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Founded in 1996, the Community Forestry & Environmental Research Partnerships program supports collaborative research on natural resource management with communities in the United States. It is our belief that for natural resource management to succeed, policies, procedures and organizations need to be sensitive to local social and cultural realities and to achieve this, ideas, knowledge and scientific data needs to be shared among communities, scholars and natural resources professionals. The mission of the CFRF Program is to nurture a new generation of scholars and university-community partnerships to build community capacity and stewardship of natural resources. The primary purpose of the fellowship is to enable graduates students and communities to work on participatory, community-based research that promotes mutual learning and advances the conditions and practices that support sustainable natural resource management, capacity building, viable local economies and more democratic decision making.