“On the national forests managed by the U.S. Forest Service, there has been a substantial increase in the creation of formal ‘forest collaborative’ groups,” write Emily Jane Davis (Oregon State University) and Eric M. White (Pacific Northwest Research Center, U.S. Forest Service) in this blog post for The Intersector Project.

The authors look to Oregon, where at least 25 formal collaboratives currently exist, with a dedicated state-funded program that supports them. They present key insights from a survey of 215 forest collaborative group participants, asking, “Why do people participate in formal forest collaboratives, and are they satisfied with the outcomes?” and finding that economic motives are potentially not as important as managers or policy makers may assume.