Ideas to Action 2021 Webinar Series:
Getting the Most out of Forest Service Agreements
Practitioners from across the West will share how they developed and implemented Forest Service agreements to successfully carry out partnership-based restoration on the national forest. This is for an audience familiar with the basics of agreements, that wants to learn more about the nuances of these partnership tools and how to maximize their potential.
Date and Time: Thursday, February 11, 2021, 1:30-3:00 PM
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Meet Our Panelists:
Liz Peterson
Liz is a Senior Administrative Analyst in the County Administrator’s Office for Tuolumne County, California. In this role, Liz manages the county’s Master Stewardship Agreement with the Stanislaus National Forest.
Brian McCrory
Brian is a Timber Contracting Officer for the Stanislaus National Forest in California. As program manager for the Master Stewardship Agreement between the Stanislaus National Forest and County of Tuolumne, Brian is responsible for the coordination of supplemental project agreements tiered to the master agreement.
The stewardship agreement between Tuolumne County and the Stanislaus National Forest has been used to accomplish a variety of activities over the past two years including timber sale preparation, resource survey work, prescribed fire prep, reforestation, and mechanical fuels treatments.
Laurel Baum
Laurel is the Central Cascades Conservation Associate with Conservation Northwest in Seattle. Laurel helps implement the organization’s challenge cost-share agreement with the Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest. She serves as a liaison between USFS specialists and the restoration contractor, which includes creating a contractor ‘scope of work’, overseeing the contractor while on-site, managing invoices and completing project reporting. The agreement activities include restoration and rehabilitation of unauthorized trails and motorized routes on the forest and performing archaeological surveys along system and non-system routes to support proposed rehabilitation.
Don Boucher
Don is retired after more than 40 years with the Forest Service, on the Rogue River-Siskiyou NF in Oregon. He was the Project Manager for the Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project, a partnership between the Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, the City of Ashland, and Lomakatsi Restoration Project. This project was implemented with a 10-year Master Stewardship Agreement, signed in 2010. Work primarily included non-commercial surface and ladder fuel removal, commercial helicopter density management, and prescribed fire.
Andy Lerch
Andy is the Lead Forester for the Arkansas River Watershed Collaborative, a regional non-profit that works on forest restoration and fuels reduction to benefit water resources in the Arkansas River Basin in Colorado. Andy helps implement the South Arkansas Stewardship Agreement, a 5-year agreement between USFS and ARWC. Signed in June 2019, the agreement allows the partners to remove spruce beetle kill on steep slopes on Monarch Pass and undertake other watershed improvement projects in the headwaters of the South Arkansas River.