A United States View on Changes in Land Use and Land Values Affecting Sustainable Forest Management

Many of the plants and fungi that are harvested for nontimber products (e.g., foods, medicines, crafts) are critical to healthy forest ecosystems. These products also are essential to rural societies, contributing to the material and nonmaterial composition of communities and cultures. Product sales make important contributions at all economic scales, from household to national economies. Nontimber forest products (NTFPs) have been harvested for generations, sometimes centuries, yet they are seldom integrated into forest management. Few methods exist for inventory and assessment, and there is little evidence that harvests are sustainable. This article examines three elements of sustainable forest management for nontimber products: sociocultural, economic, and ecological, and elaborates with detailed examples of edible and medicinal species from United States (U.S.) forests. We synthesize the state of knowledge and emerging issues, and identify research priorities that are needed to advance sustainable management of NTFPs in the United States. Despite their social, economic, and ecological values, many of these species and resources are threatened by the overuse and lack of management and market integration. Sustainable management for nontimber products is attainable, but much research and development is needed to ensure the long-term sustainability of these resources and their cultural values, and to realize their economic potentials.

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Attitudes toward Policy Instruments Promoting Wood-To-Energy Initiatives in the United States

Southern Journal of Applied Forestry ◽

10.1093/sjaf/35.2.73 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 73-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Francisco X. Aguilar ◽

Adam M. Saunders

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Forest Management ◽

Energy Policy ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

Tax Incentives ◽

The United States ◽

Forest Sector ◽

Policy Tools ◽

Us South

Abstract An array of policy instruments has been adopted across the United States in an effort to promote greater wood-to-energy uses. This research elicited attitudes toward wood-to-energy policy instruments among forest sector stakeholders to identify the most preferred policy tools. Test statistics identified differences between perceptions from US South and non-US South respondents regarding the capacity of tax incentives; subsidies and grants; rules and regulations; education; and consultation to meet policy ecological, economic, social, and political criteria. Examples of particular instruments adopted by various states were used to evaluate their capacity in addressing specific energy, forest management, and market dimensions of wood-to-energy policy. Results suggest preference for the implementation of education programs and the adoption of tax incentive instruments, followed by rules and regulations. US South respondents have less favorable views of subsidies and grants and rules and regulations than respondents from the rest of the country to meet policy evaluation criteria. Based on the analysis of state-specific policy tools, tax incentives were deemed the best positioned to generate more renewable energy from woody feedstocks and education and consultation were the best suited to meet energy and sustainable forest management objectives. A combination of approaches will be the most adequate to meet multiple policy criteria.

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Traditional land use and occupancy studies and their impact on forest planning and management in Alberta

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc73596-5 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 73 (5) ◽

pp. 596-605 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

M. P. Robinson ◽

M. M. Ross

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Forest Management ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Environmental Knowledge ◽

Forest Planning ◽

Traditional Environmental Knowledge ◽

Planning And Management ◽

Forest Planning And Management ◽

Traditional Land Use

Canada is an international leader in the methodology of traditional land use and occupancy mapping as a result of the negotiation process for settling comprehensive land claims in the North. Since the early 1980s this methodology has found increasing application in the Canadian mid-North, especially in the context of forest planning and management in the northern Alberta Forest Management Agreement (FMA) areas. The goals of traditional land use and occupancy mapping in these FMAs include collection and preservation of traditional environmental knowledge, integration of this knowledge into forest planning and management and, for the Aboriginal communities, active participation in decision-making processes in order to attain sustainable forest management. While the first goal is often met in mapping projects, goals two and three are proving harder to achieve because of conflicting government policy agendas, differing paradigms of community development in society at large, and the lack of recognition and legal protection for Treaty and Aboriginal rights. Key words: traditional land use and occupancy studies, traditional environmental knowledge, bush economy, co-management

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Method for determining the optimum land use

Voronezh Scientific-Technical Bulletin ◽

10.12737/14025 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 126-130

Author(s):

Сушков ◽

Oleg Sushkov

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Forest Management ◽

Forest Ecosystems ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Environmental Consequences

The article describes the approach to determining the size of the forecast of forest management in the development of forest bases tenants based on sustainable forest management. The approach to determine the environmental consequences of the intervention in forest ecosystems.

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Mapping of Forest Plantation in Forest Research Institute, Dehradun Using IKONOS Data

Mapana Journal of Sciences ◽

10.12723/mjs.11.6 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 75-88

Author(s):

