ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the historical context for the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) as we consider how forest management goals have changed over the years and explore what this has meant for governance. It provides a detailed overview of the CFLRP legislation and its antecedents in collaborative forest restoration policy and practice to set the stage. The chapter offers insights into some of the most important questions for social scientists studying collaborative forest restoration, and finish with an outline of the organization of the volume. The CFLRP policy experiment allowed social scientists to examine questions that have yet to be resolved and in a particularly interesting context. The CFLRP portends a sea change in forest management. To see the transformation come to full fruition, the agency, collaborators, and Congress will have to commit to further investments of time, energy, creativity, and funding.
