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. Cflrp abbreviation stands for collaborative forest landscape restoration program. Collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr overview. Nov 15, 2016 to understand participant perspectives and experiences, we analyzed interviews with 86 respondents from six collaboratives in the western u. What is the collaborative forest landscape restoration program. 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 tapash restoration project was selected for collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr program funding in august of 2010. Use the tabs or the previous and next buttons to change the displayed slide. Cflrp collaborative forest landscape restoration program. Visions of restoration in fireadapted 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. 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. The collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr program, created in 2009, encourages the collaboration of unlikely partners to undertake sciencebased restoration on 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.
Payette forest coalition builds diverse community support for forest restoration on the payette national forest. The purpose of the cflrp legislation is to implement forest restoration work on national forest lands through a competitive grant program. Martin heinrich, dnew mexico, was among those to win reauthorization for the collaborative forest landscape restoration program in 2018. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program, using the.
The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp is the forest. The first initiative that is highlighted is the collaborative forest landscape restoration program, with a spotlight on the grandfather restoration project. 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 pinchot institute for. 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. 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. Social and economic monitoring for the lakeview stewardship collaborative forest landscape restoration project 1 executive summary t he fremontwinema national forest and the lakeview stewardship group were awarded funding under the collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr program in 2012 for the 662,289 acre lakeview stewardship. Lakeview collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr. Title vrivers and trails subtitle aadditions to the national wild and scenic rivers system sec. Our carousel is a rotating set of images, rotation stops on keyboard focus on carousel tab. 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. 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.
Collaborative landscape restoration on forests without. Collaborative forest landscape restoration handbook explores the various barriers to landscape scale, collaborative forest restoration and the innovative ways to bridge those barriers. Grandfather collaborative forest landscape restoration home. Since 2010, 23 cflrp projects in 14 states have sold more than 2. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program overview 2019 request for proposals. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program. 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. The nff is a 501c3 charitable, nonprofit organization. Across the country, tens of millions of acres are in need of restoration in order to support and sustain healthy. 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. The southwest ecological restoration institutes sweri includes three universitybased restoration institutes.
A diagnostic for collaborative monitoring in forest. These institutes work together to develop a program of applied research and service to help create healthy. Cflr peer learning sessions national forest foundation. Tapash collaborative forest landscape restoration project.
The purpose of the collaborative forest landscape restoration program is to encourage the collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes. Crossboundary landscape restoration workshop sweri home. 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. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program overview. 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. Our newest working paper looks at 2 of these initiatives.
Stable, longterm funding from programs like cflrp has also provided the certainty we need to justify increased private investments in our operation. 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. The workshop will bring together land managers, researchers, and their. Congress established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp to encourage the collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem restoration.
Resilience in collaborative forest landscape restoration. Lessons from the collaborative forest landscape restoration program article pdf available in environmental management 592 november. 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. Front range collaborative forest landscape restoration. 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. 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. Over the last decade, the forest service has been implementing a series of new initiatives designed to accelerate crossboundary, collaborative, and integrated restoration.
Forest service hosts a series of cflr peer learning sessions in partnership with the national forest foundation. Both programs competitively award multiyear funding for collaborative, landscape scale restoration work on highpriority landscapes. 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. This report is specifically focused on the efforts of the usfs collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp. Assessing metrics of landscape restoration success in.
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. Mar 27, 2018 to date, this national program has restored a forested area larger than yellowstone and yosemite national parks, combined. Flr provides a framework for implementing restoration interventions that collectively address. Congress established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program to encourage collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes. Download this fact sheet to learn more about how the collaborative forest landscape restoration program works and results of the program since 2010. 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 panel met in july 2010 in an open meeting and recommended 10 projects for funding. The first initiative that is highlighted is the collaborative forest landscape restoration program, with a spotlight on the grandfather restoration. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program carousel. Choose outdoors signs support letter for collaborative. 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. What is the abbreviation for collaborative forest landscape restoration program.
Unlike anything else in us public land management, the cflrp is a nationwide program. Up to 50% of the cost of carrying out and monitoring ecological restoration treatments. Forest service staff, and scientists gathered in hood river, oregon to discuss the successes and challenges of the clfr program in oregon and washington. Sessions that are available to the public are organized below by year. 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. Congress established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp to encourage the collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes. Landscape restoration cflr project monitoring plan. 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 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. A collaborative forest landscape restoration program. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp advisory committee will meet via conference call. Cflrp has proven to be an effective tool for improving forest conditions, growing rural economies, and leveraging partner investments to. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program a in general. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp is a nationwide program to realize collaboration in sciencebased forest restoration at the landscape scale.
Usda forest service fsgeodata clearinghouse download. He has vowed that lawmakers will work to get as much funding restored as possible. Resilient landsupport ecological, economic, and social sustainability. 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.
Collaborative forest landscape restoration project. The grandfather restoration project is a collaborative effort that will increase restoration and management to over 40,000 acres on. Pdf the collaborative forest landscape restoration program. 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 established the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp with title iv of the omnibus public land management act of 2009 pdf, 40 kb. Grandfather collaborative forest landscape restoration. 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. Ecological need and strategy for landscape scale restoration. 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.
The collaborative works closely with cibola national forest on the zuni mountains collaborative forest landscape restoration cflr project. To date, this national program has restored a forested area larger than yellowstone and yosemite national parks, combined. Congress created cflrp in 2009 to support largescale forest restoration and benefit local communities through collaborative approaches. The tapash cflr landscape in central washington includes 1. 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. Merkley, wyden announce expanded collaborative forest. The report highlights the extensive work the forest service has undertaken over the last few years to confront serious challenges facing forests and grasslands.
Collaborative landscape restoration on forests without cflrp. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp is the forest services signature. A model for this hybrid program may already exist in the collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp. 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. 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.
Collaborative forest landscape restoration workshop. We define resilience as an ecosystems or plant communitys ability to maintain or recover. Cflrp is unique in that cflr projects take an alllands approach to forest restoration, and in order. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp. 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. Decision support tools for forest landscape restoration. Forest service highlights expansion of restoration of. The dlrp, which includes 154,000 acres on the hsrd and adjacent private lands, was one of the projects selected in 2010 to implement the collaborative, sciencebased ecosystem. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program is the forest services signature program that accomplishes these goals.
All stakeholders in the collaborative share a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by various interests timber. The handbook, which is published by the eri, features a foreword by dr. Collaborative forest landscape restoration program u. Monitoring and learning from treatments to evaluate. 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. Download this fact sheet to learn more about how the collaborative forest landscape restoration program works and results of the program. Southwest jemez mountains landscape restoration project. The collaborative forest landscape restoration program cflrp. Adaptively moving forward in this workshop hosted by sustainable northwest, members of forest collaborative groups, u. 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. Sustainability index for landscape restoration world. This was the third annual workshop of cflrp forests in region 6. The cflr program aims to promote job stability, reliable wood supply and forest health while reducing the costs and risks of wildfire.
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