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Welcome ! Working in Urbanizing Areas: Changing Roles for Natural Resource Professionals

Welcome ! Working in Urbanizing Areas: Changing Roles for Natural Resource Professionals. Nicole Wulff Changing Roles Program Training Coordinator US Forest Service. Raise your hand if you…. Are concerned about fragmentation of forests?

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Welcome ! Working in Urbanizing Areas: Changing Roles for Natural Resource Professionals

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  1. Welcome!Working in Urbanizing Areas: Changing Roles for Natural Resource Professionals Nicole Wulff Changing Roles Program Training Coordinator US Forest Service

  2. Raise your hand if you… • Are concerned about fragmentation of forests? • Are seeing different types of landowners moving out to more rural areas? • Are curious about trends in land-use change over time? • Are seeing urbanization growing into previously rural areas? • Are tired of landowners not listening to your advice? • Are interested in learning tips for managing conflict?

  3. Workshop Goal and ObjectivesWhy are we here? • At the end of today, you will be able to: • explain challenges, stakeholders, and issues in urbanizing areas and how they’re interrelated. • identify interface issues that are of the greatest concern to resource professionals in this region of OR

  4. Workshop Goal and ObjectivesWhy are we here? • At the end of today, you will be able to: • explain characteristics of Oregon landowners including their motivations for owning land and main concerns, as well as identify professional services and programs to meet their needs. • understand trends in land-use change on non-federal land in OR and • identify a few solutions to a local WUI issue For the fabulous prizes, of course!

  5. Keep in mind: At the end of the day today, I’m going to ask you: • What concepts/facts/ideas can you use in your work? • What concepts/facts/ideas will you share with others? • What remaining questions do you have?

  6. Agenda • Exercise- Icebreaker • Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Overview • Case Study • Break • Exercise- Prioritizing Interface Issues • Lunch

  7. Icebreaker 30 min.Piecing Connections Together • Each person take 2 puzzle pieces • Form a group with your tablemates • Find a partner within your group • In pairs, discuss how the topics on your puzzle pieces are related or connected • Share with the group

  8. Icebreaker • Place puzzle pieces on table for everyone to see • Discuss the connections between your puzzle pieces and the other pieces • Assemble puzzle • Available on-line: http://www.interfacesouth.org/products/pdf/mod1ex1.pdf

  9. Exercise 1.1: Discussion Questions • Who are the players in wildland-urban interface (WUI) issues? • Who can we work with to solve problems? • Can we manage interface resources differently to reduce problems?

  10. Terminology • Urban Wildland Interface • Wildland-Urban Interface • Rural Urban Interface • Rural Fringe • Exurbia • Peri-Urban Interface • Urban Sprawl, Rural Sprawl, Rural Clusters, Clustered Sprawl

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

  12. 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..

  13. Wildland-Urban Interface Continuum Isolated (2nd homes) Classic (competing land-uses) Intermix (changing land-use) Islands (surrounded by urban) More Wilderness More Urban

  14. Wildlife Wildlife

  15. Wildland Fire Wildland Fire

  16. Water Water

  17. Quality of Life Quality of Life

  18. WUI Challenges

  19. Traditional Forestry Urban Forestry Wildland-Urban Interface Solutions

  20. Case Study – Aerial Adventure Park

  21. Location: Rural Near Metro Area Special use in Exclusive Forest Conservation (EFC) 26 acre property Habitat and travel corridor for wintering elk and deer Smaller 2 acre forested area proposed for active adventure park, larger forested area for passive recreation Access road is a County 2-lane gravel road Residential dwelling, outbuilding Improvements: Welcome center Parking Storage facility for solid waste and recycling Structure for portable toilets Passive nature education trails, ziplines, cables, platforms, ropewalks, tunnels, nets, tethering of trees, climbing walls, swing bridges and steps

  22. Action at Tree-to-Tree

  23. Oregon’s Statewide Planning Goals and Guidelines • GOAL 4 Forest Lands OAR- 660-015-0000(4) USES Forest operations, practices and auxiliary uses shall be allowed on forest lands subject only to such regulation of uses as are found in ORS 527.722. Uses which may be allowed subject to standards set forth in this goal and administrative rule are: (1) uses related to and in support of forest operations; (2) uses to conserve soil, water and air quality, and to provide for fish and wildlife resources, agriculture and recreational opportunities appropriate in a forest environment; (3) locationally dependent uses; (4) dwellings authorized by law. • Type II Land Use Review

