Members of the US FLN presented posters, participated in rountable presentations, moderated sessions, and met with leaders and practitioners from numerous other organizations and agencies © John Harrington / Sustainable Northwest

2008 Meeting

Western Stewardship Summit: Restoring Community and the Land

24-26 September 2008, Sunriver, OR

The Summit was sponsored by The Nature Conservancy in collaboration with Sustainable Northwest, American Lands Alliance, Lake County Resources Initiative, Resource Innovations, Wallowa Resources, Watershed Research & Training Center and Wildlands CPR. Over 250 practitioners, managers and leaders attended the Summit.

Sessions covered a wide range of topics, including forest restoration techniques and approaches, processes for effective collaboration, stewardship contracting tools, interactions between terrestrial and aquatic restoration, and accessing capital for restoration and stewardship. Electronic copies of posters and presentations will be posted to the Summit Web site to encourage continuing conversations and learning.

Download

• One-page summary of FLN participation in the Summit

2007 Meeting

7-9 March 2007, Tucson, AZ

The major themes of this meeting were (1) funding for landscape-level projects and (2) policy-related needs.

Special sessions provided tips on: raising private and public funding for landscape activities, communicating about the successes of your project, collaboration, and administering government grants.

Downloads

• Agenda
• Participant list
• Results of check-writing and landscape walk activities
• Workshop summary

2006 Meeting

The 2006 national USFLN meeting was held 29-30 March in Portland, Oregon. The meeting was held in conjunction with the U.S. National Interagency Fuels Group and the International Association of Wildland Fire.

Downloads

• Agenda
• Participant list
• Meeting highlights from the April 2006 edition of the FLN Dispatch
• National FLN poster (PDF, 210 KB)
• Great Plains FLN poster (PDF, 194 KB)
• Laurentian Mixed Forest FLN poster (PDF, 879 KB)
• Intermountain West FLN poster (PDF, 245 KB)
• Northeast FLN poster (PDF, 209 KB)
• Northwest FLN poster (PDF, 442 KB)
• Southcentral FLN poster (PDF, 861 KB)
• Southeast FLN poster (PDF, 255 KB)
• Southwest FLN poster (PDF, 255 KB)
• Powerpoint: FLN overview (PPT, 497 KB)
• Final Report from the Restoration Café (PDF, 339 KB)
  

2005 Meeting

The 2005 national USFLN meeting was held 8-10 February in New Bern, North Carolina. The theme of the meeting was "Putting it All Together — Accelerants for Success." Participants learned about innovative tools and new approaches to collaborative fire regime restoration.

The meeting included plenary talks on education, training and public policy; regional work sessions; and a full-day field trip to the Croatan National Forest.

Downloads

• Agenda
  
• Participant list
  
• The March 2005 and April 2005 editions of the FLN Dispatch contain highlights from this meeting.

2002-2003 Meetings

Read summaries of past workshops.