Forest Communities, Community Forests
Struggles and Successes in Rebuilding Communities and Forests
Published on 4. August 2003
328 pages
979-8-216-33494-1 (ISBN)
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Forest Communities, Community Forests is a collection of stories about twelve communities in the United States and their efforts to protect and restore their community forests. It explores the struggles and opportunities faced by people as they work to invest in natural capital, reverse decades of poor forest practices, tackle policy gridlock, and address community as well as ecological health. The case studies are organized by the dominant themes in American community forestry today, with the basic premise that healthy ecosystems depend on healthy communities, and vice-versa. Unlike most studies of contemporary forestry, Forest Communities, Community Forests focuses on community well-being and, more generally, community concerns. While some recent studies have examined the environmental benefits of place-based resource management or collaborative processes, few have looked at community needs and concerns-beyond the question of how to entice locals to comply with 'new' forestry. It is our hope that these case studies will convey the importance of community-based forestry, and contribute to the understanding and development, and ultimately the success of new community-based initiatives in the U.S.
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Jonathan P. Kusel
Forest Communities, Community Forests
Struggles and Successes in Rebuilding Communities and Forests
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08/2003
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Jonathan Kusel is executive director of Forest Community Research, a research and educational organization based in the Northern California.
Content
1 Acknowledgments
2 Preface
3 Introduction
Part 4 Section I: Investing in Natural Capital, Investing in Community
Chapter 5 Linking Water Quality and Community Well-Being in a Forested Watershed
Chapter 6 Against the Odds: (Re-)Building Community through Forestry on the Hoopa Reservation
Chapter 7 Revolutionizing County Forest Management in Minnesota: Aitkin County and SmartWood Certification
Part 8 Section II: From Process to Practice
Chapter 9 Catron County, New Mexico: Mirroring the West, Healing the Land, Rebuilding Community
Chapter 10 From Them to Us: The Applegate Partnership
Chapter 11 Waiting and Seeing in Coos County: The Promises of Lake Umbagog
Chapter 12 Collaboration for Community and Forest Well-Being in the Upper Swan Valley, Montana
Chapter 13 Revitalizing Baltimore: Urban Forestry at the Watershed Scale
Part 14 Section III: Stewarding the Land
Chapter 15 Kicking Dirt Together in Colorado: Community-Ecosystems Stewardship and the Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership
Chapter 16 Western Upper Peninsula Forest Improvement District: Adding Value to a Working Landscape
Chapter 17 The Integration of Community Well-Being and Forest Health in the Pacific Northwest
Chapter 18 Forestry at the Urban-Rural Interface: The Beaver Brook Association and the Merrimack River Watershed
19 Conclusion
2 Preface
3 Introduction
Part 4 Section I: Investing in Natural Capital, Investing in Community
Chapter 5 Linking Water Quality and Community Well-Being in a Forested Watershed
Chapter 6 Against the Odds: (Re-)Building Community through Forestry on the Hoopa Reservation
Chapter 7 Revolutionizing County Forest Management in Minnesota: Aitkin County and SmartWood Certification
Part 8 Section II: From Process to Practice
Chapter 9 Catron County, New Mexico: Mirroring the West, Healing the Land, Rebuilding Community
Chapter 10 From Them to Us: The Applegate Partnership
Chapter 11 Waiting and Seeing in Coos County: The Promises of Lake Umbagog
Chapter 12 Collaboration for Community and Forest Well-Being in the Upper Swan Valley, Montana
Chapter 13 Revitalizing Baltimore: Urban Forestry at the Watershed Scale
Part 14 Section III: Stewarding the Land
Chapter 15 Kicking Dirt Together in Colorado: Community-Ecosystems Stewardship and the Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership
Chapter 16 Western Upper Peninsula Forest Improvement District: Adding Value to a Working Landscape
Chapter 17 The Integration of Community Well-Being and Forest Health in the Pacific Northwest
Chapter 18 Forestry at the Urban-Rural Interface: The Beaver Brook Association and the Merrimack River Watershed
19 Conclusion
