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Stewardship Agreements/Contracts
What Stewardship Authority is…
• 10-year Authority through 30 Sep 2013
• USDA Forest Service and also BLM may enter
into Stewardship Projects through Agreements
or Contracts with private persons or
public/private entities
• To perform services to achieve land
management goals for eligible public lands
that meet local and rural community goals
Stewardship Program
MISSION:
• Create a new contracting method to
reduce costs and improve fiscal
responsibility.
• Improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of ecosystem restoration
in the National Forest System.
Why Stewardship Authority?
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Collaboration builds support
Exchange goods for services
Less contracting through bundling
More restoration with product value
Projects completed in less time
Why Stewardship Authority?
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Use retained receipts in other SA areas
Environmental impacts reduced
Cost/acre of service activities reduced
Provides benefits to local & rural
employment and communities
What’s in Stewardship for You?
• Increased collaboration
• Accomplish a variety of land
management goals
• New contract/agreement tools
• New source of project accomplishment
• Excess value can be used on other
Stewardship projects*
What Stewardship can do
• Healthy forests = healthy watersheds
• It is more cost effective to manage forests/
watersheds than to pay for fire suppression
regardless of what Congress anyone thinks
• It is safer to manage forests up front than to
put wildland fire fighter’s lives at risk later
• Healthy forests = increased economic activity
• And who doesn’t want more water in AZ?