Prioritization of management units on a forest-wide scale can often be a challenging and daunting task for forest staff. In this research brief, Mike Caggiano outlines what PODs are, how to develop them, and how they can be utilized for landscape-scale collaborative forest management. Collaboration among multiple partners can be a useful tool to accomplish broad scale management activities in a wide range of landscapes.
Image Credit: C. O’Connor, Pods on the Tonto National Forest, AZ.