Wildlands and Woodlands Partnership Meeting
September 29, 2010Fisher Museum, Harvard Forest
Petersham, MA
America's Great Outdoors Initiative and the Listening Session in Maine
The New England Governor's Conference Blue Ribbon Commission on Land Conservation
-Lynn Lyford, New England Forestry Foundation
1. Expand Financing & Investment Options
2. Develop Supportive Public Policy & Investment
3. Strengthen Capacity byBuilding Networks
Building Regional Capacity
1. Establish Community Forests
2. Launch
Mahoosuc Pilot
Place-Based Strategy Integration
1. Realize Profits from Ecosystem Services
2. Advance Community-Scale Biomass Energy
4. Increase Earnings fromHigh-Quality Tourism
Creating New & Revitalized Forest
Income Streams
3. Catalyze Innovation in Wood Products Mfg
2-3 schools/businesses with biomass heating• Local, sustainable, secure fuel supply• Significant cost savings• Reinvestment in local economy
2 Community Forests• Payments for biomass, carbon, water, & saw logs• Recreational resource• Ecological benefits
New Income for Forest Owners, Jobs for Forest Workers• Saw logs to local mills and manufacturers •Chip sales to local biomass installations •Access for recreation•Carbon, watershed payments
Jobs in Wood Products Manufacturing• Business innovation• Markets for local wood• Stabilized (and growing?) job base
Tourism Development • Hospitality training• Product development• Branding
High quality forest-based jobsInnovative forest-based business opportunitiesStabilized and sustainably managed forest base
Working Woodlands: Getting the Value Proposition Right for Private
Forest Landowners
-Dylan H. Jenkins, CF, Director of Forest Conservation, The Nature Conservancy
Forest Conservation Program in Pennsylvania
Dylan Jenkins, CFDylan Jenkins, CFDirector of Forest ConservationDirector of Forest ConservationThe Nature Conservancy in PAThe Nature Conservancy in PA
Getting the Value Proposition Getting the Value Proposition Right for Forest LandownersRight for Forest Landowners
SW-FM/CoC-238
Responsible ForestManagement
© 1996 FSC
Josh Parrish, CMAJosh Parrish, CMADirector of Conservation FinanceDirector of Conservation FinanceThe Nature Conservancy in PAThe Nature Conservancy in PA
Condition (1989-2005)• Stocking: Public > Private• Grade Quality: Public > Private• Low Use: Public < Private• Site Quality: Private > Public
= Degraded Private Forest Lands via Poor Management
FIA
FIA
Private Landowner Trends and Challenges• Aging landowners with wave of intergenerational transfer• Lack of forest and estate planning• Disinterested heirs• Ecological + amenity values over income, but…• Harvest without plan or professional assistance• Poor incentives to protect and manage forests sustainably
= Forest parcelization and forest use/cover fragmentation
NW
OS
NW
OS
Forest Landowners
RISK
EA
SE
SOCIALCLUBS
FORESTPRODUCTS
FIRMS
TIMOS
LANDTRUST
S
MUNICIPALITIES &
AUTHORITIES
FAMILYFORESTS
Tale of Two Forests…
TYPICALTRAJECTORY
• No plan
• No certification
• Declining timber quality
• No ecosystem service sales
• Parcelization and fragmentation
• Degraded forest
• Low quality timber
• Low quality habitat
• Low carbon storage
PRESENT
X
High quality plan
• FSC certification and sales
• Ecologically-based forest management
• Ecosystem service sales
• Protected investment
• Healthy forest
• High quality timber
• High quality habitat
• High carbon storage
Fundamentals
Maintain working forest landscapes for the production of high quality ecologic and economic values.
