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Subject: “What’s Working,” “Barriers,” or “Bold Idea.”

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Subject: “What’s Working,” “Barriers,” or “Bold Idea.”

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Add your table’s key takeaway here. Maybe it’s your top takeaway, the single idea you want to highlight, or a standout response that stuck with the group. Feel free to add a sentence or two of detail if it helps explain your point.

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What's working that leadership should know about? 

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What's working that leadership should know about? 

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Place-based collaboratives working with agencies, in doing so bringing partners in, who engage with the public. A chain of collaboration and a diversity of actors that leads to the public interfacing with champions and not people who are perceived as just “the government.”

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Disinformation, the belief forests are not a public utility, general apathy, and capacity limitations.

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Loans for wood utilization and mass timber expansion.

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1. Strengthening the Good Neighbor Authority

2. Capacity and support for non-profits

3. Funding for specialized outreach positions

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Recognition and comradery are essential to workforce retention.

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Costs - hauling, equipment, land purchases for operations… you name it.

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1. Outreach at the local level is working and homeowners, landowners, and recreators are generally receptive to action on public and private land.

2. We lack influence and champions to carry the message forward.

3. Broaden the reach to all Coloradans, not just WUI residents.

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State funded, value added producer grant for forest products.

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There are emerging markets for forestry products like biochar, mass timber

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Cost of biomass removal and treatments. In-forest treatment costs, Transportation costs, cost of mill/ processing infrastructure

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Innovative funding and policy such as a state tax break for using CO made forest products

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Go meet one-on-one with key stakeholders at their schedule

Not expectecting every one at every meeting - make sure that they are able to engage where their interests lie

Allow ppl as much space as they wish to take

Raise awareness and accessibility

Find overlapping values and goals with partners

Neighborhood Ambassador approach - people are often trust their neighbors

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We are building a collaborative culture and that means: collaborate, trust, and empower local partners.

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Federal capacity (financial & staffing)

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1. Taxes (state, regional, local)

2. Community empowerment (training and volunteering)

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a.      We are deliberative in showing up for our collaboratives and working meaningfully with them through uncertainty.

b.      Recognizing our federal counterparts are phenomenal and that is the key to getting the work done. How will we adapt when we lose these people?

i.      Silver lining is that this is a testament to the good work that has been done over the past 5 years. We cannot afford them to unravel- getting them back would be nearly impossible.

b.      Partners are showing up in new ways- while funding is still trickling there is uncertainty for what that may look like into the future. All partners are recognizing the importance of this.

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What is one thing that is working that leadership and others should know about?

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What is one thing that is working that leadership and others should know about?

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We need to invest more in funding and empowerment. Leadership needs to take that seriously, as seriously as the other issues they are grappling with.

This is done by creating capacity! Creating positions for Tribal Liaisons, for example, like DNR.

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What is one thing that is working that leadership and other should know about?

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What is one thing that is working that leadership and other should know about?

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We all care, and want to integrate climate smart planning into forest management. The public is so ready manage forest with climate smart planning and putting pressure on managers. Leadership needs to meet that pressure provide managers with the resources. Theres is a huge opportunity with private landowners.

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Sharing control is hard but needed. In order to share control you have to cede some control within your own decision space.

Design and implement structures that facilitate shared decision space for your organization and the partners you work with.

Shared accountability is essential to have shared trust and open up shared decision space

Always focus on accomplishing the goal

Momentum is rewarded and funded, enable that!

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There's a huge disconnect between priorities at different scales. Individuals want to address the issues in their backyards - USFS wants to address issues on their 10 priority landscapes. We need more opportunities for people to focus on where priorities overlap. We need more facilitators and to invest in facilitation and collaborative capacity.

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- Organizational/individual: small nonprofits–everyone is super busy, simply making the time and making this a priority and the landscape in Colorado makes it more difficult.

- Higher institutional: SO MANY barriers to what we are trying to do in general. Working with Indigenous Peoples is one of those many barriers

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Stop trying to find bold ideas. Do the work needed to get a toe-hold on progress to make change

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What is working and what leadership and others should know?

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What is working and what leadership and others should know?

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Colorado Water Conservation Board's Wildfire Ready Watersheds program is working well; it's nimble and provides a plan and structure for funding and partners to rally around. It contains wholistic wildfire planning, looking pre to post fire. It also includes many sectors- community risk, watershed risk, infrastructure risk- easy for partners and people to support.

