ABSTRACT
Collaboration in forest management in the United States and globally has become more than just a trend; it has become ubiquitous. The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) provides the opportunity to deepen and broaden scholarship on collaborative environmental management in several areas. The CFLRP offered a chance to examine what capacities were needed and how they could be maintained. The CFLRP also yielded significant lessons about the role of science and science-providers in collaborative processes and the strategies and processes for monitoring and adaptive management. The CFLRP research also generated practical implications for collaborative governance more broadly, beyond agency administrative practice. As the CFLRP comes to the end of its first ten years, there is much to reflect on regarding the future of collaborative forest management. CFLRP marks a pilot experiment for a new way of conducting business in US forest management.
