important ecosystem services occurring at unprecedented rates. As systems approach socio-economic and ecological thresholds, our current management toolbox has proved to be incomplete for conservation and […]
Coaching People Through the Change Curve
The Change Curve is a popular and powerful model used to understand the stages of personal transition and organisational change. It helps you predict how people will react to change, so that you can help them make their own personal transitions, and make sure that they have the help and support they need. Personality underpins […]
USDA Forest Service Handover Memo
The Forest Service’s handover memo process enables an outgoing agency leader to share information with their replacement. The challenge of rotating Forest Service line officers is a well-known barrier to community and forest‐level collaboration. It takes time to develop good relationships, and when a key agency contact is transferred, a collaborative effort can stall out […]
Lake Superior Collaborative: Enhancing a Partnership in the Wisconsin Lake Superior Basin
Lacey Hill Kastern, USFWS Western Lake Superior Coastal Program Biologist Region 3 Ecological Services Wisconsin
Making the Connections: Aligning Internally to Partner Externally
Andrea Carson, USACE Small Programs Planner Regional Environmental Justice Coordinator CPCX Division Liaison and Regional Silver Jackets Coordinator Great Lakes & Ohio Division Pennsylvania
Iowa River Sustainable Rivers Program
Daniel Meden, USACE Biologist St Paul District (Regional Planning and Environmental Division North) Iowa
The Missouri River: A River of Connections, A River of Change
MBN 2023Wayne Nelson-Stastny, USFWS Missouri River Recovery Project Leader Missouri River Coordination Office South Dakota
Long-Term Sustainable Management for High-Use Recreation Areas
Max Forgensi, USDA Forest Service Lands and Minerals Program Manager Pike-San Isabel National Forests & Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands Colorado
