Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Forest Stewardship Program in West Virginia: Ten-Year Assessment

Jennings, Brian M.; McGill, David W.

doi:10.1093/njaf/22.4.236

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“…For example, the American Tree Farm System includes 51,000 family forest owners and 33 million acres, but this is only 10% of private forest land in the United States. In West Virginia, USA, Forest Stewardship Program management plans cover over 600,000 acres of private forestland, but this represents only 3,500 of 260,000 private landowners (Jennings and McGill 2005). We have 2 recommendations to rectify this obvious gap between available knowledge and its use by private forest landowners:…”

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“…1) Public service providers, especially district foresters, Farm Service Agency, and Natural Resources Conservation Service, need a marketing plan. The Forest Stewardship Program participants tend to have large properties, higher incomes, and more education than the average forest landowner (Jennings and McGill 2005). Older rural landowners, with low incomes, little technical education, and no access to the Internet are a difficult audience to reach, yet these owners would benefit most from professional help.…”

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Forestry Matters: Decline of Oaks Will Impact Wildlife in Hardwood Forests

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: Acom production by oaks (Quercus spp.) is an important food resource for wildlife in many deciduous forests. Its role as a hard mast crop that can be either stored or used to build fat reserves for winter survival cannot be replaced by most other potential foods. Changes in forest management, introduced pests and pathogens, and increased deer populations have resulted in significant changes in the demography of oaks in eastern North America, as evident in Forest Inventory and Analysis data. Specifically, maples (Acer spp.) are replacing oaks in many forests through dominance of the younger age classes. These changes are not yet obvious in mast production but will take decades to reverse. Effective forest management for mast production is arguably one of the more important tasks facing wildlife professionals, yet receives scant attention by both public and private land managers. Public forests need to explicitly include mast production in their forest planning and reduce adversarial relationships over forest management. Market forces are driving commercial forests toward forest certification. Private forests compose 80% of our oak forests and are the hardest group to influence. States have not been able to effectively market forest plans and we recommend joining with advocacy groups more adept at motivating the public. Increased communication between wildlife and forestry professionals is needed through agency restructuring and joint meetings of professional agencies at the state level. Professional wildlife and forest managers are encouraged to make increased use of monitoring data and form a multiagency cooperative using a joint venture model, which has been successful for other organizations.

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Forestry Matters: Decline of Oaks Will Impact Wildlife in Hardwood Forests

McShea

Healy

Devers³

et al. 2007

J Wildl Manag

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“…Bell et al (1994) showed that attitudes and knowledge of forestry program would be more influential than the monetary incentives suggesting that indirect incentives would be more effective for landowner participation. Jennings and McGill (2005)…”

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“…Even though NIPF landowners have been a topic of extensive studies in other regions, there is very little information about the NIPF owners in the Eastern U.S., and more so in West Virginia. There have been studies on characterizing landowners' participation in Forest Stewardship Program and evaluating the effectiveness of this program in the state (e.g., Egan et al 2001, Magill 2003, Magill et al 2004, Jennings and McGill 2005. A detailed study on the characteristics and the management decisions of NIPF landowners in West Virginia has not been conducted since 1978 (Birch and Kingsley 1978).…”

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Nonindustrial private landowner's characteristics and their forest management decisions

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Private forest landowners own the largest share of the forest land in the United States. Future timber supply requires forest management and investment by these private forest landowners. Since private forest landowners are diverse, understanding the factors affecting the forest management decisions of these individuals is important. Two analyses are presented in this study to characterize the forest management decisions of West Virginia NIPF landowners and to understand their forest management decisions. The data for the study was collected from a mail survey conducted in August 2005 to 2100 landowners in West Virginia. The survey resulted in 244 useful responses, a 20% response rate. v

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“…The Forest Stewardship Program, promulgated through the 1990 Farm Bill, provides support to private landowners through technical assistance in managing their forestlands through assistance in developing forest management plans for their properties (USDA Forestry Title, n.d. ;Jennings & McGill, 2005). The Farmland Protection Act (2003) led to the creation of West Virginia Farmland Protection Boards which aim to protect agricultural land and woodland as open-space (West Virginia Farmland Protection, 2003, act section, 4) by guiding acquisitions of property, advising and promoting the protection of farmland (Craig, n.d).…”

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Cross-boundary Conservation Attributes of Farmland and Woodland Owners in the Greenbrier River Valley Landscape of Southeastern West Virginia

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Cross-boundary Conservation Attributes of Farmland and Woodland Owners in the Greenbrier River Valley Landscape of Southeastern West Virginia. Valerie Grant The Greenbrier River watershed features some of the most productive agriculture and timberlands, critical habitat, and extensive recreational opportunities in the central Appalachian Mountains. Cross-boundary conservation projects could address landscape scale issues such as parallelization and fragmentation in the agricultural, forest, and recreationally productive rural area in southeastern West Virginia. A survey of farmland and woodland owners explored relationships between landowner attributes, land management activities, sense of place, and willingness to participate in cross-boundary conservation efforts. Logistic regression analysis revealed two significant relationships between landowner attributes when considering neighboring properties while making management decisions and interest in conservation easements. These two attributes, contact with an agriculture professional or registered forester and conservation ethic (the affinity to and responsibility for land) could increase interest in cross-boundary conservation programs. Conservation ethic also had a negative relationship with interest in allowing leased access to properties for recreation or hunting, possibly because of perceived loss of privacy, identity, or control. Two main implications for reaching out to landowners and increasing participation in cross-boundary programs are: 1. Create opportunities for landowners to make contact with an agriculture or forestry professional, and 2. Design cross-boundary programs which mirror landowners existing practices, such as leasing. Thank you to my family, friends, and mentors for their support. Thank you to my committee and Dave McGill Ph.D., my advisor, for the opportunity.

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Forest Stewardship Program in West Virginia: Ten-Year Assessment

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Forestry Matters: Decline of Oaks Will Impact Wildlife in Hardwood Forests

Forestry Matters: Decline of Oaks Will Impact Wildlife in Hardwood Forests

Nonindustrial private landowner's characteristics and their forest management decisions

Cross-boundary Conservation Attributes of Farmland and Woodland Owners in the Greenbrier River Valley Landscape of Southeastern West Virginia

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