Partnerships for the Deferred Maintenance of Forest Roads

1. Partnerships for the Deferred Maintenance of Forest Roads Volunteers US BORDER PATROL Stewardship Contracts STATE PARKS NATIONAL GUARD Boy Scouts of America CORRECTIONAL CAMPS Publishing 20 case studies of “success stories” to help FS Road Managers develop partnerships Private Companies Before and After

2. Project Summary Goal is to: -Publish road maintenance partnership list, and -Help forests develop these kind of partnerships Created a questionnaire and issued it to forests Conducted telephone campaign to interview forests Selected non-traditional partnership stories for “case studies” to be published We wrote 20 stories to be published on website

3. Forest Service Roads: Deferred Maintenance The Forest Service (FS) is experiencing an unprecedented level of Deferred Maintenance. The FS total, agency wide is projected at $ 5.7 billion with Roads making up a majority of this amount, at $ 4.15 billion. (ref: FY09 Budget Justification – USDA Forest Service, page15-20)

4. Partnerships Our project is to develop and compile opportunities and resources for engineers and forests to leverage their funding

5. San Bernandino OHV Clubs Border Patrol Arizona Game and Fish Depatment Salmon Public Private Coalition State Conservation District Grand Canyon Wildlanos Council Private Paving Co. Tribal Restoration Coalition Success Stories Boys Scouts Watershed Coalition Correction Camps Handgliders Association Power Company Stewardship Contracting National Guard 20 success stories from FS engineers Post on the internet Email web-blast Containing enough info to start own partnership

6. Collaboration • FS Grant Strategist Enterprise Unit -Elizabeth Carroll, Unit Leader • The National Partnership Office, WO NPO -Jan Engert, Director -Andrea Bedell-Loucks, Partnership Coordinator • WO engineering • Creative writer/editor/interviewer - Shelley Kirk-Rudeen • Sam Wu’s survey team

7. The Plan Find Write Publish case studies of success stories

8. Fact Finding • We sent out an e-mail questionnaire • We received 44 • e-mail responses, which automatically populated our database • Mostly “traditional” type partnerships

9. More Fact FindingRegrouping to find more Non-Traditional Road Partnerships • We developed a new set of contacts to interview • Forest Engineers • Road Managers • Partnership Coordinators • Volunteer Coordinators • And others involved this kind of partnering • 17 grew to a total of 56 contacts

10. Selected Case Studies We selected the potential case studies We re-interviewed the contacts and worked with them to create a case study story ready for publication These are the selected case studies

11. Writing the Case Studies We developed a template of information required on each case study We interviewed each selected contact We wrote the case study and had each interviewed contact review, comment and have final say on the story. We ensured their consent and approval before publication Here is an example of one of the stories

12. Publishing the Story We plan on publishing the stories on this page in association with a partnership the NPO has with the Forest Foundation The NPO is facilitating getting a story of our project on the FS Today We plan on using the NPO partnership network

13. Success Already 3 stories have shown the power and genius of success stories being used as the first step to partnershipping. National Guard Olympic National Forest R6 Clearwater & Nez Perce

14. Story Lead-ins Story in FS Today Feature on NPO website