The Road to Restoration - Workshop 2013
IFRP invites Idaho forest collaborative groups to participate in a two day Workshop on Tools and Strategies for Effective Forest Restoration
Location: Owyhee Plaza Hotel, Boise, ID
Registration: $80 ($100 after January 1st)
2012 was a banner year for collaborative forest restoration in Idaho. Projects are moving forward in the Panhandle, Nez Perce-Clearwater, Payette, Boise and Salmon-Challis national forests. Three Idaho collaborative groups secured funding through the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Act. The Hughes Creek project developed with the Lemhi County Forest Restoration Group is credited with helping firefighters control the huge Mustang Complex Fire.
The Road to Restoration Workshop aims to help local groups build on their successes. This workshop has three objectives: (1) share lessons learned with people from across Idaho; (2) explore cutting edge issues such as integrating road and trail management into forest restoration; and (3) learn how new Forest Service policies and initiatives could affect collaboration.
Click on each of the topic headings below for details.
| January 23 |
9:00-9:30am | Welcome, Agenda Review and Icebreaker |
9:30-10:45am | State of the Forest – What’s Happening on the Ground: Each collaborative group will discuss its: (1) greatest successes; (2) greatest challenges; and (3) biggest thing coming up. |
10:45-11:00am | Break |
11:00am--12:00pm | Panel Discussion – Integrating Road Management into Forest Restoration. Several collaborative groups are grappling whether and how to restore existing road and trail networks as part of landscape-scale restoration strategies. Panelists will introduce key considerations relevant to road management including sediment, wildlife, recreational access, costs (maintenance, decommissioning), and aquatic restoration objectives. |
Noon | Lunch Served on Site |
1:00-2:30pm | Breakout Sessions – Integrating Road Management into Forest Restoration:Small group discussion to:(1) define the road management issues faced by local collaborative groups, (2) identify information and technical tools needed to help groups agree on road management, and (3) describe outcomes that could work for stakeholders and land managers. |
2:30-2:45pm | Break |
2:45-4:15pm | Full Group Discussion – Going Deep on Road Management.Participants will interact with experts on the issues, needs and solutions identified by the breakout groups. |
4:30pm | Wrap Up and Preview of Second Day |
5:00pm | Social Hour – at Owyhee Plaza (no host bar) |
January 24 | |
8:30-10:00am | New Policies and Initiatives – Are the Land Agencies Embracing Collaboration? Key issues include the Forest Service’s budget trends, Integrated Resources Restoration pilot program , new forest planning rule, and Idaho’s Forest Action Plan. |
10:00-10:15am | Break |
10:15-11:15am | From Vision to Reality –Navigating the NEPA and Appeals Process.This discussion will review the progress and the pitfalls that collaborative groups have encountered as their projects advance from the meeting room to the forest. |
11:15-12:15pm | Landscape Assessment as a Tool for Collaboration. New scientific tools are helping collaborative groups understand landscape conditions and trends. Can these tools contribute to a broadly shared vision for forest restoration? |
12:15-1:15pm | Lunch – Served on Site |
1:15-2:30pm | Keeping It Vital – How to Sustain Effective Collaborative Groups.This discussion will explore practical problems and solutions for sustaining the vitality of collaborative groups – from fundraising to motivating members to actually show up at meetings. |
2:30-3:00pm | Wrap Up and What’s Next for the Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership |
Workshop Facilitator
Integrating Road Management into Forest Restoration
New Policies and Initiatives
From Vision to Reality: Navigating the NEPA and Appeals Process
Landscape Assessment as a Tool for Collaboration
Amy Haak, Trout Unlimited
Ryan Haugo, The Nature Conservancy
Greg Bevenger, USFS, Intermountain Region
Keeping it Vital: How to Sustain Collaborative Groups
Karen DiBari, National Forest Foundation
Dave Torell, SharedVISION
The IFRP may have travel assistance funds for this Workshop, depending on sponsor financial support.
The funds would be available to partially cover travel and/or lodging expenses for those participants outside of the Boise Area.
All workshop participants will need to pay the registration fee this year (includes lunches both days).
To request support for travel, please complete this form.
Phone: 208-343-4611
Toll Free: 1-800-233-4611
1109 Main St. Boise, ID 83702
A block of rooms at $79/ night is reserved at the Owyhee Plaza Hotel for the nights of Jan. 22 and 23. Inform the hotel staff that you are reserving the room in order to attend the Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership meeting. Reserve the room by January 9, 2013 to receive the IFRP rate.