Redefining the Permit Process

Kelly Sczomak, NPS Program Specialist Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Parks Vermont
Building Consensus in the Chesapeake Bay

Laura Cattell Noll, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Local Government Initiative Director Chesapeake Bay Program Pennsylvania
Recreation Opportunity Spectrum and Scenery Management Systems for Land Management Plans

Sheila Larsen, USDA Forest Service Recreation Planner, Rocky Mountain Regional Office Mountain Planning Service Group Idaho and Graydon Bascom, USDA Forest Service Landscape Architect, Mountain Planning Service Group Utah
Partnership Impact Model Executive Summary

The Partnership Impact Model™ includes the 11 Partnership Impacts, Scaling Up Partnership Impact, the Partnership Impact Roadmap, and the 7 Steps of Partnership Impact Evaluation. The front panels describe the impacts and processes that form the model. The back panels outline tools that collaboratives can use to define and evaluate their impact. The 11 Partnership […]
Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory

How is your partnership doing? The Wilder Collaboration Factors Inventory is a free assessment tool that helps you assess how your collaboration is doing on 22 research-tested success factors. The inventory takes about 15 minutes to complete. Distribute the inventory to a small group of leaders in your collaborative, during a general meeting, or via mail to all members; tally […]
Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide (2019)

By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. The Partnership Impact Model™ includes the 11 Partnership Impacts, Scaling Up Partnership Impact, the Partnership Impact Roadmap, and the 7 Steps of Partnership Impact Evaluation. The 11 Partnership Impacts is a framework that explicitly highlights the collection of impacts that landscape-scale stewardship partnerships should consider when it comes […]
Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years (2018)

By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. One Tam’s vision that we can do more for Mt. Tam together, working across boundaries, than we can alone was affirmed in the findings of a four-year (2014-17) independent study—Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years—on the impact and value of partnerships. One […]
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 […]
Developing a Framework of Support around Partnerships and Relationships for Land Management Planning

Dessa Dale, USDA FS Public Engagement Specialist Mountain Planning Services Group, Regions 1 – 4 Montana
Kemmerer Historic Preservation Commission: Creating a Legacy for the Future

Linda Naoi Goetz, BLM Archaeologist Interior Region 7, Upper Colorado Basin Wyoming