  24. Surrounding Properties • Site surrounded within .25 mile by a 16 properties that are mix of forested residential and commercial forest properties • Sizes range from 2-80 acres • Near Henry Hagg Lake, 1521 acre government owned water resource area • Stakeholders

  25. Issues Addressed in Development Review and Appeal • Wildlife Impacts • Increased traffic on rural road • Impacts on forest operations • Impacts of forest operations on adventure park • Fire hazard issues • Others?

  26. Case Study Analysis: • Discussion Questions • What are some unique challenges faced? What are other types of emerging recreational/tourist/other uses in forest areas? • How should natural resource professionals be involved in the issue? What role can we play? • What do natural resource professionals need to know or be able to do in order to effectively address the issue? • What would be additional challenges/issues if this property were closer to an urban area

  27. Break

  28. Prioritizing Interface Issues 30 min. • Objectives: • identify interface issues of importance in your state/region • prioritize the most important issues that will affect your work • Individually list the issues that need to be addressed in the wildland-urban interface area of your state. • Combine like issues at your tables. • We’ll create a final list. • Use sticky dots to prioritize. • Identify top issues and discuss.

  29. DiscussionPrioritizing Interface Issues • How would the priority issues change across the region/state? • Which issues are the consequences of other issues? • If one issue were resolved, which others would disappear? • What are some of the solutions to these interface issues?

  30. Exercise 2.1 30 min.Who Lives in the Interface? • Objective: Know the different landowner market segments which exist in the interface. • Reference Fact Sheet 2.1 • For your market segment answer the following questions: • What type of professional service and agency program would best serve your landowners? • How do you make these landowners aware of your services and programs? • Is this landowner worth your time or should you focus your scarce energies elsewhere? Why or why not? • Do you have similar interface residents or market segments in the area? • Do you need to revise your message reach this audience?

  31. DiscussionWho Lives in the Interface? • Describe your market segment and summarize your responses to these questions. • Which of the six market groups is most in need of natural resource advice? Why? • Which market segment would be the most difficult to advise? Why?

  32. Understanding Interface Landowners Nicole Wulff US Forest Service Changing Roles Training Coordinator Working in Urbanizing Areas

  33. Overview • Oregon forest ownership • Characteristics of family forest owners • Types of types of forest owners • Interface region characteristics

  34. Oregon Forest Ownership Oregon Facts and Figures 2011

  35. Who are Oregon’s family forest owners?

  36. Who are Oregon’s family forest owners? U.S. Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey,

  37. How much do they have?Oregon family forest holdings U.S. Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey

  38. Why do they own their land? Oregon family forest owner objectives • Privacy • To enjoy beauty or scenery • For land investment • Part of home or vacation home • To pass land on to children or other heirs U.S. Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey

  39. What are they concerned about?Oregon family forest owner major concerns • High property taxes • Misuse of forestland such as vandalism or dumping • Trespassing or poaching • Keeping land intact for heirs • Fire U.S. Forest Service, National Woodland Owner Survey

  40. Motivations of New Landowners

  41. Education and Information “What topics are of most interest to you?” Top 5 lists New Owners • Invasives • Reducing Fire Risk • Wildlife • Restoration • Reforestation Other Owners • Invasives • Estate Planning • Silviculture • Forest Health • Wildlife Source: OSU Extension Service, 2010

  42. Types of Forest Owners • “Timber managers” • Property as an investment, follow best management practices, well educated, also want to conserve resource base. • “Resident conservationists” • Preserving natural beauty, wildlife and natural values, own fewer acres, moderately educated • “Affluent weekenders” • Second homes on land, well educated, not interested in making money but are in amenities • “Low-income rural residents” • Inherited the land, less well educated, own smaller forests, sell timber but don’t manage, eager to use land to make money.

  43. Interface Region Forest Characteristics

  44. Tourist destinations (recreation, wine) Photo: kewing, flickr.com

  45. Retirement destinations Photo: camerasutra, flickr.com

  46. Trade and Professional Centers

  47. “Counterculture Opportunities”

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