Document Type
Newsletter
Volume
10
Issue
1
Editor
Paul Rogers
Publisher
Western Aspen Alliance
Publication Date
2-2019
First Page
1
Last Page
4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
Staying Alive: Community and Quakies in Idaho
Jenny Gonyer
Toni Ruth
Aspen stands expand and contract, flourish, fade away, and rebound, and similarly so do collaborative working groups (a.k.a., collaboratives). In 2006, the Central Idaho Aspen Working Group (CIAWG) formed with the mission to promote and perpetuate diverse, sustainable aspen communities near Salmon, Idaho. Within a few years, the group entered into its own Lotka-Volterra model oscillations with momentum rising and falling with available funding sources, personnel, shovel-ready projects, and budgets. After momentum waned, we at Salmon Valley Stewardship (SVS) were asked to reconvene the group in 2016. SVS is a community-based conservation organization that acts as a convener around a host of social and environmental issues, bringing people together toward sustainable outcomes. In 2017, SVS brought agency partners, NGOs, and community aspen enthusiasts together to finalize the Aspen Group charter and host an aspen workshop addressing current aspen science with Drs. Paul Rogers of the WAA and Eva Strand from the University of Idaho.
Recommended Citation
Western Aspen Alliance, "Tremblings, February 2019" (2019). Tremblings. Paper 39.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/tremblings/39