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MITIGATING FOREST HEALTH IMAPCTS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS

MITIGATING FOREST HEALTH IMAPCTS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS. CHANGING ROLES. OUTLINE. Forest Health Definition Common Forest Health Threats Kentucky Forest Health Partnerships. DEFINITION. Forest health definition is variable Depends upon management objectives

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MITIGATING FOREST HEALTH IMAPCTS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS

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  1. MITIGATING FOREST HEALTH IMAPCTS THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS CHANGING ROLES

  2. OUTLINE • Forest Health Definition • Common Forest Health Threats • Kentucky Forest Health • Partnerships

  3. DEFINITION • Forest health definition is variable • Depends upon management objectives • Biodiversity, production, specific wildlife species • Several common factors regardless

  4. DEFINITION • Example definitions: • An ecosystem in balance • The ability of a forest to recover from natural and human stressors • A condition where biotic and abiotic influences on forests do not threaten management now and in the future

  5. DEFINITION • Most definitions fail to describe the variation in importance of definition components • Alternative definition: • The degree to which biotic and abiotic influences affect forest management • Make more specific according to how a forest is managed

  6. FH CHARACTERISTICS • Biodiversity • Sustainability • Ability to recover from stressors • Complexity

  7. DEFINITION • Understanding forest health is understanding ecology • Understanding what is in a forest • What forest components need to do well • The threats to forest components

  8. HEALTHY FOREST BENEFITS • Water quality • Reduced impact from wildfire • Recreation, Income • Everyone wants the benefits of trees

  9. These are all forest health issues

  10. COMMON FOREST HEALTH THREATS

  11. HABITAT LOSS • Conversion of forest to another use • Wide ranging effects: - forest health - water quality - wildlife

  12. HABITAT LOSS • Can lead to fragmentation: • Breaking of habitat into smaller pieces • - create a loss of connectivity • - reduce effective range of species • - increase area of interface for invasives

  13. FRAGMENTATION stress stress stress Increases where and how stress affects the forest stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress

  14. PESTS • Acute - impact very quickly • Very dynamic • Lack of resources & hard to keep up with • New pests lack good information emerald ash borer southern pine beetle

  15. DISEASE • Complex biology • Difficult to diagnose • Lack of good information • Fewer trained as forest pathologist compared to entomologist, botanist, etc. sudden oak death

  16. INVASIVE PLANTS • Chronic • Don’t appear as dynamic as insect • Get used to them, sometimes ignored • Seem overwhelming • Invasive plants currently in use tree of heaven kudzu

  17. TREND FOR BIOTICS MNGMNT • Most attention paid to insects • Little attention in planning for chronic vs acute effects • Perception of problem varies

  18. POLLUTION • Effects often chronic • Solutions require much collaboration and accomplished over extended periods of time • Air & water – exchanging effect • Direct impacts on multiple groups of organisms

  19. MANAGEMENT DECISIONS • Lack of knowledge • Understanding – planting one species in forest or urban areas • Available information • Lack of resources • Have to pick between needed actions

  20. KENTUCKY FOREST HEALTH

  21. EMERALD ASH BORER • Asian borer that only uses ash trees • Urban and forest pest • Multiple groups working together to understand this insect

  22. HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADLEGID • Slow decline of hemlocks • Urban and forest pest • Significant ecosystem threat

  23. Invasive plant data comes from too few sources

  24. Good information but sometimes only source

  25. Small change in field procedure may create additional data source

  26. CHALLENGES FOR MANAGEMENT • Not enough resources in forest situation • Lack of available information • Lack of education • Everyone can’t be an expert on everything • Impacts on nearby landowners • Risks can prevent management actions

  27. PARTNERSHIPS

  28. PARTNERSHIPS • FH should be a concern for any manager • Many of the same factors affect every forest • FH impacts are broad reaching • Good practices can be positive influences • One agency’s pest can spread to other agencies • A situation can lead to public support or wrath

  29. PARTNERSHIPS • Save Kentucky’s Hemlocks • Hemlock groups in other states • Multi-agency restoration projects • Collaborative land purchases

  30. PARTNERSHIPS • Kentucky Forest Health Task Force (FHTF) • Southern Group of State Foresters FHTF • Local collaboration

  31. TAKE HOME MESSAGE • Forest Health is everyone’s problem • Problem for forested and urban areas • Current and future impacts require collaboration to proceed successfully

  32. REFERENCES • Slide 4 - Edmonds, R.L., J.K. Agee and R.I. Gara. 2005. Forest Health and Protection. Waveland Press Inc. • Slides 14 & 21 - Fengyou Jia, DCNR PA, Bugwood.org • Slide 14 - Ronald F. Billings, TX Forest Service, Bugwood.org • Slide 15 - Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org • Slide 16 - Catherine Herms, OSU, Bugwood.org • Slide 16 - Kerry Britton, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org

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