I M P L E M E N T A T I O N

1. Maryland Forest Resource Assessment & Strategies I M P L E M E N T A T I O N

2. A statewide forest assessment and strategies… …in two years. Yea, we can do that!

3. Forest Assessments… it’s a lot like Advanced Physics ALBERT EINSTEIN was teaching at Princeton University and had just administered an exam to an advanced class of physics students. On the way back to his office, the teaching assistant carrying the exams asked him, "Dr. Einstein, wasn't this the same exam that you gave to this same class last year?“ Dr. Einstein responded, "Yes, it was.“ The teaching assistant, in awe of perhaps the greatest physicist of the twentieth century, then asked, "Excuse me for asking, Dr. Einstein. But how could you give the same exam to the same class two years in a row?"

4. Forest Assessments… it’s a lot like Advanced Physics Einstein replied simply, "The answers have changed."

5. Issues: Managing The Impacts Of Changes In Land Use And Forest Ownership Enhancing Assistance To Private Forest Landowners Maintaining Forest-based Economy Minimizing The Threats Of Invasive Species, Pests And Pathogens To Maryland’s Forests Enhancing Urban Forests Conserving Biological Diversity Manage Recreational Use Conflicts In Public Forests Clean Air Clean Water Ecosystem Markets & Services/Climate Change Wildfires Previous Assessment & Strategy Efforts

6. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE • Be Proactive • Begin with the End in Mind • Put First Things First • Think Win/Win • Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood • Synergize • Sharpen the Saw

7. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Be Proactive: conscious choices based on values rather than a product of conditions based on feelings. • Attitude: be a leader in directing forestry issues/solutions • Promote change: funding sources need to align with Assessment & Strategy needs for priority areas • Not less “stove pipe” funding but more “leaky stove pipes”

8. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Begin with the End in Mind: begin with a clear understanding of the desired direction and destination. Be responsible for your direction or others and circumstances will shape your direction by default. • What does success look like? • Specific Action: consider the expansion of WebDET to monitor other metrics • Develop management plans accepted by NRCS, Tree Farm, State programs.

9. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Put First Things First: organizing and managing resources according to established priorities. • MFS 2.0 – realign state program delivery based on National & State themes. • Matching resources with priorities with integrated service delivery • reference Assessments and Strategies in annual consolidated grants • need to get new accomplishment reporting metrics to reflect Assessment & Strategies

10. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Put First Things First:organizing and managing resources according to established priorities. • Some actions we can do now, others will come later • Specific Action: refine priority areas to known & meaningful physiographic features

11. NATIONAL THEMEConserve Working Forests Priority Areas

12. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Think Win/Win: effectiveness is largely achieved through cooperative efforts. Based on an abundance mentality. • continue renewed dialog with partner and stakeholders (new organizations, new leadership) • improved collaboration with partners to accomplish parts of the strategy plan that we cannot do or could be done better by others (e.g. Information & Education)

13. Department of Natural Resources Department of the Environment Department of Agriculture Department of Planning Maryland Environmental Services University of Maryland Maryland Environmental Trust Maryland Association of Counties Maryland Municipal League Maryland Association of Forest Industries Maryland Forests Association Partnership for Sustainable Forestry Maryland Assoc. of Forest Conservancy District Boards MD/DE Society of American Foresters Maryland State Fireman’s Association Interstate Comm. on the Potomac River Basin US Forest Service US Fish & Wildlife Service Natural Resource Conservation Service EPA – Chesapeake Bay Program The Nature Conservancy The Conservation Fund Forest Resource Association Non-Profit Land Conservation Organizations Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Consulting & Industrial Foresters Forest landowners Forest Product Operators Tree Care Experts Stakeholder Outreach

14. The Survey Retention and Management of Private Forests Retention and Management of Public Forests Economic Viability of Forestry Industry in Maryland Maintaining Forest Diversity Value-Added Alternative Opportunities Within each issue area, the survey identified the top recommended actions. Survey participants were then asked to rank the importance of the recommendations based on the current economic, environmental, and political climate. Respondents were also given the opportunity to add additional recommendations. Listening Sessions June 08, 2009 – Bel Air, MD June 10, 2009 – Salisbury, MD June 15, 2009 – La Plata, MD June 16, 2009 – Urbana, MD June 17, 2009 – Frostburg, MD Approximately 45 – 55 people attended each session. The goal of the listening sessions was to more fully identify the problems that currently threaten Maryland forests and the kinds of technical support, educational opportunities, and cost share programs needed to help landowners manage their forest land and market forest products. Public Participation ProcessHarry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology

15. Forestry Summit • On October 5, 2009, a state-wide forestry summit was held in Linthicum, Maryland, with approximately 100 participants. • Over the course of the day, summit attendees: • reviewed the findings from the listening sessions, • considered the additional input from the issue experts, • discussed the issues in small group roundtable sessions, and • prioritized for their small group the list of actions that they felt would adequately address the identified forestry issues facing Maryland.

17. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood: communication is critical to learning other frames of reference and points of view. • continued communications with partners and stakeholders

18. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Synergize: creative cooperation or teamwork. People see the world not as it is, but as they are. • continue to coordinate with other resource management plans such as Wildlife Action Plans

19. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Synergize: creative cooperation or teamwork. People see the world not as it is, but as they are. • Specific: cooperative Multi-state projects. • Suggest USFS organized effort • Not impromptu sign on.

20. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Synergize: creative cooperation or teamwork. People see the world not as it is, but as they are. Examples: cooperative Multi-state projects. • Interstate-95 tangential land conservation • coordinated Rural Water Delivery • Tree Farm certified wood markets

21. Stephen Covey’s7 Habits of HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Sharpen the Saw: having a balanced, systematic approach to renewal. • More and better staff retreats • Deep breathing, relaxation techniques. • Attending & involvement with FRPC • Remember, the answers will change

22. On your mark…

23. A great big, Thank you. “We must be more than careful stewards of the land; we must be constant catalysts for positive change.” - Gifford Pinchot