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2/10/2015 1 New Jersey State Forestry Services Lynn Fleming Director/State Forester www.whrc.org/mapping/nbcd/index.html View entire nation’s cover:

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New Jersey State Forestry Services

Lynn FlemingDirector/State Forester

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Personnel

• Vicky Young –retired• Grants Administrator – retired• Bureau Chief – temp. assignment• Soon to retire – Jack Shuart• Reassignment – Joe Bennett

PRIVATE LANDS

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Private Lands

• Annual USFS Stewardship reporting– 5,279 landowners assisted– 14, 632 acres – FSI– 2,280 acres ‐ Stand Establishment ‐– Sawtimber 4.86 M BF– Round wood 27,128 cords– Total harvest  $2.7 M

Private Lands

• 2014 SFS Stats

• FLA       5,500 applications• 258,000 acres

• FS          2,000 enrolled• 150,000 acres

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NURSERY

Nursery

• > 300k seedlings for reforestation/afforestation projects

• Arbor Day Sandy Storm Recovery Project – 100k seedlings will be provided to homeowners in late March/April

• A4055 – Assembly bill – sales cannot be below market value; impact sales to private landowners

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EDUCATION AND OUTREACH

Woodland Stewards

• Designed to increase basic understanding of forest management to interested public

• 4 day/3 night ‐ $75• Rutgers/NJFA with funding from SFS/USFS• 4th program in 2014• 21 successful graduates• Require 30 hours of volunteer service

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Backyard Forestry in 90 minutes

2/12  Pruning trees for health and beauty3/12  Wildlife in, on, and around your trees4/9  What’s bugging your trees5/14  Under the microscope: Tree diseases

FREC Programs

Full Moon HikeFebruary 2, 2015March 6, 20157:00 p.m.

Forest Resource Education CenterJackson, NJ 

www.forestrycenter.nj.gov

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Nature Conservancy Workshop

Farms, Forests and Rivers: Sustaining Our Way of Life

January 28, 201510 a.m. – 3.p.m.Free workshop for farmers, landowners and municipalities in the Paulinskill River area.

Sussex County Fairgrounds37 Plains Rd., Augusta, NJ

Events

• Wild Outdoor Expo ‐ Colliers Mills WMA• Sept 12‐13, 10‐3

• Fall Forestry Festival ‐ FREC•Oct 3, 10‐3

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Website

• RFP in review

• Interactive; increase information

• Create SFS identity separate from Parks

STATE LANDS

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State Lands

• Plan development process finalized• Working with F&W as well as Parks• Continue discussions with Pinelands Commission

• RFP for 30k+ acres – Inventory of 7 DEP parcels – Stokes, High Point, Bear Swamp, Hainesville, Flatbrook, Trout Brook, Walpack

State Lands

• Harvesting Contracts out  or soon‐to‐be– Double Trouble – Atlantic White Cedar– Whiting WMA– Stafford Forge WMA (second time)– Brendan Byrne SF– Greenwood WMA

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State Lands

• Projects underway– Wharton SF – SPB/Hazardous fuel thinning project– Double Trouble SP ‐ Stewardship plan – public comment

– Belleplain SF ‐ Stewardship Plan – draft update– Sparta Mtn WMA Stewardship Plan– Weldon Brook WMA

FIRE

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RxB

• 2014 ‐ >15,000 acres burned• Policy updates ‐ 3 methods for private landowner to manage1. Landowner conducts – current practice2. SFS implements – based on availability; no cost 

for 20153. “Professional burn manager” – permits the 

hiring of a professional  still under development

Wildfire Stats

• 922 wildfires– 677 fires – less than ¼ acre– 200 fires – ¼ to 9.99 acres

• 6531 acres• 381 other incidents

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Fire Adapted Community Fire Service Leadership Award

Greg McLaughlin

URBAN AND COMMUNITY

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Community Forestry

• $1.2 M in funding• 264 Municipalities with CFMP• 147 Green Communities Grants• 27 CSIP Grants• 151 Tree City municipalities

Consultant program

• Shade Tree Federation/Rutgers/SFS

• Outreach regarding Community Forestry Management plans, etc

• Increase engagement with urban/community forestry foresters

• Sometime 2015

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FOREST HEALTH

Emerald ash borer in NJ 

Detected in four municipalities

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EAB Task Force

• SFS/Rutgers/Dept of Ag/USDA APHIS

• Develop a united message and transfer of information to landowners, municipalities, non‐profits, etc

• Website  ‐ NJ‐centric

Southern Pine Beetle

• Continue to harvest hot spots• Decrease in beetles and spots• Movement is slowly moving north – confirmed in Ocean County

• Confirmed on Long Island, NY• Working with USFS for additional forest health funding.

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Northern long‐eared bat

Proposed for listing as endangered under USFW Endangered Species Act

STEWARDSHIP RULE

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Stewardship rule

• Must conform to Treasury’s FLA rules and program

• Pinelands CMP• Flood Hazard rules and Freshwater Wetlands• OPRA and DEP General Practice and Procedure rules

• USFWS – ESA• DEP T&E rules and process• USDA ‐ USFS – Stewardship program is guidance

Stewardship rule

• Stewardship law and Beck Bill – require monitoring requirements

• Guidance document will need to be developed for implementation

• VOLUNTARY

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Stewardship rule

• 3 stakeholder meetings – Nov. 2014• New draft to go out within the next week• Submit for legal review – March/April• Governor office approval• 60 – day public comment period

New Initiatives

• FIA Inventory Contract with USFS• Industry Meeting• Private Lands fuels mitigation projects• Pilot project ‐ Installation of 2 cameras for Detection 

• Focus on wildfire hazards/risks in Pinelands –grant application

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ISSUE

REFERENDUM

For more info

www.forestry.nj.gov

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Lynn Fleming, State Forester609‐292‐[email protected]

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