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COMMUNITY-BASED
FORESTRY ISSUE PROJECTS
Volunteers
for Outdoor Colorado (CO)
VOC
2003 USFS Partnership Projects Pike-San Isabel,
Arapaho-Roosevelt NF
This group wants to involve more than 730 volunteers
in the completion of five high priority projects
that share a diverse array of community, economic,
recreation and conservation benefits.
National Network
of Forest Practitioners (OR, MT, NC)
Building Community
Capacity for Community-Based Forest Stewardship
The NNFP plans to strengthen the capacity of the
people, organizations, and businesses that practice
community-based forest stewardship to solve problems,
experiment with new approaches, compete in the
marketplace, and work collaboratively with the
U.S. Forest Service. NNFP will hold meetings and
workshops and conduct peer training with practitioners
as part of this project.
Midtown
Neighborhood Association (WI)
Lynden
Hill Reforestation Plan
This neighborhood association plans to prepare
a reforestation and forest management plan, implement
the first phase of reforestation, and develop
and present an educational module for community
inner-city youth.
Framing
Our Community (ID)
Ragg
Station Trail Restoration Nez Perce NF
This project will provide community members with
“hands on” forest management skills
while assisting the Forest Service, the Bureau
of Land Management, and private landowners with
needed watershed restoration, fuels reduction,
urban interface and forest restoration.
Pinchot Institute
for Conservation (MT, CA, OR)
Community
Benefits from National Forest Management Activities
The Pinchot Institute wants to study (on six National
Forests), the measurable community benefits derived
from land management activities, through a survey
of prime and sub-contractors engaging in land
management work.
Sustainable
Northwest (OR)
Boaz
Forest Health and Small Diameter Utilization Project
This Northwest nonprofit aims to promote linkages
between the health of the forest and the vitality
and economic well-being of the communities closest
to federal forestland through a collaborative
project to remove and process small diameter trees. |
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