Editor's Note:
"This is the second in our series "Reaching Across Fences" - which examines the challenges and opportunities of cooperative management in the West. In this issue we examine the environmental benefits of collaboration. Over the past decade or so, there has been a rapid proliferation of collaborative efforts around the region. What have they achieved?"

Contents:

• "Collaboration in Our Backyard: Lessons from Community-Based Collaboration in the West" -Whitney Tilt
• "A View From Here" -Courtney White
• "Profile in Good Stewardship: Environmental Defense"
• "Restoring Comanche Creek" -Courtney White
• "The Lost Tribe" -Dan Dagget
• "The Far Horizon" -Courtney White