We propose to examine how community-level resource governance institutions affect the environmental orientations of individuals, their resource management activities, and the resulting environmental outcomes. Specifically, the research will use changes in local community environmental institutions in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh as the causal variable of interest. These new institutions were introduced as part of the Himachal Pradesh Ecodevelopment Project by the state government and the World Bank in 2006. Our research will attempt to explain how the implementation of and participation in these new institutions changed environmental attitudes and actions amongst villagers. Our research utilizes a multi-level quasi-experimental research design which compares pre- and post-treatment measurements of attitudes and actions between respondents in treatment villages (i.e., those that were part of the Ecodevelopment Project) and comparison villages. Our data will include surveys of villagers in treatment and comparison villages before and after program implementation, respondent characteristics such as their demographics and the precise geographic location of their households, and village characteristics such as population size, proximity to the forest, and forest conditions. We have already conducted the baseline surveys in early 2006, before the Ecodevelopment Project was implemented. We seek support to collect and analyze the second wave of data to measure post-treatment attitudes and actions. Together, these data will allow us to make powerful inferences about the extent to which new institutions caused attitudes and actions to change, and about what factors were most important in bringing about those changes.