 Snep Assignment PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
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Reviews.
Key contacts and place-based groups also participated in a focused review of SNEP
assessment reports in late summer of 1995. Draft assessments were subjected to blind
peer reviews and were simultaneously sent to key contacts and place-based groups,
on request, for their review and comment. Key contacts and place-based groups asked to coordinate
public review of these drafts and were permitted to circulate the draft subproject
reports to whomever they chose. In order to limit the number of separate comments on each report, the key contacts and place-based groups were responsible for summarizing
responses and returning them to the team within the same time period given to peer
reviewers. In a process similar to a formal peer review, team scientists used comments received from the key contacts and place-based groups to inform subsequent revision
of subproject reports. Interestingly, though there were extensive requests for individual
reports by key contacts and place-based groups, there were only a limited number of reviews returned to the team.
Other Interactions.
The formal public involvement strategy just detailed was supplemented by a variety
of other interactions between individual scientists on the SNEP team and the public.
Interactions were often intended to either inform the public of SNEP or gather specialized knowledge, but they often accomplished both. These included meetings with agencies,
private industry, county supervisors, and interest groups, a series of workshops
with local experts to assess community capacity and well-being, and other workshops
to identify and map late successional forest types. 
 
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