Nicole Wulff Changing Roles Training Coordinator

2. Welcome! Tennessee Land-Use Planning Partnership Nicole Wulff Changing Roles Training Coordinator InterfaceSouth- U.S. Forest Servicenmwulff@fs.fed.us (352) 378-2451 www.interfacesouth.org/changingroles

3. ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?

4. Raise your hand if you are interested in… • Effective stormwater management • Preserving biodiversity and wildlife habitat • Additional recreation area • Improved human health and quality of life • Conserving farms and forests that contribute to the economy • Increased land values

5. Workshop ObjectivesWhy are we here? • At the end of today, we will: • Understand issues and challenges faced in urbanizing areas. • Understand the necessity of professionals from an array of disciplines working together to create sustainable communities. • Be aware of resources that can be used to guide the consideration of natural resources in land-use decision making. • Understand the role that natural resource professionals can play in providing technical assistance. For the fabulous prizes, of course!

6. Workshop Deliverables • A logic model to identify outcomes, outputs, and inputs to address challenge of incorporating natural resources into land-use planning. • A list of strategies to address gaps in interaction between land-use planning and natural resource professionals

7. Outline • Natural resources at different scales • Benefits of considering natural resources • Overview of the wildland-urban interface • Changing Roles program as a potential strategy • Why the CR program was developed

8. Natural Resources and Land-use Planning • What’s going on at different scales? • site, metropolitan, state, region?

9. Consideration of natural resources @ the site scale

10. Consideration of natural resources @ the metropolitan scale NASHVILLE: NATURALLY Creating, Enhancing, and Preserving Places That Matter

11. Consideration of natural resources @ the statescale

12. Consideration of natural resources @ the regionalscale

13. Natural Resources and Land-use Planning • What are some of the benefits of including natural resources in land-use planning?

14. Including Natural Resourcescan have economic benefits • Examples of the Value of Natural Systems and Other Open Spaces • Functioning Natural Systems • Working Lands • Nature – Based Tourism / Recreation • Real Estate • Human Health • Quality of Life

15. Including Natural Resourceshas ecologic benefits • Natural ecosystem values and functions • Carbon sequestration, climate regulation • Energy conservation • Soil conservation and generation • Storing and cycling nutrients • Filtering and cooling water • Wildlife habitat • Maintaining biodiversity

16. Including Natural Resourcescan have social benefits • Benefits to human populations • Recreation and scenery • Human health • Pollinating crops and other plants • Providing forest products, fish and game for human consumption • Hazard mitigation, flood control

17. With Economic, Ecologic, and Social Benefits… It’s win, win, win!

18. Where can land-use planning and decision-making have positive impacts when natural resources are considered? The wildland-urban interface

19. The Wildland-Urban Interface.. Where people who live in the city go to feel like they are in the country, and where people who live in the country go to feel like they are in the city. - Jim Hull

20. Royal Cluster Terminology • Urban Wildland Interface • Wildland-Urban Interface • Rural Urban Interface • Rural Fringe • Exurbia • Peri-Urban Interface • Urban Sprawl, Rural Sprawl, Rural Clusters, Clustered Sprawl

21. Which of these photos depicts the wildland-urban interface? Wildland-Urban Interface Continuum From a spatial perspective… “All of the above” Isolated (2nd homes) Classic (competing land-uses) Intermix (changing land-use) Islands (surrounded by urban) More Wilderness More Urban

22. The WUI from a resource management perspective.. ..the WUI is an area where increased human influence and land conversion are changing natural resource goods, services, and management.

24. Where is the WUI?

25. When I say “wildland-urban interface” what comes to your mind?

26. WUI Issues

28. New tactics Shhh… Zog, Here come one now. The Far Side

29. Partners and Cooperators Virginia Tech, Auburn University, NC State, Southern Regional Extension Forestry

30. Training The Far Side

31. At InterfaceSouth… • We support and conduct research, disseminate new and existing information, serve as a clearinghouse of WUI information, build partnerships and collaborative efforts and approaches, and facilitate and create links to and between other organizations. • Changing Roles is one IS program

32. InterfaceSouth… • …and Urban Forestry South make up the Centers for Urban and Interface Forestry • Unit 4952 of the Southern Research Station of the • Forest Service • US Department of Agriculture

33. Outline • Natural resources at different scales • Benefits of considering natural resources • Overview of the wildland-urban interface • Changing Roles program as a potential strategy • Why the CR program was developed

34. Workshop ObjectivesWhy are we here? • At the end of today, we will: • Understand issues and challenges faced in urbanizing areas. • Understand the necessity of professionals from an array of disciplines working together to create sustainable communities. • Be aware of resources that can be used to guide the consideration of natural resources in land-use decision making. • Understand the role that natural resource professionals can play in providing technical assistance.

35. To learn more: Nicole Wulff Changing Roles Training Coordinator U.S. Forest Service – InterfaceSouth nmwulff@fs.fed.us (352) 378-2451 www.interfacesouth.org/changingroles

36. Outline • What the program is and how it works • What is up next

37. The WUI from a resource management perspective.. • We need: • new skills and approaches to better understand and effectively work in the interface. ..the WUI is an area where increased human influence and land conversion are changing natural resource goods, services, and management therefore..

38. New tactics Shhh… Zog, Here come one now. The Far Side

39. Partners and Cooperators Virginia Tech, Auburn University, NC State, Southern Regional Extension Forestry

40. Training The Far Side

41. Module Topics 1: WUI Issues and Connections 2: Managing Interface Forests 3: Land-Use Planning and Policy 4: Communicating with Interface Residents and Leaders

42. New Module 5: Emerging Issues • Land-use planning at multiple scales • An ecosystem goods and services approach • Climate change • Small-scale forestry • Ecological restoration • Social responsibility

43. Who me? Be a community resource? YES! YOU! • Natural resource professionals have knowledge, experience, and skills that are valuable in land-use decision making. • Using the best available science, they can help decision makers and landowners evaluate risks and benefits (for both the natural resource and the community) associated with land-use change in the WUI. • Offer services, attend meetings, speak to local groups, write letters to editor, etc.

44. Module Contents Trainer’s Guide Exercises Fact Sheets Presentations

45. Additional Materials • Listserve • Case studies • Resource list • Evaluation resources • Trainer’s CD

46. Additional Materials

47. Changing Roles Listserve Changing Roles Notebook Changing Roles Update Information Handout Related Resources Trainer’s Corner Changing Roles section of InterfaceSouth webpage

49. How have materials been used? • 1-2 day in-service training • Session in conjunction with an annual meeting • Breakout session in an agency annual training • Teleconference/webinar • Texas Forest Expo • Integrated with Firewise field days • Integrated with Green Infrastructure training • Integrated with leadership training • Integrated in undergraduate forestry courses • Emerging Communities Competitive Grant

50. Train-the-TrainerWorkshop Lake Conroe, TX April 23-25, 2009 Over 50 participants, 10 states 2 tracks TFS, USFS, TPWD