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Assessing Collaborative Governance Outcomes and Indicators across Spatial and Temporal Scales: Stewardship Contract Implementation by the United States Forest Service

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Pages 484-503 | Received 28 Dec 2018, Accepted 20 Jul 2019, Published online: 30 Sep 2019

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