Overcoming challenges to successful stewardship contracting
Identify a suite of strategies for overcoming the most pressing challenges to implementing stewardship contracts that provide ecological, economic, and social benefits. Work through interactive and facilitated exercises to capture the emergent learning of stewardship practitioners
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Friday, 2:00pm
Identify a suite of strategies for overcoming the most pressing challenges to implementing stewardship contracts that provide ecological, economic, and social benefits. Work through interactive and facilitated exercises to capture the emergent learning of stewardship practitioners.
Topics to be covered:
• Experiences and insights from stewardship practitioners
• Lessons learned, hypothesis for improvement, and advanced strategies for implementing stewardship contracting
Instructors
- Nick Goulette, Research Associate and Local Stewardship Coordinator, Watershed Research and Training Center
- Marcus Kauffman, Program Manager, Resource Innovations
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Nick Goulette
Nick Goulette is the Research Associate & Local Stewardship Coordinator at the Watershed Research and Training Center in Hayfork, CA. Nick's work centers around community-based and regional research into forest work contracting and wood utilization, coordinating local collaboration with the US Forest Service associated with forest restoration and fuel reduction activities, developing assistance programs for local contractors, and advocacy for national forest, energy, and development policies that benefit rural communities. Previously, he spent one year working in New York's Adirondack Park, northern New Hampshire, and western Maine marking timber sales and conducting forest inventory for a small private forestry firm. He earned a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Vermont (2004) with a concentration in Community-based Forestry. While in Vermont, he also worked as a Research Assistant for the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics studying characteristics of forest management planning in the state relative to ecological economic and sustainable forestry principles.
Marcus Kauffman
Marcus Kauffman has extensive experience working with rural communities in the Pacific Northwest. His work focuses on developing public-private collaborations with rural communities to improve natural resource and economic development opportunities. He has developed collaboratives that have addressed ecosystem restoration, sustained yield units, community fire protection planning, stewardship contracting, and more recently woody biomass utilization.
Marcus is a long-time Oregonian. He was raised in rural southern Oregon where he worked in his father’s post and pole construction and log furniture business. Among the many skills he learned from his father was horse-logging. He earned a bachelor’s in international studies from the University of Oregon, including a year abroad in Poitiers, France. He served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic where he worked with community leaders to provide more potable water and coached a youth baseball team.
After the Peace Corps, Marcus worked in his hometown of Cave Junction, Oregon for two years with the AmeriCorps program. His efforts to develop sustainable businesses and eco-tourism opportunities helped him realize the complexity of the challenges rural communities face and the inadequacy of his training. He returned to University of Oregon where he earned a Master’s of Community and Regional Planning with an emphasis on rural community development.
Prior to joining Resource Innovations Marcus worked for Sustainable Northwest and the Watershed Research and Training Center. He lives in Eugene with his wife and energetic three-year old daughter Eleni. His interests include mountain biking, woodworking, gardening, and spending time with friends and family.
