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Bureau of Land Management, National Conservation Lands Division

The BLM’s twenty-four year old National Conservation Lands currently includes 905 units covering over 37 million acres designated by Congress and the President to conserve special features, from winding rivers to mountain vistas. The National Conservation Lands offer the American people exceptional opportunities for hunting, solitude, wildlife viewing, fishing, history exploration, scientific research and a wide range of […]

Bureau of Land Management, National Training Center

The BLM’s National Training Center provides instructor-led training, distant learning courses and other learning opportunities and services to agency employees, partners and contractors. The curriculum covers renewable and non-renewable resource management programs, planning and business management, engineering, safety, information technology and more. This professional development prepares employees and public collaborators to support the BLM’s mission. […]

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 […]

Four Network Principles for Collaboration Success

Despite high hopes, hard work, and significant investment, the social sector has experienced countless partnerships that have failed to live up to expectations. How are some collaborations able to achieve spectacular results while others fail spectacularly?  This article identifies a set of four counterintuitive principles that are critical to collaboration success and offers insights for […]

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 […]

Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector

By Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers. Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press, 2004. A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services […]

Field Guide to Developing Partnerships

With the recently documented loss of 2.9 billion birds over 50 years in North America, unprecedented and creative partnerships are needed more than ever to advance bird conservation goals. Many bird conservation outcomes align with broader societal goals, such as water quality and human health, creating opportunities for meaningful and productive partnerships that advance goals […]

Croatan Fireshed Partnership

John Langdon, USDA FS Partnership Coordinator Uwharrie & Croatan National Forests North Carolina       Additional Resources: ArcGIS Story Map: One More Day, Croatan National Forest Community Mitigation Assistance Team, USDA Forest Service Collaborative Wildfire Risk Reduction Program, USDA Forest Service