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It provides a framework for cross-organizational teams to create landscape-scale conservation plans, emphasizing shared stewardship and adaptive program management. 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Actionable Area Planning Tool V2 May 2025.  \nThe Ohio Interagency Forestry Network Planning Working Group developed this tool as an additional “case study”  \nadding to the larger and more comprehensive Landscape Stewardship Guide developed by the Northeast-Midwest State Foresters Alliance and the Forest Service. The Planning Working Group will continue to refine the Actionable Area Planning Tool and can provide support on its application to other landscapes (visit the Joint Forestry Team Ohio Forestry Network page at: [https://www.jointforestryteam.com/](https://www.jointforestryteam.com/)[ ](https://www.jointforestryteam.com/)[resources/state-level-partnerships/ohio-mou/](resources/state-level-partnerships/ohio-mou/)) .  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY  \nAn actionable area is the optimal scale at which work can be organized to catalyze communitybased collective action. The Actionable Area Planning Tool provides a framework for crossorganizational teams to develop conservation plans at the landscape level (1 ,000s to 10 ,000s of acres) . Building upon the Ohio Interagency Forestry Network's experience, the tool emphasizes shared stewardship and adaptive management.  \nThis tool outlines key elements for actionable area planning, starting with articulating project intent, defining the geographic area, identifying core focus areas, fostering cross-boundary management,  \nand creating a portfolio of coordinated services. Further elements include workflow assessment, landowner engagement strategies, outcome identification, communication management, and developing landscape-scale conservation strategies. The tool concludes with transitioning from planning to implementation, emphasizing risk management and collective impact principles.  \nLandscapes are geographic areas large enough to contribute to conservation outcomes and small enough to be able to achieve implementation progress. Defining landscape boundaries depends on the systems and species that occur and how they function at one or more spatial levels. A landscape can be millions of acres, but an “actionable area” is more practical when organizing a communitybased conservation effort. Like landscapes, actionable areas are large enough to achieve ecosystem level outcomes but are organized atthe county and local administrative levels.  \nAn actionable area is  \nthe optimal scale at which work can be organized to catalyze community-based collective action.  \nThis planning tool is designed for application atthe landscape level (1 ,000s to 10 ,000s of acres) and is based on the approaches and lessons learned by the Ohio Interagency Forestry Network while developing the Hocking Plateau Shared Stewardship Project.  \nThis tool is meant to help cross-organization teams complete a plan, including identifying a portfolio of programs and projects.  \n2  \nAPPROACH TO ACTIONABLE AREA PLANNING  \nThe lens of shared stewardship – doing the right work, in the right place, and at the right scale – is the way we do our work. The USDA Forest Service defines shared stewardship as a collaborative approach to land management that builds on a long history of partnerships. Adaptive program management is the process for how we organize and coordinate our work.  \nThe adaptive management planning cycle has no fixed endpoint ( Figure 1) . This cycle is a feedback loop where conditions are inventoried, problems identified, goals and objectives created, alternative implementation activities developed and selected, data collected to monitor conditions and evaluate progress, and implementation adjusted based upon what monitoring reveals. Within a program of work, multiple activities within the cycle can be happening concurrently. Monitoring is key – without gathering the appropriate data at the beginning of and throughout the planning and implementation process it is impossible to unde","cbCaiuNH8Z8jw2Mw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuNH8Z8jw2Mw","pdf",16784733,"English","# About this Tool\n## Executive Summary\n# Approach to Actionable Area Planning\n## Elements of Actionable Area Planning\n## Element A: Get it in Writing","[{\"question\":\"What is an actionable area in this planning tool?\",\"answer\":\"An actionable area is the optimal scale at which work can be organized to catalyze community-based collective action, balancing landscape capacity with practical implementation at local administrative levels.\"},{\"question\":\"How does adaptive program management work in the tool?\",\"answer\":\"It uses an adaptive management planning cycle as a feedback loop: inventory conditions, identify problems, set goals, develop and select implementation alternatives, collect data to monitor and evaluate progress, and adjust implementation based on monitoring results.\"},{\"question\":\"What key elements does the tool recommend for actionable area planning?\",\"answer\":\"It outlines a sequenced set of elements including clarifying project intent, defining the actionable area geographically, identifying core focus areas, enabling cross-boundary management, building a coordinated services portfolio, mapping workflows, engaging landowners, setting success outcomes and indicators, managing communications, and developing landscape-scale strategies before transitioning to implementation.\"}]","Actionable Area Planning Tool - About This Tool - Executive Summary | PDF",1790111572,6]