This page lists who is researching, practicing, and assisting in work related to community-ecosystem stewardship. 

Who is Doing Stewardship Research and Providing Assistance?

Institute for Environmental Negotiation (University of Virginia)

The Long Term Ecological Research Network

Second Nature, Education for Sustainability

Office of Community Services - This community study and assistance program at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado assists rural communities, state and federal agencies, and non-profit organizations by facilitating and coordinating projects in planning, historic preservation, community-public land policy and stewardship, and human services.

Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy (University of Arizona) - The Udall Center facilitates, analyzes, and provides options for solving issues related to American Indian policy, environmental conflict and policy in the Southwest, and the U.S.-Mexico Border.

The Natural Resources Law Center (University of Colorado) — This non-profit research and educational organization is committed to improving the governance and management of water and land resources in the western United States.

The Institute for Environment and Natural Resources (University of Wyoming) — This partnership among more than 200 research faculty, environment and natural resources leaders, and the University of Wyoming advances effective, collaborative decision-making on environmental and natural resource issues.

The Sonoran Institute — The Institute was established to fill a need in conservation movement for strategies that address both environmental issues and community concerns. Its Website's "Main Street" on its Community Stewardship Exchange page is inviting.

Ecotrust — Patterns of Conservation Economy is a Website hosted by Ecotrust that seeks to understand the patterns which organize a conservation economy that is restorative. The site is offered to individuals, businesses, and communities as a framework for sustainability.

The Mountain Institute combines community economic development with biodiversity and resource conservation in its projects. It's Community-Based Tourism for Conservation and Development: A Resource Kit is a useful resource to stewardship efforts. 

The Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming bring together people from many backgrounds, from all over the world for dialogue and collaborative projects.

Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute founded in 1968 to stimulate and support excellent social science research on significant public policy issues and to disseminate the findings. Links to working papers are provided in several topics, some of which should interest those involved in stewardship.

Community Forestry Organizations

The Diablo Trust  The Diablo Trust is a collaborative group of ranchers, environmentalists, agency representatives, educators, community leaders, and others who for the last five years have been managing approximately 400,000 acres of Forest and High Desert land located about 30 miles east of Flagstaff, Arizona on the Flying M and Bar T Bar Ranches.

National Network of Forest Practitioners

The Forest Trust

The Four Corners Sustainable Forests Partnership

The Community Forestry Resource Center

Forest Community Research

The Sustainable Forestry Partnership

Participatory Action Network

Alliance for National Renewal

Applegate Watershed Partnership is a community-based project involving industry, conservation groups, natural resource agencies, and residents cooperating to encourage and facilitate the use of natural resource principles that promote ecosystem health and diversity.

Collaborative Learning Circle is made up of 17 community development and sustainable resource management organizations from Northern California and Southern Oregon experimenting in collaboratively implementing ecologically sound, community-based redevelopment strategies.

A Project to Develop Best Practices Guidance for Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Management

The National Audubon Society (NAS), The Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Institute for Environmental Negotiation (IEN) of the University of Virginia are coordinating a project to develop guidance for environmental advocates who may consider convening or participating in collaborative processes to address natural resource issues.

Government Agencies Involved in Community-Public Land Stewardship

USDA Forest Service Rural Community Assistance Program helps rural communities to build skills, networks, and strategies to address social, environmental and economic changes.

The Rural Development Partnership works to strengthen rural America through collaborative partnerships by bringing together partners from local, state, tribal, and federal governments, as well as from the for-profit and nonprofit private sector.

Western Community Stewardship Forum — The National Association of Counties and the Sonoran Institute have created this partnership to address the increasing need for innovative community-driven solutions to land-use issues. It provides training and technical assistance to county officials in the use of information, tools, and strategies to address community stewardship goals.

Colorado Regional Resource Coordinating Committee - The RRCC is a collaborative effort in southwest Colorado of nine regional providers of community and economic services for various community and public land needs.

Foundations

The Ford Foundation - The Ford Foundation's website contains links to programs, including Education, Media, Arts & Culture; Assets Building & Community Development; Peace and Social Justice. Its publications page lists links to its Annual Report, Quarterly Magazine, recent publications and a catalog for ordering. 

International Organizations

Southwestern Ontario Land Stewardship Demonstration Areas Catalogue is an innovative project of the Ontario Stewardship Program which documents practices that improve resource and land management.

Canadian Policy Research Center

International Model Forest Network works to foster cooperation and collaboration in the advancement of management, conservation and sustainable development of forest resources, through a world-wide network of working model forests.

Other Unique Sites of Interest

Community University Research Consortium for Regional Environmental Justice

Sustainable Measures develops indicators that measure progress toward a sustainable economy, society, and environment.

The Stewardship Community — Located in Loveland Colorado, the Stewardship Community's offers examples of appropriate land stewardship to create a urban and rural food economy based on health and social responsibility.

Papers, Lectures, Etc.

2000 S. J. Hall Lecture: Collaborative Stewardship: A New Environmental Ethic for the West, Mark Rey (The S. J. Hall Lectureship In Industrial Forestry, October 13, 2000, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Forestry, College of Natural Resources).