Blueprint

The Coalition has created a “blueprint” collaborative process designed to solve problems facing management of our Colville National Forest.  As part of this process it's forestry and conservation experts have crafted a collaborative forest management plan that has been presented to and reviewed by the public and US Forest Service.  During a Forest Service-led forest plan revision collaborative “Summit” workshop, held from March 2006 to January 2007, and attended by one commissioner each from Ferry, Stevens and Pend Oreille County and 80 individuals from across the region, the Coalition's proposal was presented and became the basis for determining land management allocations.  Summit participants endorsed the blueprint’s Active Management and Restoration areas and management principles, and agreed to support protecting “wilderness characteristics” of inventoried roadless areas (IRAs). 

The Colville National Forest made a commitment to their collaborative Summit participants to give significant weight to their desires to protect the wilderness characteristics of the IRAs. The Coalition decided to revise their management proposal to recommend all but two of the IRAs as wilderness.  This document was then submitted to the Forest Planning Revision Team. The Blueprint remains a working document using an adaptive approach whereby lessons learned are applied to future projects.

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