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Project ID: 03-1-2-02

Year: 2003

Date Started: 07/29/2003

Date Completed: 09/02/2005

Title: Monitoring Trust as an Evaluation of the Success of Collaborative Planning in a Landscape-Level Fuel Hazard Reduction Treatment Project in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana

Project Proposal Abstract: This proposal is in response to the call for proposals of the Joint Fire Science Program, 2003-1 (Task 2), and it is coordinated with a new landscape-level project initiated by the Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project (BEMRP). BEMRP is directed by an interdisciplinaty team of Forest Service scientists, university faculty, and Bitterroot National Forest and Northern Region managers, planners and technology transfer specialists. This team is undertaking a long-term interdisciplinary project to collaborate with the public to select fuel hazard reduction treatments at the landscape-level on the Bitterroot National Forest. BEMRP is funding the baseline assessment of social meanings attached to the landscape, modeling of long- term effects of fire and fuel treatments on the landscape, and application of selected treatments. This proposal is for finiding to initiate a baseline measure of trust among residents and communities adjacent to the Forest, with emphasis on segmentation of the public based upon trust and other factors that influence the relationship between the public and public lands. During- and post-treatment repeat measures will serve as basic evaluations of the success of this interdisciplinary fuel treatment selection/collaborative planning project at the ecosystem level. Methods will include qualitative exploration of the influences on trust of the agency in the context of fuels management, and telephone interviews at the household level of community residents to provide generalizable tmst measures. The principal investigators are knowledgeable about trust measures and other factors that influence the relationship between the public and public lands and are closely tied to the larger landscape-level project coordinated by BEMRP

Principal Investigator: Alan E. Watson

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	William Borrie	University of Montana	Department of Forest Management
Co-Principal Investigator	Kari Gunderson	Forest Service	RMRS-Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project
Federal Cooperator	Alan E. Watson	Forest Service	RMRS-Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

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Northern Rockies

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

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