Place-based planning: innovations and applications from four western forests.

Abstract

The Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is dedicated to the principle of multiple use management of the Nation's forest resources for sustained yields of wood, water, forage, wildlife, and recreation. Through forestry research, cooperation with the States and private forest owners, and management of the national forests and national grasslands, it strives-as directed by Congress-to provide increasingly greater service to a growing Nation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual's income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.

Making Sense of Human Ecology Mapping: An Overview of Approaches to Integrating Socio-Spatial Data into Environmental Planning

“…Terms used to describe SOP mapping include community values mapping (Raymond et al 2009), landscape values mapping (Carver et al 2009), social values mapping (Sherrouse et al 2011), place mapping (Cacciapaglia et al 2012), place-based planning (Farnum and Kruger 2008), and wilderness perceptions mapping (Kliskey and Kearsley 1993) among others. In the sense of place mapping literature we identified four fairly distinct strands differing according to what they map, data collection and analysis methods, and participation models ( Table 2).…”

“…Much of this work is informed by citizens and stakeholder groups and falls within the fields of public participation, GIS, and participatory GIS. Community values mapping (Raymond et al 2009), counter-mapping (Peluso 1995), cultural opportunities mapping (Tipa and Nelson 2008), landscape values mapping (Zhu et al 2010), mental mapping (McKenna et al 2008), participatory mapping (Herlihy 2003), place-based planning (Farnum and Kruger 2008), public participation GIS (Brown and Reed 2009), and social values mapping (Sherrouse et al 2011) are some of the terms used to describe these projects. All of these efforts seek to map the diverse and complex connections between humans and landscapes and thus fit under the broad umbrella of what we refer to as human ecology mapping (HEM).…”

New approaches to forest planning: inventorying and mapping place values in the Pacific Northwest Region

“…Although methods for eliciting individuals' descriptions of special places and landscape values have been developed in many localized case studies (e.g., Brown et al 2002, Eisenhauer et al 2000, Farnum and Kruger 2008, Williams and Vaske 2003, Yung et al 2003, a major challenge in forest planning has been uniting this type of social information with biophysical information. Region 6 planners envisioned geographic information systems (GIS) as a mechanism that could be used to overcome this challenge; by using a GIS-based system, social information could be presented alongside many types of biophysical information (e.g., vegetation data) that dominantly use visual depictions in the form of maps of existing conditions or plan alternatives.…”

Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Mapping Landscape Values: Issues, Challenges and Lessons Learned from Field Work on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

“…It can also be complicated by the inherent subjectivity, fuzziness, and changeability of human values. LVM helps environmental planners by providing data that can be used to integrate human values into place-based planning (Brown, Reed, and Harris, 2002;Cheng, Kruger, and Daniels, 2003;Endter-Wada and Blahna, 2011;Farnum and Kruger, 2008). In addition, Wright's (1942) classic article highlights the subjective elements of map making, still relevant today.…”