Kotresha K. ◽

Indra Jit Singh

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Forest Management ◽

Forest Cover ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Mixed Forest ◽

Aerial Photographs ◽

Fuel Wood ◽

Eucalyptus Plantation ◽

Eucalyptus Forest

The forests are the source for many essential requirements such as fuel wood, timber, raw materials for paper and above all, it helps us to maintain the CO2 /O2 balance in nature. Sustainable forest management requires reliable information. The aerial photographs and GIS data information can generate various scenarios for forest management plans at local, national and global scales. IKONOS is the world first one-meter resolution commercial imaging satellite. The interpretation of aerial photograph and satellite data are of great benefit for neighboring and regional land use, forest mapping, to find change detection and are effective for large are inventories, forest planning etc. In the present study, an attempt has been made to classify the FRI forest in to 11-forest cover and land use classes. The major chunk of forest consists of Pine forest, which occupy 94.04 ha and 143.20 ha of the total forest area during 1973 and 2001, respectively. It is followed by mixed forest with 53.31 ha (1973) and 5.50 ha (2001), and Teak with 17.68 ha (1973) and 8.49 ha (2001). The Sal forest showed an increase in forest cover from 4.83 ha (1973) to 5.39 ha (2001). Similarly Eucalyptus forest showed a forest cover of 1.84 ha in 2001, which was not seen in the year 1973. The constructions also showed an increase from 3.14 ha in 1973 to 24.68 ha in 2001 and in case of nursery and miscellaneous (scrub), there has been increasing in total forest cover. The IKONOS image of 2001 surprisingly showed no change in Champa forest cover. Decrease in forest cover of Teak, Sal and Mixed forest must have been due to felling of trees for logging purposes and their forest cover might have been replaced by scrub vegetation (miscellaneous) , construction, Eucalyptus plantation and nursery. The results of the present project showed changes in terms of area coverage by the forest types, which helps us to assess future prospects of the forestland use pattern.

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Globale Walderhaltung und -bewirtschaftung und ihre Finanzierung: eine Bestandesaufnahme | Global forest conservation and management and its financing: an appraisal

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen ◽

10.3188/szf.2011.0107 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 162 (4) ◽

pp. 107-116

Author(s):

Jürgen Blaser ◽

Christian Küchli

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Forest Management ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Forest Conservation ◽

Forest Cover ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Forest Products ◽

Forest Protection

Around one third of the earth's surface is under forest cover which is distributed more or less equally between industrialised and developing countries. Whereas forest areas in the temperate and boreal climate zones are more or less stable or on the increase, the scale of deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics remains dramatic. This situation is likely to continue in the decades to come because the world's ever-growing population needs new agricultural land and the pressure on resources (forest products, land, water, minerals) continues to increase as a result of globalisation and global change. Moreover, sustainable forest management has not yet become standard practice in many southern countries because forest management can rarely compete with other forms of land use in terms of economic returns. The protection and sustainable management of forest resources is basically the responsibility of each individual country and cannot be regulated and financed globally. However, enormous financial resources, i.e. on a scale of tens of billions of Swiss francs per year, are required for the introduction of comprehensive land-use planning in developing countries incorporating suitable protection of natural forests and sustainable forest management. New approaches for the valorisation of services provided by forests such as carbon sinks (e.g. REDD+) offer significant potential for improving forest protection and sustainable forest management. It augurs well that the economic internalisation of the forest and its services is in full swing at global level and that, based on the REDD+ resolutions passed at the last climate conference in Cancún, many countries have opted for the path of forest conservation and sustainable forest management.

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Utilizing issue network analyses to assess potential policy implications of sustainable forest management in the United States.

Forest policy for private forestry: global and regional challenges ◽

10.1079/9780851995991.0029 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 29-40

Author(s):

S. O. Moffat ◽

F. W. Cubbage ◽

T. P. Holmes ◽

E. O'Sullivan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Forest Management ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

The United States ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Network Analyses ◽

Issue Network

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The Terms Foresters and Planners in the United States Use to Infer Sustainability in Forest Management Plans: A Survey Analysis

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12010017 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 17 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alba Rocio Gutierrez Garzon ◽

Pete Bettinger ◽

Jacek Siry ◽

Bin Mei ◽

Jesse Abrams

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Forest Management ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

The United States ◽

Survey Analysis ◽

Forest Sustainability ◽

Management Plans ◽

Sample Technique ◽

Forest Plans

Sustainable forest management is important for advancing sustainable societal development. Effective communication plays a major role in how goals and objectives are achieved. This study aims to assess how sustainability is considered by people who develop forest management plans (or forest plans in short). We employed the snowball sample technique to locate the study’s respondents. In addition, an open-ended questionnaire and a mix method data collection (phone and email) and analysis (qualitative and quantitative) were found to be adequate methods to survey forest planners who have been involved in the development, implementation, evaluation, and/or revision of forest plans in the United States. Our approach helped us to understand their perceptions of and means of incorporating sustainability concerns in forest plans. A total of 55 surveys were completed by forest planners physically located in 26 of the 50 states in the country. Results suggested that planners generally placed environmental sustainability concerns over social and economic sustainability concerns. A variety of key terms were central to forest planners’ attempts to communicate sustainability, from which most were associated with philosophical and temporal principles that would then be associated with concrete actions and the human dimension. Nevertheless, respondents also acknowledged difficulties and misunderstandings in describing how forest sustainability should be demonstrated within a forest plan. Topics such as restoration, carbon sequestration, and resilience were infrequently associated with sustainability and sustainable forest management. Finally, we found that the respondents were divided on whether the language used in forest plans to demonstrate sustainability could be improved.

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