Pacific Northwest Research Station

Title: Place-based planning: innovations and applications from four western forests.

Author: Farnum, Jennifer O.; Kruger, Linda E., eds.

Date: 2008

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-741. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 44 p.

Station ID: GTR-PNW-741

Description: Place-based planning is an emergent method of public lands planning that aims to redefine the scale at which planning occurs, using place meanings and place values to guide planning processes. Despite the approach's growing popularity, there exist few published accounts of place-based approaches. To provide practitioners and researchers with such examples, the current compilation outlines the historical background, planning rationale, and public involvement processes from four National Forest System areas: The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in Montana; the Willamette National Forest in Oregon; the Chugach National Forest in Alaska; and the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests in Colorado. These examples include assessments of the successes and challenges encountered in each approach.

Keywords: Collaboration, forest planning, place attachment, place-based planning, public values, sense of place.

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Farnum, Jennifer O.; Kruger, Linda E., eds.  2008.  Place-based planning: innovations and applications from four western forests. .   Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-741. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 44 p..