This Practical Guide is a companion to the video program Communication Strategies for Fire Management: Creating Effective Citizen-Agency Partnerships. The video is designed to assist land management personnel in working collaboratively with citizens for community fire and fuel reduction strategies. The DVD uses real world examples from successful agency communication programs to highlight effective approaches. It examines essential attributes for developing partnerships and offers a set of organizing principles to initiate an outreach strategy or to improve an existing one. This guide goes further by outlining important steps for implementation.
Shindler B, Gordon R. A Practical Guide To Citizen-Agency Partnerships: Public Outreach Strategies for Fire and Fuel Management. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University; 2005.