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Sustainable Northwest and partners have created a number of publications to advance sustainable natural resources management across the region. As we create electronic copies of our publications, we will add them to this list.

A West That Works
Courtney White, SNW partner and co-founder of the Quivira Coalition, created a website with a host of great information for sustainable ranching.
Best Value and Stewardship Contracting Guidebook
This guidebook provides information for those working on stewardship contracting with a basic understanding of its best value requirements, and offers examples of best value evaluation criteria used in actual project solicitations.
Community-Based Natural Resource Management in the Western United States: A Pilot Study of Capacity
An analysis of the capacity characteristics of community-based groups and the relationships of these groups with external organizations.
EAP Case Studies
Investing in Rural Communities and Forest Health in the West: Examples of the USDA Forest Service Economic Action Programs
EAP Case Study A
In 2004, National Network of Forest Practitioners created this Executive Summary of the Economic Action Program.
EAP Case Study B
In 2004, the National Network of Forest Practitioners created this briefing paper on the benefits of the Economic Action Program.
Economic Development Capacity in Public Lands Communities
A scan of economic development service provision in the Dry Forest Investment Zone of eastern and central Oregon and northern California to examine the services that these providers offer, their applicability to natural resource–based economic development, and the challenges and opportunities that natural resource–based economic development presents.
Forest Service Contracting: A Basic Guide for Restoration Practitioners
This guide provides an overview of the contracts, agreements, and permits available to pursue restoration work on national forests, and provides contractors with information on how to find and bid on restoration contracts.
Forest Stewardship Research
SNW partner, the Ecosystem Workforce Program, has released many papers related to the economic impacts of forest and watershed restoration.
Gifford Pinchot Restoration Profile
In 2005, Sustainable Northwest collaborated with the Gifford Pinchot Task Force and the Gifford Pinchot Collaborative Working Group to create this restoration profile of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and adjacent communities.
Mini Policy Training
This resource provides a concise overview of the legislative process and information about how your organization can play a greater role.
Overview of NEPA and Appeals
This paper was originally prepared in November 2003 by Jesse Abrams for Understanding Appeals and NEPA: A Workshop for Community-Based Forestry Groups that Sustainable Northwest convened in cooperation with the Pinchot Institute for Conservation and Wallowa Resources.
Red Lodge Clearinghouse
The Red Lodge Clearinghouse is a great resource for collaborators and resource stewards in the West.
Stewardship Contracting for Landscape-Scale Restoration
This Ecosystem Workforce Program working paper examines four strategies for implementing large scale, long term efforts to restore public lands and create local community benefit using current stewardship contracting authorities.
Stewardship Contracting Guidebooks
A series of three guidebooks discussing aspects of stewardship contracting including multiparty monitoring, collaboration, and best value criteria.
Strategies for Supporting Frontline Collaboration 2010
This report published by the IBM Center for The Business of Government addresses how an agency headquarters can encourage collaboration on the front line with community-level stakeholders. Findings give four strategies to foster collaboration: (1) creating time and space for collaboration, (2) changing agency rules to encourage collaboration, (3) providing staff incentives to collaborate, and (4) building the capacity to collaborate in the agency as well as among stakeholders.
Wallowa Whitman Restoration Profile
In 2006, Sustainable Northwest, Wallowa Resources and Hells Canyon Preservation Council collaborated on this restoration profile of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.
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