The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Mississippi State University (MSU) Extension, and the Mississippi Forestry Commission partnered on the Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Project, a collaboration on forest health. MSU Extension provided educational outreach to a wide audience of forest landowners and screened applications for the project\u27s tree-thinning cost-share program. From 2006 to 2016, the collaboration spent 4.5milliononeducationaloutreachandcostsharing.UsingIMPLAN,weestimatedtheproject2˘7seconomiccontributiontothestateat60.2 million, a value representing a benefit–cost ratio of 13:1. Collaboration is an effective means for agencies to leverage resources, and impact analysis is a useful tool for evaluating Extension program effectiveness