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Collaborations and capacities to transform fire management by Schultz, Courtney A, Moseley, Cassandra

“…Progress requires attention to governance at multiple levels Wildfires bring stark attention to interactions among climate change, fire, forests, and…”
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Adapting wildland fire governance to climate change in Alaska by Rutherford, Tait K., Schultz, Courtney A.

“…We use concepts drawn from the adaptive governance literature to examine challenges and opportunities for fire management in Alaska, where rising average…”
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Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Forest Management: The Case of the U.S. Forest Service by Thomas J. Timberlake, Courtney A. Schultz

“…Forest managers need access to targeted scientific information about the impacts of climate change in order to adapt to climate change. Vulnerability…”
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Policy tools to address scale mismatches: insights from U.S. forest governance by Schultz, Courtney A., Timberlake, Thomas J., Wurtzebach, Zachary, McIntyre, Kathleen B., Moseley, Cassandra, Huber-Stearns, Heidi R.

“…Recent literature has highlighted the growing array of scale mismatches in environmental governance and offered policy design principles for improved…”
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Enhancing adaptive capacity for restoring fire-dependent ecosystems: the Fire Learning Network’s Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges by Spencer, Andrew G., Schultz, Courtney A., Hoffman, Chad M.

“…Prescribed fire is a critical tool for promoting restoration and increasing resilience in fire-adapted ecosystems, but there are barriers to its use, including…”
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Why companies fund climate change projects on national forests: insights into the motivations of the Forest Service’s corporate partners by Collins, Natasha Haruka, Schultz, Courtney A.

“…Climate change is significantly impacting forest ecosystems and the ecosystem services they provide. As the U.S. Forest Service faces budget constraints and…”
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Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible by Stephens, Scott L, Westerling, A LeRoy, Hurteau, Matthew D, Peery, M Zachariah, Schultz, Courtney A, Thompson, Sally

“…The destructive wildfires that occurred recently in the western US starkly foreshadow the possible future of forest ecosystems and human communities in the…”
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Policy design to support cross-boundary land management: The example of the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership by Cyphers, Laren A., Schultz, Courtney A.

“…•Policy approaches must engage non-state actors and support interagency coordination.•The Partnership’s flexible structure supported locally tailored…”
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Toward a Social-Ecological Theory of Forest Macrosystems for Improved Ecosystem Management by William J. Kleindl, Paul C. Stoy, Michael W. Binford, Ankur R. Desai, Michael C. Dietze, Courtney A. Schultz, Gregory Starr, Christina L. Staudhammer, David J. A. Wood

“…The implications of cumulative land-use decisions and shifting climate on forests, require us to integrate our understanding of ecosystems, markets, policy,…”
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Policy, practice, and partnerships for climate change adaptation on US national forests by Timberlake, Thomas J., Schultz, Courtney A.

“…Climate change presents a challenge to land management agencies tasked with managing landscapes to protect natural resources and provide key goods and services…”
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Facilitating collaboration in forest management: Assessing the benefits of collaborative policy innovations by McIntyre, Kathleen B., Schultz, Courtney A.

“…•The CFLRP is generating collaborative benefits suggesting that this policy has been effective at facilitating collaboration.•The efficacy of the CFLRP is…”
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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: A History and Overview of the First Projects by Schultz, Courtney A, Jedd, Theresa, Beam, Ryan D

“…In 2009, Congress passed the Forest Landscape Restoration Act, a significant new piece of legislation guiding restoration activities on competitively selected…”
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Forest Service fire management and the elusiveness of change by Schultz, Courtney A., Thompson, Matthew P., McCaffrey, Sarah M.

“…Background There is broad recognition that fire management in the United States must fundamentally change and depart from practices that have led to an…”
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Comparing Land Manager and Community Perceptions of a Colorado Prescribed Fire Outreach Program by McGrath Novak, Katie, McCaffrey, Sarah, Schultz, Courtney A

“…Researchers and practitioners often emphasize the importance of effective community engagement around forest management projects to address possible barriers…”
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Organizational learning during policy implementation: lessons from U.S. forest planning by Ricco, Gwendolyn, Schultz, Courtney A.

“…Learning is critical for land management agencies implementing new policies in the face of rapid social and ecological change. We investigated learning in the…”
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U.S. Family Forest Owners' Forest Management for Climate Adaptation: Perspectives From Extension and Outreach Specialists by vonHedemann, Nicolena, Schultz, Courtney A.

“…In the United States (US), family forest owners, a group that includes individuals, families, trusts, and estates, are the largest single landowner category,…”
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Decision-Making Triggers in Adaptive Management by Nie, Martin A., Schultz, Courtney A.

“…We analyzed whether decision-making triggers increase accountability of adaptive-management plans. Triggers are prenegotiated commitments in an…”
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Working on institutions while planning for forest resilience: a case study of public land management in the United States by Timberlake, Thomas J., Schultz, Courtney A., Evans, Alexander, Abrams, Jesse B.

“…How do managers reconcile new priorities for responding to ecological change with traditional decision-making processes? We address this question with a focus…”
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Forest policy and management approaches for carbon dioxide removal by vonHedemann, Nicolena, Wurtzebach, Zachary, Timberlake, Thomas J., Sinkular, Emily, Schultz, Courtney A.

“…Forests increasingly will be used for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a natural climate solution, and the implementation of forest-based CDR presents a complex…”
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Disturbance shapes the US forest governance frontier: A review and conceptual framework for understanding governance change by Schultz, Courtney A., Abrams, Jesse B., Davis, Emily Jane, Cheng, Antony S., Huber-Stearns, Heidi R., Moseley, Cassandra

“…Conflict in US forest management for decades centered around balancing demands from forested ecosystems, with a rise in place-based collaborative governance at…”
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