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Current and Future Roles of the USFS from a State Perspective

Current and Future Roles of the USFS from a State Perspective. Bill Stewart CDF Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP). Guiding management philosophies of USFS, Congress, and the Public. Organic Act Weeks Act Multiple Use Public Use “My backyard” syndrome

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Current and Future Roles of the USFS from a State Perspective

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  1. Current and Future Roles of the USFS from a State Perspective Bill Stewart CDF Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP)

  2. Guiding management philosophies of USFS, Congress, and the Public • Organic Act • Weeks Act • Multiple Use • Public Use • “My backyard” syndrome • Forest and Range Sustainability

  3. Three different roles of the USFS in California • National Forests • Research Organization • Financial support for state and private forestry

  4. A Californian’s perspectives • As forest, shrub, and woodland habitats • As examples of land use zoning • As timberlands • As key watersheds • As burnable landscapes • As recreational lands • As examples of sustainable forests

  5. By Management Class 19% Reserve 67% Working 11% Irrigated 3% Urban

  6. National Forests as part of a timber production system

  7. LandUses in Shared Watersheds 100 90 80 Reserve 70 Working/Public 60 Working/Private 50 Area ofManagement Rural Residential Landscape class (%) 40 Agriculture 30 Urban 20 10 0 Pit Eel Kern New Trinity Mojave Salinas Owens American Santa Ana Los Angeles San Luis Rey River basin

  8. USFS is one of the many owners of flammable California Fire threat

  9. USFS role in reducing the negative impacts of large, damaging fires

  10. Prescribed Burn in the Santa Ana Watershed

  11. USFS as a neighbor to communities and metropolitan areas

  12. USFS as the #1 provider of outdoor recreational opportunities

  13. Intensity of recreational use on National Forests

  14. Sustainable Forestry and the USFSAs citizens: • We are consumers of forest commodities and ecosystem services • We oversee the stewards of the landscape • We need to consider the multiple facets of forests– economic, environmental, and social

  15. Potential analogs for the USFS in the 21st Century • One ownership, one uniform plan • Managers of a balanced portfolio like a good retirement plan • A big piece of a global approach to sustainable forestry

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