2008 Talking Points:

1. The Forest Service should devolve authority to approve stewardship projects, contracts, and agreements to
   the forest level in cases where there is experience with stewardship contracting.
2. The Forest Service should modify the timber appraisal system so that it does a better job of responding to the
   realities of removing smaller trees and removing a smaller volume per acre for restoration purposes.
3. The Forest Service should allow the use of retained receipts for project-level multiparty monitoring.
4. The Forest Service should create performance measures and budgeting processes that move the agency
   away from output targets and high-acreage, low-cost management, which short-change both ecological
   and socioeconomic goals of stewardship contracting and make it difficult for the agencies to engage fully in
   collaboration.
5. Congress should amend the Federal Acquisitions Regulations to allow the Forest Service and BLM to cover
   the costs of canceling a multi-year stewardship contract after the contract has been canceled.

Read the detailed 2008 Stewardship Contracting talking points.