Foundations of Cross-Boundary Cooperation: Resource Management at the Public–Private Interface

摘要: Cooperation across ownership boundaries is critical to most conservation efforts in mixed-ownership landscapes. Where owner objectives vary widely, as at public–private land boundaries, cooperation can be especially challenging. This research explores the opportunities and challenges for cooperative fire management among public private forest managers John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, an arid fire-dependent region dominated by large federal ownerships ranches. Data were derived from indepth interviews with managers, ranchers, industry representatives, environmental activists, community leaders, others. Through a process theoretical coding, five themes affecting cross-boundary identified: tenure, power, ideology, uncertainty, trust. These illuminate complexity involved cooperation.