Cross-boundary cooperation: A mechanism for sustaining ecosystem services from private lands

Rickenbach, Mark; Schulte, Lisa A.; Kittredge, David B.; Labich, William G.; Shinneman, Doug

doi:10.2489/jswc.66.4.91a

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“…The creation of the Burney Gardens THP was successful because of a nested series of supportive institutions at multiple levels (from regional to federal), confirming previous findings (Epanchin-Neill et al 2010;Ostrom 2012;Rickenbach et al 2011). Epanchin-Neill et al (2010) proposed bottom-up, middle-level and topdown institutions, each with different roles in a cooperative partnership, with middle-level organizations facilitating communication and mediating between the managers on the ground and governmental agencies.…”

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“…A number of studies suggest that private landowners are willing to work cooperatively for various restoration objectives (Creighton et al 2002;Ferranto et al 2013;Fischer and Charnley 2012;Jacobson 2002;Rickenbach et al 2011). Most of these studies focus on hypothetical scenarios, asking landowners whether they would work across property boundaries rather than how they can create and implement projects that span ownerships.…”

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“…Policies at the state and federal levels have begun to address cross-boundary management -management that occurs across lands owned by different entities, with treatments implemented regardless of ownership type -facilitating both grassroots-based cooperative institutions, such as watershed councils (Rickenbach et al 2011), and policies aimed directly at federal land managers, such as the 2009 U.S. Forest Service Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stated that the U.S. Forest Service must work on restoration across property boundaries in an "all-lands approach" (USDA 2009), pointing toward the importance of land management that transcends ownership boundaries.…”

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Cooperative, cross-boundary management facilitates large-scale ecosystem restoration efforts

Kelly¹,

Kusel²

2015

Cal Ag

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In California and across the United States, landscape restoration projects often require cross-boundary cooperation, though successful examples are rare and not well understood. This case study describes the Burney Gardens timber harvesting plan, a cooperative, cross-boundary meadow restoration project undertaken by private corporate forest landowners in Northern California as part of a larger collaborative restoration effort. The project is notable because it (1) received institutional support -both financial and political -from federal, regional and local sources and (2) engaged a diverse group of stakeholders in pre-project planning with multiple agency partners. This approach enabled the project plan to pass through the rigorous California regulatory system in an unusually rapid fashion despite its complexity. The collaborative model of the Burney Gardens project is relevant to other restoration efforts, particularly as diverse ownerships across the West implement large-scale projects that cross property boundaries, including those of federal and private lands. I ncreasingly, large-scale restoration projects have become a priority for land managers in the United States, leading them to look beyond reserved lands (e.g., national parks) to the mix of private and public lands that characterize many watersheds (Lindenmayer and Franklin 2002 The Burney Gardens timber harvesting plan (THP) is a cross-boundary, cooperative restoration plan developed by four private forest landowners in Northern California (Shasta County) that are part of a CFLR group. The THP was developed to restore a degraded meadow system being encroached by lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), now growing in overstocked conditions as a result of fire suppression. Watercourses within the THP are degraded due to channelization and loss of riparian vegetation; this has resulted in erosion and insufficient shade. The Burney Gardens THP is now one of the largest watershed and meadow restoration projects ever proposed in California; restoration treatments include removal of lodgepole pine from the meadow as well as channel restoration. Some treatments have begun, such as thinning treatments around edges of the meadow, though much work remains (hydrological treatments are expected to begin summer 2015).The Burney Gardens THP is notable for multiple reasons: it engaged government Scott Carnegie Online: http://californiaagriculture.ucanr.edu/ landingpage.cfm?article=ca.v069n01p50&fulltext=yes doi: 10.3733/ca.v069n01p50The Burney Gardens timber harvesting plan, which covers over 2,500 acres of land held by four different owners, is one of the largest watershed and meadow restoration projects proposed in California.

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Cooperative, cross-boundary management facilitates large-scale ecosystem restoration efforts

Kelly¹,

Kusel²

2015

Cal Ag

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“…Scientific deficiency, however, also plagues the current practices system (Maresch et al 2008). Enhancement of landscape-scale functions is limited further to the extent that multiple individual landowners choose (for their own reasons) not to contribute to a landscape-scale plan (Rickenback 2011). Finally, gauging impacts on ecosystem services in terms of acres of applied practices can act as a disincentive for achieving conservation efficiency.…”

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Enhancing ecosystem services: Designing for multifunctionality

Dosskey¹,

Wells²,

Bentrup³

et al. 2012

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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“…For water quality management programs to be effective-both in terms of costs and biophysical outcomes-research suggests farm-level outputs must be coordinated with implementation, monitoring, and evaluation at watershed scales (Wortmann et al 2008;Morton and Brown 2011;Rickenbach et al 2011;Tomer et al 2013). Although watershed boundaries do not correlate with sociopolitical boundaries (Atwell et al 2009), managing according to ecological boundaries allows watershed practitioners to target resources to the most vulnerable parts of the landscape (Legge et al 2013).…”

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Toward a collaborative approach to watershed management: Lessons learned from the Boone River Watershed, Iowa

Enloe¹,

Schulte²,

Tyndall³

2014

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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Cross-boundary cooperation: A mechanism for sustaining ecosystem services from private lands

Cited by 45 publications

References 44 publications

Cooperative, cross-boundary management facilitates large-scale ecosystem restoration efforts

Cooperative, cross-boundary management facilitates large-scale ecosystem restoration efforts

Enhancing ecosystem services: Designing for multifunctionality

Toward a collaborative approach to watershed management: Lessons learned from the Boone River Watershed, Iowa

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