LONG-TERMFOREST
PROTECTION
• Working forest easements• Working forest agreements
CERTIFIEDFOREST
MANAGEMENT
• Inventory• Assessment and plan• FSC certification
ECOSYSTEMVALUE
MONETIZATION
• IFM + AC carbon offsets• Nutrient trading• Habitat mitigation
Institutionaland contractual
framework
Credibleand feasible
value proposition
Business Model
CertifiedForest
Management
• FSC wood markets
• new and secured clientele for CFs
• protect public investments
• satisfy C market prerequisites
• inventory, additionality, permanence
FSC CERTIFIEDHQ CARBON REVENUE
FSC SOLID WOOD & BIOMASS REVENUE
100%
Carbon Development
and Sales
•reduced costs to access C markets
•VCS, CAR, ACR
•project development
•C aggregation
•monitoring
•carbon marketing and sales
50%+
consultingforesters
state andfederal
Inventory+
FSC Plan andCertification
+Land Protection
• No up-front, out-of-pocket costs
• Full inventory
• FSC plan and certification
• 100% FSC-certified wood product revenues
• 50%+ forest carbon revenues
• Income tax deduction for easement donation
• Plan implementation
• Ecological health => product diversity => economic stability
Landowner Benefits
• Focus and protect public/private investments
• Active and engaged landowners
• Repair degraded forests; maintain desired conditions
• Keep working landscapes working and in private ownership
Public Benefits
PROPOSITION:
EcologicEconomic
Social
Reduce or eliminate transaction costs
Sharedrisk-reward model
Long termrelationship
Portfolio Development
RISK
EA
SE
SOCIALCLUBS
FORESTPRODUCTS
FIRMS
TIMOS
LANDTRUSTS
MUNICIPALITIES & AUTHORITIES
FAMILYFORESTS
35,000
11,000
10,000
5,000
Early Lessons
• Family forests
• Social clubs (hunt/fish, BSA, religious)
• Sawmills, other corporate
• Water authorities
• TIMO
• Land trusts and other TNC chapters
Market segments Institutionaland contractual
framework
Credibleand feasible
(revised) value proposition
Messaging, goals, barriers, values and vision
Financials
• Income assumptions sound
• Cost assumptions steady
• USFS SPF grant ($500k)
• Competing propositions understood
• Carbon protocols maturing, soft $$
• Quality, credibility
Better messaging
Greater confidence in value proposition
Strategy replication
Thank You!Dylan Jenkins, CF
The Nature Conservancy
nature.org/workingwoodlands
Woodland Councils USFS Redesign Grant Project
-Jay Rasku, North Quabbin Regional Landscape Partnership
W and W framework of actively managed woodlands and wildland reservesprovides major research opportunities
Documenting current forest structure & long-term dynamics of diverse forestsEvaluating the consequences of diverse management compared to reserves
Not a new concept, but few examples exist that explicitly compare managed and unmanaged forests
We initiated a wide-ranging forest monitoring program to be used by and Attract participation from a diverse array of landowners, organizations, and Researchers so that they can provide the rigorous long-term data needed
Emerging W & W Stewardship Science network8 pilot sites, diverse partners: collaborations between private citizens, towns, land trusts, conservation organizations, foundations, universities, and state governments.
The sites represent a wide range of sizes and forest types located in remote wildlands to rural and suburban woodland locations. Varied objectives
All used W & W science protocol
Over 450 plots established!
Recent Activity
Presented poster at Ecological Society of America Meeting in August
Stewardship science talk at upcoming Land Trust Alliance Rally
Recently held a W & W Stewardship Science workshop at Highstead
Discussed protocol, aided participants in plot establishment and sampling
Citizen Science can be a benefit to Conservation efforts
W & W Stewardship Science Web site:http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/wwscience/
Serve as valuable reference for Initiating plots- step by step methodsand manual; example data sheets
Data submitted from groups across New England and stored
Highlight the growing network of usersIn NE advancing scientific, educationaland management objectives
W & W Stewardship Science paper Forthcoming!
The Massachusetts Land Initiative for Tomorrow (MassLIFT) – AmeriCorps Program
-Leigh Youngblood, Mt. Grace Land Conservation Trust
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