Reflections from the Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership + Montana Forest Collaboration Network Joint Workshop
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership (IFRP) + Montana Forest Collaboration Network (MFCN) joint workshop. The creation of the Colorado Forest Collaboratives Network (CFCN) was in part inspired by networks across the West, including IFRP and MFCN, and the coordinators of these Networks have been extremely supportive in the first […]
Ask Atti: Engaging Collaborative Governance
“Dearest Atti, how have you successfully & meaningfully engaged your board and/or stakeholders in the process of creating or updating your organization’s governance documents?” – Katie Atti, the Peach-faced Lovebird, studiously gathered responses from other WCCN (Western Collaborative Conservation Network) partners to support Katie, and this is what he found: A good early step is to […]
Is your collaborative ready to prepare landscapes and communities to receive and recover from wildfire?
By Hannah Brown and Ch’aska Huayhuaca Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI), Colorado State University image credit: LVBrown Studios, LLC Imagine a future in which, when a wildland fire ignites and spreads towards highly valued resources and assets, it burns through the area with minimal damage and loss. Reduced fuel loads result in less smoke, and […]
Storyteller’s Circle July 27, 2023
Julia Debes, the Director of Agricultural Communications for Working Lands for Wildlife joined our July session to talk about engaging your team or organization in communications. Julia shared some tips and trips about Working Lands for Wildlife’s communications strategy, which results in a collaborative approach to sharing messages about exotic annual grass invasion, land use […]
A Systematic Review of Key Factors of Effective Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
“A Systematic Review of Key Factors of Effective Collaborative Governance of Social-Ecological Systems” is the result of a mixed methods traditional and systematic literature review that we carried out with several colleagues from Arizona State University. The goal of this project was to collate various theories about success among collaborative efforts to govern social-ecological systems […]
CCC News: July 2023
In this month’s newsletter, John shares his thoughts on cognitive bias in collaborative conservation. Registration for the Colorado Forest Collaboratives Network (CFCN) Summit is now open, we share a workshop, “From Consultation to Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous & Marginalized Communities in Conservation”, Atti the peach-faced lovebird tells us about how to transform competition into collaboration, […]
The CFCN Presents: Branching Out
Upcoming Sessions Thursday, March 26th, 2026 | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Topic: Forest Improvement Special Districts | Register here Thursday, April 30th 12:30 – 2:00pm | Topic TBD | Register here Tuesday, May 26th 12:00 – 1:30pm | Topic TBD | Register here Forest Improvement Special Districts Thursday, March 26th, 2026 | 12:30 – 2:00pm | Registration Link Session […]
WCCN All Partners Meeting Resources: Federal Funding for Collaborative Capacity
Thank you to Emery Cowan from Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition for presenting on updates and policy priorities related to federal funding for collaborative capacity! You can view a recording of her presentation here: You can find the record of our meeting’s materials here in our shared folder. Below are shared resources related to this […]
CCC News: April 2023
CCC News: April introduces our newest cohort of Fellows, announces upcoming workshops, and more opportunities to learn via recorded webinars, read more here: https://mailchi.mp/9499ef5d9888/ccc-news-april-2023
Storyteller’s Circle Kicks Off With a Focus on Video Production
On March 30th, the first Storyteller’s Circle workshop featured guest speaker Christi Bode of Moxiecran Media. Bode is a documentary film producer as well as a director, writer, and storyteller focusing on water, land, natural resources, and the connections between humans and ecological communities. Bode spoke about how communications professionals can find and work with […]