STEVEN E. DANIELS is Director of the Western Rural Development Center at Utah State University in Logan./e The WRDC is one of four regional centers for applied social science and community developments mission is to strengthen rural families, communities, and businesses by facilitating collaborative socio-economic research and extension through higher education institutions in the western region. Earlier, Professor Daniels was a faculty member in the Department of Forest Resources at Oregon State University.GREGG B. WALKER is Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech Communication, Adjunct Professor of Forest Resources, and Director of the Peace Studies program at Oregon State University in Corvallis./e In addition, Professor Walker conducts training programs on collaborative decision making, designs collaborative public participation processes, facilitates collaborative learning community workshops, and researches community-level collaboration efforts.

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