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One bold thing to carry forward at the state level

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One bold thing to carry forward at the state level

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We need to all advocate for and auppprt our state partners for the state to be the prescribed fire resource. It is currently an unfunded mandate of DFPC and they need support, funding, and personnel to move forward prescribed fire on private lands. We cannot continue asking the smallest and most vulnerable organizations to enact such a big program and new endeavor, while the state is the entity that could actually move this work forward that is essential to ecological integrity and wildfire resilience.

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Money and wealth exists and is not a barrier. Administrative barriers restrict access to funding for key forestry and wildfire work, especially local and state funds

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a.      Agreements are ending in uncertain times. Partners are giving grace and decisions are being made fast. Now is the time to be adaptable, innovative and accepting the uncertainty.

b.      Hesitancy in in decisions by leaders because of the uncertainty.

c.      Emotional experience of uncertainty and impacts to individuals. Greater workload, stop-work orders,  and managing what that means for agencies and most importantly the individuals that drive this work.

d.      The need to show up differently in place-based collaboratives and communities and acknowledging the “rug being pulled out” feeling associated with trickle-down impacts.

e.      How do we help and be there with what we have. Being intentional about being efficient with our collaboratives so our impact can still be at the local level. Pushing on pathways for funding within the risk- see the need for upfront funding.

f.        When funding is cut, the first thing to go is communication. How to communicate all the aspects of natural resource are inextricably tied.

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Coordinated and prioritized across all lands, capacity challanges.

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What is one bold idea to carry forward at a statewide or regional level?

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What is one bold idea to carry forward at a statewide or regional level?

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Invest big money in Indigenous jobs (won’t happen at the federal level), CoCo already has roles that are leading things like that, try to replicate successful examples.

Indigenous leadership

Indigenous cultural burning not requiring red card certification

Get into true partnership and co-creation

Be very intentional about setting up these opportunities for co-creation

Be brave: organizations that can prioritize this, MUST, since federally funded folks might not be able to

Be hopeful and creative

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a.      Collaboratives work when there is someone there to champion it. Without those people, we lose momentum. When budgets come down and you have to decide between acres treated and collaborative capacity, acres treated win every time. How to we continue to communicate that those two are intractably tied.

b.      Consolidation is many ways the reality. How do we do this intentionally.

a.      People came together in collaboratives when there was an identified collaborative need. These needs prevail.

b.      With challenges through all the change, looking to the silver lining of where the opportunities lie to rebuild something better.

c.      Gatherings (like this one) are essential in these uncertain times. We need places without barriers for people to come together.

d.      Going back to the communities- there is room to ask for more of them, more of an exchange, and we think communities are open to that. Capitalizing on how fired these communities are right now.

e.      Are we collectively unprepared? Where can we streamline on our strengths as agencies to support us all in these trying times.

f.        Moving at the speed of trust+ assuming good intentions

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Funding sustainability to help outlets that utilized woody biomass. Sustaining contractors through funding gaps (seasonality, job gaps). Important to cater to small business to make it fair and equitable

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What’s working: local outreach. Collaboration. Sharing best practices. Flexible funding.

Remaining barriers: funding.

Bold idea: Forward funding. Support conservation finance.

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What is one bold idea to carry forward at a statewide or regional level?

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What is one bold idea to carry forward at a statewide or regional level?

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POD line experiments - a lot of management and high intensity treatment happening along POD boundaries creating a great opportunity for experimenting with climate adaptation strategies.

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The Forest Health Council's 30 Year Vision for Forest Health in Colorado is developed with input from diverse partners and integrates previous planning efforts. It is funded at scale for all partners and implemented fully across levels (local, state and federal) and sectors.

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We need planned acres to be a reporting metric, not just treated acres. Planned acres allows us to show how we are making climate trade offs and that an intentional lack of cutting in an area is still a management choice that can support our collective goals.

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Sharing control is hard but needed. In order to share control you have to cede some control within your own decision space. This is our biggest barrier.

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Human values and that the future forest should look like the forest that currently exists or how it has looked.

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Lack of outlets for biomass. Equal opportunities to the smaller businesses. Money for mills & Contractors to fill funding gaps for future opportunities (new businesses) and supporting existing businesses

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Large scale contracting - utilizing larger scale contracts to sustain loggers long-term.

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The federal government is still the owner of the public land, and we still need approvals and permissions to get any work done.

Federal agencies need to work better with state agencies

Red Tape at BIA

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Support people in the jobs they're in - temporary moratorium on moving jobs :)

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Alternative funding sources.

Partnerships - digging into the collaborative process, going around the federal process.

Bridging across the political aisle.

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Try to change the systems in place at the Federal Government!!

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Change "Agricultural" exemptions for burning to "Cultural" exemptions at CO state level.