Engagement Wayfinder, USFWS
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s Engagement Wayfinder is an orientation to public engagement. Public engagement enables the government to incorporate public concerns, needs, and values into projects and decisions. It is sometimes used interchangeably with other terms like public participation, stakeholder engagement, and community engagement. Central to all of these terms is the idea […]
What is the FASS-ination? An Appreciative Inquiry Approach
Kayla Blades, BLM Grants Management Specialist Idaho State Office Idaho mana
Mature and Old-Growth Forests: Partnerships for Success
Shanna Kleinsmith, USDA FS Writer-Editor National Forest System, Policy Office Idaho
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
Establishing a Climate Network
Lauren Miller, USFWS Social Scientist Region 8 Science Applications Nevada
Bringing Social Values to Wildlife Conservation Decisions
Sustainable conservation of wildlife is contingent upon the human context in which it occurs. Humans regularly exert a powerful influence on the survival and persistence of species, yet social-science information is used only sporadically in conservation decisions. Using data obtained from a survey of 46,894 US residents, we developed and applied a spatially explicit “sociocultural […]
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
Collaboration and Conflict Transformation in Multiparty Processes
Natural resource professionals involved in multiparty collaborative decision processes face increasingly complex decisions where underlying conflict can undermine their efficacy if unknown or inappropriately addressed. Conflict transformation encompasses managing and resolving conflict by harnessing the energy inherent in conflicts to motivate change and improvement, not only of the decision but also of the institutions and […]
Unsheltered Homelessness in Parks and Protected Areas in Northern California
Jesse Engebretson, EPA Social Science Researcher Office of Research and Development Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division Minnesota
21 Partnership Success Factors
Brian O’Neill’s 21 Partnership Success Factors summarize best practices developed from two decades at Golden Gate National Recreation Area. As the Superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Brian O’Neill (1941-2009) and his staff earned a reputation as a model partnership park where partnerships are a way of approaching how best to accomplish the park’s […]
