ABSTRACT
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) reflects the evolving relationship between science and social values and aims to strike a balance between the role of scientific information and collaborative group input in decision making. This chapter addresses how CFLRP projects accessed, delivered, and rated existing scientific information; how new scientific information was developed, and what factors inhibited the use of science. Using results from interviews and surveys with five CFLRP projects, this chapter focuses on the role of boundary organizations (i.e. groups that work to bridge across scientific and management communities and contexts) which were the most common and preferred sources of scientific information. Oral, in-person science delivery was the most common science delivery approach, but respondents preferred peer-reviewed articles, indicating that science delivery must be iterative and ongoing, and communicated in both oral and written formats that are tailored to a specific context and audience. Boundary organizations can assist in science delivery by providing access to the best available scientific information and to boundary spanners with specific expertise or skills in developing science delivery in collaboration with stakeholders and agency representatives. Knowledge co-production can produce more meaningful, context-specific scientific information, particularly in collaborative restoration contexts that require integrating scientific information and diverse stakeholder values.
