Stewardship Contracting Guidebooks
A series of three guidebooks discussing aspects of stewardship contracting including multiparty monitoring, collaboration, and best value criteria.
Multiparty Monitoring and Stewardship Contracting: A Tool for Adaptive Management is the last in a series of three guidebooks published in 2011 by Sustainable Northwest.
This unique and informative guide is a ‘how to’ filled with examples and answers to many questions and pit falls commonly experienced by collaborative groups seeking to develop a multiparty monitoring program. The guide is especially useful for members of collaborative groups and federal agency personnel interested in developing a multiparty monitoring program to measure socioeconomic and ecological changes resulting from land management.
Published in 2008, Stewardship Contracting and Collaboration: Best Practices Guidebook is the second in the stewardship contracting guidebook series.
This guide is intended to provide information to Forest Service and non-agency representatives anticipating involvement in, or already participating in, stewardship contracting collaborative groups. It includes information on opportunities for collaboration throughout the stewardship contracting process, offers suggestions of best practices for each step, and includes links to a wealth of additional resources.
The first book in the series, Best Value & Stewardship Contracting Guidebook: Meeting Ecological and Community Objectives was published in 2006.
Stewardship Contracts provide agencies, communities, and businesses with a new way to offer, package, and implement projects on public lands. The purpose of this guidebook is to provide those working on stewardship contracting with a basic understanding of its best value requirements and to offer examples of best value evaluation criteria used in actual project solicitations. Stewardship contracting authorities require that, regardless of other mechanisms used, all individual projects are offered using best value criteria.
