Adaptive Management Area Network Activities

Managing young stands to meet LSR and Riparian objectives.  Keynotes comments by Jerry Franklin at workshop held in Portland, Oregon on August 29, 2001. 

"The Northwest Forest Plan provides for silvicultural activities to accelerate development of old-growth forest attributes in young stands located in Late Successional Reserves."  Jerry Franklin provides "some perspective on the intentions of the FEMAT" and his views on "scientific considerations relevant to development and adoption of guidelines and prescriptions to implement the provision."

AMA Development and Current Status Study

Purpose: Study of the development and current status of the AMA effort across the entire system of Adaptive Management Areas. Investigators formed a "snapshot" picture of what's happening on the AMAs. The focus of this study is on the social, economic, institutional, and organizational elements of the AMAs. There are five specific components to this study: communications/public participation, forum and process management, economic, the role of science, and institutional change.
Status: Interviews initiated summer of 1996; completed 1997.
Key Contacts: Linda Kruger, Seattle Lab of the PNW Research Station.
This is an independent study was conducted by five social scientists from the University of Washington and Syracuse University. The Social Science Research Team consisted of Alex Antypas, Amanda Graham, Clayton Hobart, Gordon Smith, and Tamara Steger. Margaret Shannon, University of Washington, is the project leader.

Monitoring and Evaluating Citizen and Agency Interactions on Adaptive Management Areas

Purpose: Established a monitoring and evaluation framework for citizen/agency interactions on Adaptive Management Areas. 
Methods: Examined the written record - the plans, reports, and home pages - along with evidence and ideas from public involvement, adaptive management and other literature.
Documentation: Proposal available from investigator.
Location: The Adaptive Management Areas.
Key contacts: Kristine Aldred Cheek email cheekk@ccmail.orst.edu and Bruce Shindler email shindleb@ccmail.orst.edu

Adaptive Management Areas: achieving the promise, avoiding the peril.

Purpose: Identified barriers Adaptive Management Areas have to becoming a learning organization; Identified recommended actions that managers, researchers and citizens need to consider to ensure that communities and forest management can be more closely linked.
Findings:

1. There is a need to work toward a common definition of the problems that adaptive management and AMAs are intended to solve.
2. There is a need for clarification about the role AMAs play as well as the roles that various stakeholders should take on.
3. Broad public representation is essential to the successes of the AMAs.
4. Achieving broad public representation implies a willingness to honor the legitimacy of the range of concerns identified and the knowledge revealed.
5. For interested citizens and communities to have a "real" ability to participate in, and an influence on, AMAs, they must possess a capacity for participation.
6. It is critical that the future of the AMAs be linked to wider social and economic concerns within communities.
7. In the absence of a clear public identification with an AMA, there is a need to undertake efforts to establish one.
8. Each of the propositions contain significant research challenges.
9. We must understand that successful implementation of adaptive management in the AMAs will take time.

Documentation: See title above. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-394. March 1997.
Authors: George H. Stankey email stankeyg@ccmail.orst.edu and Bruce Shindler email shindleb@ccmail.orst.edu

Public Involvement in Federal Forest Management: A Study of Adaptive Management Areas

Purpose: Assessed the AMAs experiences with public involvement and identify elements of success for future public involvement.
Method: Conducting on-site interviews with key AMA participants, including citizens and agency personnel.
Location: All Adaptive Management Areas
Status: Papers given; please contact the author.
Documentation: Currently, a summary is available. Interview techniques and questions available from investigator.
Key Contact: Kelly O'Brien, email obriank@ccmail.orst.edu