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Measures and Metrics Work Group

Measures and Metrics Work Group. A workgroup of the Forest Stewardship Project Developing measures and metrics for The Forest Stewardship Program. Work Group Members. Gerald Andritz, New York Karen Bennett, chair, New Hampshire Brett Butler, Forest Service Karl R Dalla Rosa, Forest Service

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Measures and Metrics Work Group

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  1. Measures and MetricsWork Group A workgroup of the Forest Stewardship Project Developing measures and metrics for The Forest Stewardship Program

  2. Work Group Members Gerald Andritz, New York Karen Bennett, chair, New Hampshire Brett Butler, Forest ServiceKarl R Dalla Rosa, Forest Service Mike Huneke, Forest Service Morten Moesswilde, MainePaul Wright, consultant, Forest Service retired Jim Finley, PennsylvaniaBarbara Tormoehlen, Forest Service Sherri Wormstead, Forest Service Associates: Chuck Reger, Bob Fitzhenry, and Mark Buccowich, Forest Service

  3. What We’ve Done • Conference calls February 19, May 13, and June 9 • Open mic with CFM on May 12 • Developed a set of considerations to guide our product • Brainstormed measures and metrics • Currently compiling, summarizing, organizing • Next call scheduled June 29

  4. The Challenge and Opportunity • Take a fairly simple way of documenting program level of success---Forest Stewardship Plans and acres---- • For the states to document • For the Forest Service to group to show national program accomplishments • BUT one that doesn’t adequately show all our efforts and impacts • Create a system of measuring success that better reflects all our efforts and impacts • Likely more complicated for both the states and the Forest Service to track

  5. Purpose and Anticipated Products Develop Outcome Measures and Reporting Strategies that demonstrate the impact and influence resulting from the adoption of various approaches developed through the Stewardship Project.

  6. Those measures and reporting strategies should: • Demonstrate progress or trend change in keeping forests as forests (possibly by tracking “engagement”). • Make a connection between program-related influence and impact • Take into account and accommodate potential current or future regional differences in capacity, data, or other considerations. • Take into account the need to demonstrate influence and impact when landowners “touch” the land only periodically.

  7. The Work Group should: Consider approaches to monitoring and reporting that are not solely dependent on State Forestry Agency reporting. Consider what portion of trend change can be fairly attributed to Program efforts. Consider what value of spatially tracking landscape-scale approaches / acreage of approach and number of NIPF landowners reached by landscape scale approach might have. Coordinate with the WO to ensure alignment with national needs and budget structure.

  8. Considerations Include outcome measures as well as reporting strategies for a holistic approach Feasible—can be feasibly measured and compiled without long delays. Utilize data already being collected by reliable sources as much as possible (but be careful to not just measure what is measurable, rather than what is important) Minimize reporting burden on the States; consider approaches to monitoring and reporting that are not solely dependent on State Forestry Agency reporting

  9. Forest Conditions(baseline and trend) Forest inventory/FIA Habitat/wildlife conditions (Perhaps there are changes in the condition of wildlife habitat- improvements and degradations- being tracked as part of states Wildlife Action Plans). Hydrological data, water quality, watershed info Demographics (forests on the edge, fragmentation, av parcel size, etc.)

  10. Landowner Decisions, Involvement, Activity #/acres in Current Use tax #/acres permanently protected Participation in cost-share Participation in landowner groups Harvest activity (% who work with a forester, types of harvests) Forest stewardship plans, estate plans NWO survey Foresters per landowner

  11. Program Activity Service forester contacts and services to landowners Education and outreach effort Active program partners

  12. Social context/capacity Involved & active communities (tree cities, community plans addressing forestry, local regulations) Involved & active ngos, networks, related conservation effort

  13. Financial context/viability Markets for timber, non-timber, ecosystem services Land values, property taxation and current use rates Other ways to monetize ownership benefits

  14. Questions, Comments, Suggestions, ?????

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