For The Nature Conservancy to succeed in its mission, it is essential that we work with our partners, public and private, to achieve organizational goals. This is true at all scales and for all strategies, including fire management. An indication of the importance of collaboration is that the first step of the Conservation Action Planning process is Identify People Involved in your Project.

Fire management occurs on an increasingly complex landscape. The Conservancy rarely operates in isolation, even when burning on our own land. To be successful in achieving restoration of fire-dependent or fire-adapted ecosystems, we depend on partners. Planning is a good place to begin the collaborative process. Identifying common goals and developing a shared vision for a landscape at the start of a project should pave the way for achieving results in a timely way and avoid barriers to accomplishments.

The Fire Learning Network is a process designed to accelerate the planning and implementation of fuels treatments across large, complex landscapes. Collaboration is at the heart of the process, which is completed by multi-party, community-based teams. See U.S. Fire Learning Network for more information.

Last updated November 10, 2005