Adaptive Forest Management

In 2004 we were chosen by the Washington-based NCSSF (National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry) to study the factors that enable successful adaptive forest management (AM) and how these factors might vary across organizations and at different scales. We gleaned insights from each of 20 leaders representing the private, public and NGO sectors; distributed across nine states and two provinces and with projects that ranged from plot to watershed scales and with budgets up to seven million dollars.