Collaborative forest landscape restoration in action

Abstract

This chapter provides a brief overview of the twenty-three landscape projects and collaborative groups participating in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP). The CFLRP landscape projects cover national forests in nearly all of the US Forest Service regions, with a preponderance of sites in the western United States. The law that authorized the creation of CFLRP stated that funding had to be spent on US Forest Service lands. Therefore, National Forest lands dominate the program and management responsibility falls on the shoulders of US Forest Service personnel. As the CFLRP is funded and implemented through the US Forest Service, the relationship of the agency to collaborative groups can be complex. In terms of landscape characteristics, the CFLRP cases are united by their focus on restoring forests so as to reduce wildland fire threats and management costs, as well as enhance ecological system functions and habitat for target species.