Final Ecosystem Goods and Services Scoping Tool Analysis of Beneficiaries and Environmental Attributes for the Tillamook River Wetlands Project
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Stakeholders may have different priorities regarding the purpose or goals for restoring specific sites (or areas), particularly regarding the benefits that the restoration might provide to them or the communities they represent. This technical report provides a structured decision-making approach using a multi decision criteria analysis methods guided by the FEGS Scoping Tool (FST) to incorporate the different priorities of stakeholders regarding the decision alternatives at the Tillamook River Wetlands restoration site. There are four steps to an analysis using FST: 1) articulating the relative influence of stakeholder prioritization decision criteria for decision makers, 2) assessing relative stakeholder prioritization based on those decision criteria, 3) building beneficiary profiles for each stakeholder group, and 4) finding the shared interests in environmental attributes based on what beneficiaries need or care for. Additionally, this report explores how the top priority environmental attributes translate to common interests amongst stakeholder groups. These priorities can be useful to build a set of shared goals around which to develop restoration project design and monitoring, build a stakeholder communication strategy, or be the basis for some other type of approach to incorporate stakeholder interests into the decision making and planning of the restoration site.