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Community-Based Forestry in the United States: Impacts, Success Keys, and Building Assets

Explore the impacts, success keys, and asset-building initiatives in community-based forestry in the US, focusing on diffusing conflict, restoration, public policy, infrastructure rebuilding, and rural capacity building. Learn how local leadership, investment, and supportive policies drive positive outcomes for communities.

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Community-Based Forestry in the United States: Impacts, Success Keys, and Building Assets

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  1. Community-Based Forestryin theUnited States a report from the U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities

  2. Community-Based Forestryin theUnited States Impacts of CBF

  3. Keys to Success

  4. Keys to Success • Local leadership • Mobilization of local resources • Investment • Assistance from intermediary organizations • Supportive public policies & programs

  5. Impacts:Diffusing Conflict

  6. Diffusing Conflict • Convening open, inclusive discussions • Increasing voice of local communities • Leveraging new resources for restoration

  7. Diffusing Conflict • Creating local business & job opportunities • Providing effective treatment for “analysis paralysis”

  8. Diffusing ConflictSustainable Northwest • Saw need for non-partisan problem-solver • Early project: facilitating community meetings in a town hit hard by declining timber harvests • Interest in listening, in “going deep & staying long” turned conversation to sustainability and capacity building

  9. Impacts:Restoration&Stewardship

  10. Restoration & Stewardship Restoring ecosystems • Damaged (e.g. from unsustainable harvesting ) • Neglected public assets (e.g. trail systems)

  11. Restoration & Stewardship Creating a culture of long-term stewardship • Management to reduce fire risk • Planting & restoration after fires • Habitat improvement • Models for good forest stewardship for private landowners

  12. Restoration & StewardshipThe Klamath Tribes CBF initiative: restorationas a key to • Community vitality • Economic self-sufficiency • Ecosystem improvement • Preservation of cultural identity

  13. Impacts:Public Policy

  14. Public Policy • Farm Bill’s new “Community Forest & Open Space Program” • Shift in Forest Service performance measures: outputs to outcomes • Stewardship contracting requires demonstration of community benefits

  15. Public Policy • Community wildfire protection plans provide local voice in fire planning • State & county development commissions investing more in smaller-scale, community-owned ventures

  16. Public PolicyRural Voices for Conservation Coalition • 60+ Western rural and local, regional, and national organizations • Goal: promote balanced, conservation-based approaches to ecological & economic problems • Common issues, shared voice & strength in numbers

  17. Impacts:Rebuilding Local Infrastructures

  18. CBF Infrastructure Is… • Local leadership • Mobilization of local resources • Investment • Assistance from intermediary organizations • Supportive public policies & programs

  19. CBF Infrastructure Is… • Leadership- and organizational development • Capacity for facilitation & conflict resolution • Capacity for facilitation & conflict resolution • Capacity for facilitation & conflict resolution • Project management capacity • Project management capacity

  20. Rebuilding Infrastructures • Restored access to national forests and public lands • Community acquisition of forestland in the East • Incubation of new products and businesses

  21. Rebuilding Infrastructures • Diverse streams of financing • Groundwork for tapping new markets like carbon credits

  22. Impacts:Building Assets in Rural Communities

  23. Building Assets • More access to &ownership of forestland • Expanded job training & job opportunities • New value streams • Increased social capital

  24. Building Assets Social capital= People are healthier, schools work better, kids learn faster, local government performs better, [there is less] crime, and…positive impacts on local business.” – Lew Feldstein, co-chair, Saguaro Seminar

  25. Building Assets Sustainable Woods • Links local landowners with professional foresters & ecologically sensitive loggers • Enhances forest health & provides good economic return.

  26. Impacts:BuildingRural Capacity

  27. Building Rural Capacity • Collaboration & expanded participation • Building new community institutions & leadership • Promoting education & training • Expanding access to financial & technical resources

  28. Building Rural CapacityColorado Front Range Roundtable • 10-county multi-stakeholder partnership focused on improving forest conditions & reducing wildfire risk • Launched groundbreaking regional community capacity-building project last year

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