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Lessons from Collaborative Planning on State Trust Lands

Author(s): Bertaina, Stephanie, et al.
Publication Date: September 2006

36 pages; Inventory ID WP06SB1; English; Paperback

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Abstract

Collaborative planning on state trust lands was identified for further research at the 2004 State Trust Lands Research and Policy Analysis Roundtable convened by the State Trust Lands Partnership project of the Sonoran Institute and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

In March 2005, under the guidance of Dr. Steven L. Yaffee, at team of eight graduate students from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment began conducting a region-wide survey and analysis of eight case studies in which state land trust agencies collaborated with stakeholders in trust land telephone interviews, each lasting roughly one to three hours. The team used these interviews to answer a set of research questions conce3rning the benefits, challenges, costs and outcomes of collaborative planning on state trust lands. The observations and best practices in this report grew out of stakeholder reflections and perceptions as well as the research team’s external analysis.