The National Forest Foundation will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, December 3rd, 2020, from 11 am – 12:30 pm PST, titled, “Measuring the Impact of Shared Stewardship: Tools for Measuring Success” Peer Learning Session. This is the fifth in a series of webinars, more information about the series can be found on the National Forest Foundation’s website by clicking here.

Click here to register for the webinar.

Session objectives:
  • Catalyze connections among people working on these issues.
  • Learn how Utah and Massachusetts are working to define Shared Stewardship success.
  • Provide an overview of efforts to identify, capture, and evaluate shared stewardship success at multiple scales.
  • Share sources of support for state and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)-level development of measures of success.
  • Explore the questions, “What counts as Shared Stewardship?” and “What does Shared Stewardship success look like?”
  • Explore ideas, questions, and opportunities surrounding how accomplishments that are co-funded or have co-benefits may be measured.
  • Share examples of indicators under exploration at different scales.
Speakers:
  • Jessica Robertson, USDA Forest Service, Integrated Restoration Coordinator;
  • Kenli Kim, USDA Forest Service, National Program Lead for Social Science in Research and Development;
  • Laura Ault, Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands Shared Stewardship Coordinator;
  • Bob O’Connor, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Forest and Land Policy Director;
  • Sally Claggett, USDA Forest Service, Chesapeake Watershed Forestry Coordinator.

Direct questions about the webinar to Ben Irey at birey@nationalforests.org