Cooperative, cross-boundary management facilitates large-scale ecosystem restoration efforts
In California and across the United States, landscape restoration projects often require cross-boundary cooperation, though successful examples are rare and not well understood. This case study describes the Burney Gardens timber harvesting plan, a cooperative, cross-bound...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
2015-01-01
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| Series: | California Agriculture |
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| Online Access: | http://calag.ucanr.edu/archive/?article=ca.v069n01p50 |
| Summary: | In California and across the United States, landscape restoration projects often require
cross-boundary cooperation, though successful examples are rare and not well understood.
This case study describes the Burney Gardens timber harvesting plan, a cooperative,
cross-boundary meadow restoration project undertaken by private corporate forest landowners
in Northern California as part of a larger collaborative restoration effort. The project
is notable because it (1) received institutional support — both financial and political
— from federal, regional and local sources and (2) engaged a diverse group of stakeholders
in pre-project planning with multiple agency partners. This approach enabled the project
plan to pass through the rigorous California regulatory system in an unusually rapid
fashion despite its complexity. The collaborative model of the Burney Gardens project
is relevant to other restoration efforts, particularly as diverse ownerships across
the West implement large-scale projects that cross property boundaries, including
those of federal and private lands. |
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| ISSN: | 0008-0845 2160-8091 |