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Richard W. Haynes USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station

Indicator 46—Viability and Adaptability of Forest and Range Dependent Communities. Richard W. Haynes USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. Background. Intent deals with the relation of forest or range management and the well-being of communities

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Richard W. Haynes USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station

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  1. Indicator 46—Viability and Adaptability of Forest and Range Dependent Communities Richard W. HaynesUSDA Forest ServicePacific Northwest Research Station

  2. Background • Intent deals with the relation of forest or range management and the well-being of communities • Well-being reflects both jobs (economic well-being) and community attributes contributing to notions of community stability

  3. Developing a Measure • Measures of economic dependency on natural resources such as forests or rangeland • Social well-being of communities. • Capacity of communities to deal with change • Socioeconomic status of community members • Question of scale, National/Regional context set by the sustainable roundtable discussions

  4. Evolution of terms • Community stability • Forest/range dependence • Forest/range-based (or reliant) • Community capacity • Community resilience • Community viability and adaptability

  5. A Composite Measure • Population density • Proxy for lifestyle diversity • Minority status • National Forest acres • Economic diversity • Forestland acres • Cattle inventory

  6. Population and area by degree of adaptability and extent of forestland Low adaptability Medium and high adaptability

  7. Counties with low variability and adaptability to changing economic conditions-forestland

  8. Counties with low variability and adaptability to changing economic conditions-cattle

  9. Future Work • Need for refinement in the various proxies • How do we assess range reliance • Need to consider how to reframe the science/policy discussion in terms of the actual spatial hierarchy. • Need to develop comparable community data bases for social and economic conditions.

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