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Supporting Personal Choices in Caring for the Land to Increase Fire Resilience and Awareness in Northern Minnesota

Producing a Professional Video to Engage Landowners in Fire-Focused Land Stewardship

Why this Project Matters

Fire is a necessary tool to manage northern Minnesota’s fire-adapted forests and mitigate the risk of devastating and dangerous wildfires. Private landowners have a critical role in acting as land stewards in reducing and mitigating these risks; those efforts begin with education about active forest management as a tool to create fire-resilient forests. As a response, the Arrowhead Fire Adapted Communities Program supports work in the region to make the communities in Northern Minnesota more aware and resilient to wildfire.

How This Project Will Help Reduce Wildfire Risk in Minnesota

This grant will be used to develop and promote a five-minute professional video to educate and empower landowners to engage in land stewardship that improves wildlife habitat, ecosystem biodiversity, wildfire resiliency, responsible timber harvesting, and recreational opportunities. The project will use events to engage public, private, and Tribal partners in Northern Minnesota that recognize cross-boundary landscape restoration can be accomplished only by collaborating. The project’s ultimate purpose is to strengthen collaboration for active forest management in the region.

The project will address the SFI 2022 Forest Management Standard requirements, including a focus on fire resilience and awareness, and the Minnesota SFI Implementation Committee playbook for implementation. The SFI 2022 Forest Management Standard Performance Measure 10.2 requires SFI‑certified organizations to engage (through an SFI Implementation Committee) in efforts to raise awareness of and take action to promote the benefits of fire management and the minimization of undesirable impacts of wildfire.

SFI’s Contribution

The SFI Community Grant Program and the Minnesota SFI Implementation Committee are supporting this project.

Partners

This partnership includes forestry professionals and an SFI-certified organization.

• Project lead: Dovetail Partners
• Sustainable Forestry Initiative
• Minnesota SFI Implementation Committee
• Minnesota DNR (SFI-certified organization)
• Fire Adapted Communities
• Minnesota Women’s Woodland Network

Related Information

Minnesota SFI Implementation Committee: Sustainable Forestry Initiative Video and Informational Kiosk at the Minnesota Historical Society’s Forestry History Center

Minnesota SFI Implementation Committee and Minnesota Forest Industries: Working with Youth to Provide Healthy Forest Bat Habitat in Minnesota Forests

Minnesota SFI Implementation Committee and Minnesota Forest Industries: Incorporating Tribal Values in Minnesota Project Learning Tree Curriculum

Connecting Students, Indigenous Knowledge, and Minnesota Forests

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Wildfire Prevention

About Dovetail Partners

Dovetail seeks to engage people in thoughtful, collaborative processes so that they can create an inspiring path forward and lead with confidence. Dovetail seeks to accomplish this by providing authoritative information about the impacts and trade-offs of environmental management, including consumption choices, land use decisions, and policy alternatives. Dovetail is a highly skilled team that fosters sustainability and responsible behaviors through collaboration to develop unique concepts, systems, models, and programs. Dovetail excels at solving complex problems and helping responsible organizations succeed. They also help define programs that increase the job creation and the job quality of resource-based industries. Dovetail Partners is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. Learn more.