Lake States natural resource managers’ perspectives on forest land parcelization and its implications for public land management

Natural resource managers need up-to-date information about how people interact with public lands and the meanings these places hold for use in planning and decision-making. This case study explains the use of public participatory Geographic Information System (GIS) to generate and analyze spatial patterns of the uses and values people hold for the Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado. Participants drew on maps and answered questions at both live community meetings and online sessions to develop a series of maps showing detailed responses to different types of resource uses and landscape values. Results can be disaggregated by interaction types, different meaningful values, respondent characteristics, seasonality, or frequency of visit. The study was a test for the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, who jointly manage the monument as they prepare their land management plan. If the information generated is as helpful throughout the entire planning process as initial responses seem, this protocol could become a component of the Bureau’s planning tool kit.

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Integration of Human/Social Dimensions into the Traditional European Model of Natural Resource Education and Management

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen ◽

10.3188/szf.2005.0264 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 156 (8) ◽

pp. 264-268

Author(s):

James J. Kennedy ◽

Niels Elers Koch

Keyword(s):

Natural Resources ◽

Natural Resource ◽

Life Forms ◽

Western World ◽

Social Dimensions ◽

Roles And Responsibilities ◽

Resource Managers ◽

Natural Resource Managers ◽

Rural Ecosystem ◽

Professional Roles And Responsibilities

The increasing diversity, complexity and dynamics of ecosystem values and uses over the last 50 years requires new ways for natural resource managers (foresters, wildlife biologists, etc.)to understand and relate to their professional roles and responsibilities in accommodating urban and rural ecosystem users, and managing the complimentary and conflicting interactions between them. Three stages in Western-world natural resources management are identified and analyzed, beginning with the (1) Traditional stage: natural resources first, foremost and forever, to (2) Transitional stage: natural resource management,for better or worse, involves people, to (3) Relationship stage: managing natural resources for valued people and ecosystem relationships. The impacts of these three perspectives on how natural resource managers view and respond to ecosystems,people and other life-forms is basic and can be profound.

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The Use of Citizen Science to Achieve Multivariate Management Goals on Public Lands

Diversity ◽

10.3390/d13070293 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 293

Author(s):

Sara Souther ◽

Vincent Randall ◽

Nanebah Lyndon

Keyword(s):

Citizen Science ◽

Land Management ◽

Ecological Integrity ◽

Public Land ◽

Suitable Habitat ◽

Science Data ◽

Public Land Management ◽

Federal Land ◽

Botanical Research ◽

Federal Land Management

Federal land management agencies in the US are tasked with maintaining the ecological integrity of over 2 million km2 of land for myriad public uses. Citizen science, operating at the nexus of science, education, and outreach, offers unique benefits to address socio-ecological questions and problems, and thus may offer novel opportunities to support the complex mission of public land managers. Here, we use a case study of an iNaturalist program, the Tribal Nations Botanical Research Collaborative (TNBRC), to examine the use of citizen science programs in public land management. The TNBRC collected 2030 observations of 34 plant species across the project area, while offering learning opportunities for participants. Using occurrence data, we examined observational trends through time and identified five species with 50 or fewer digital observations to investigate as species of possible conservation concern. We compared predictive outcomes of habitat suitability models built using citizen science data and Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data. Models exhibited high agreement, identifying the same underlying predictors of species occurrence and, 95% of the time, identifying the same pixels as suitable habitat. Actions such as staff training on data use and interpretation could enhance integration of citizen science in Federal land management.

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Weed hygiene practices in rural industries and public land management: Variable knowledge, patchy implementation, inconsistent coordination

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.06.017 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 223 ◽

pp. 140-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nicholas Gill ◽

Sonia Graham ◽

Rebecca Cross ◽

Eli Taylor

Keyword(s):

Land Management ◽

Public Land ◽

Public Land Management ◽

Hygiene Practices ◽

Rural Industries

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Public Land Movement in Nepal: Expanding Coverage and Diminishing Achievements

New Angle: Nepal journal of social science and public policy ◽

10.53037/na.v4i1.21 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 69-87

Author(s):

Mahendra Sapkota

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Land Management ◽

Land Rights ◽

Historical Background ◽

Public Land ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Development Discourse ◽

Research Gaps ◽

Public Land Management ◽

Challenges And Opportunities

In many countries of the developing world, the dominant development discourse is being contested by the emergence of different kinds of social movements and the land rights movements in agrarian socieites is not an exception. Despite having a long historical background, critics suggest that the land governance is largely based on state-centric epistemology and less on the pro-poor discourse of movement and struggle. Building on this critique, this paper highlights different issues, challenges and opportunities of the land-based movements particularly in context of western Tarai region of Nepal. The central proposition of the paper is that there are some significant implications and research gaps to be analyzed under the emerging discourse of “land movement” in Nepal. It therefore argues that ‘public land management’ and ‘public land movement’ are two mutually contested phenomena with contradicting actors, strategies, policy gaps, empirical dilemmas and shifting of power dynamics.

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