Prioritizing limited resources in landscape-scale management projects

Abstract

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  Bringing diverse groups together in collaboration to solve complex landscape-scale issues presents opportunities and challenges.

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  Collaborating at the planning stage of restoration projects can be slow. It takes time to build relationships, and meeting people “where they are at” is often the accomplishment.

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  Success in collaboration comes from gathering the local knowledge to move forward with implementing projects.

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  Long-standing collaborative groups often face challenges with keeping stakeholders and partners involved particularly when tracking past projects. Finding continued funding to maintain the projects implemented years earlier takes effort usually on behalf of the convening organization.