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Selected survey results from participants and interested parties, June-July 2007. Results from 100 responses to Part 1 and 85 responses to Part 2.

Examples offered by 50 respondents in June 2007:
  • One on one contact. Friend and neighbors most effective for first contact. Timely follow-up and advice by professionals in the field. Most people don't want to wait two or more years to see something happen. Continued contacts and fellowship with other land owners in the same situation that they are in. (A co-op or landowner group)
  • Healing Harvest Forest Foundation and its practitioner group the Healing Harvest Forestry Coalition. Worst first single tree selection and modern horse logging. Sliding scale pay system, DRAFTWOOD certification program.
  • Readily available personal contact from resource management professionals, and financial benefits such as reduced taxes or cost sharing. Managed Forest Law and cost sharing in southern Wisconsin counties (Iowa, Richland) and long term presence of forestry staff. Success is on the ground management practices.
  • The Nature Conservancy's Indiana Forest Bank -- program for small landowners (average parcel size 30 acres) in Southern IN (Blue River area). Total lands in the program are 3,500 acres. Lands are eased and/or long-term timber leases purchased; TNC manages the timberland and pays the owners a fixed % of the value of their standing timber; lands are part of TNC's group cert
  • FREE SERVICE FREE RECOGNITION, SUCH AS TREE FARM SYSTEM BEING PART OF A LANDSCAPE DEFINED ISSUE, SUCH AS APPLEGATE PARTNERSHIP, QUINCEY LIBRARY GROUP, ETC.
  • 1. Programs that give tax break for practicing sustainable forestry (e.g., Wisconsin's MFL program). Money motivates. 2. Programs that encourage neighbors to engage neighbors. Folks tend to trust their neighbors more than the private sector or government.
  • Landowner cooperatives, supplemental federal programs, relationships with responsible consulting foresters, state landowner assistance programs, industry landowner assistance programs
  • State forestry programs working with landowners Industry LAP programs Industry requirements for certified mill feed ATF group certification program
  • State tax incentive/abatement programs Technical assistance programs (that include follow-up and repeated landowner contact) Peer to peer outreach/mentoring programs
  • The most progressive program is our TREASURE FOREST stewardship program. They provide free leadership development programs and are taking a hard look at certification.
  • Several local organizations, such as WI Family Forests, Kickapoo Wood Coop, and others.
  • The Woodland School - Aldo Leopold Foundation in Wisconsin, Vermont Family Forests, Mass Woodland Owners Cooperative. Common element of successful programs is providing practical hands-on engagement between private owners and resource managers - together practicing active stewardship
  • Any private land forester who can set up forest management plans that meet FSC standards but who are paid not by the landowner, but someone else willing to pay the cost.
  • FSC Family Forests Program
  • Northwest Natural Resources Group seems to be gaining great success here in the Pacific Northwest.
  • State tax deferral programs that sponsor group certification programs (Wisconsin MFL, Indiana CFL). Forest Products Company Landowner Assistance Programs. Master Logger Certification in lieu of landowner certification.
  • Master logger program Wisconsin forest lands are certified. I'm not sure if there is success story that has been carried from the woodlot to the finished product on a large project that the public can relate to.
  • Any cost-share program or other means of generating revenue.
  • The Blue Ridge Forest Cooperative in Virginia, though this is a relatively new venture and the successes have not yet been measured! Educational presentations made by representatives of the Pioneer Forest in Missouri in conjunction with locally-based practitioners. The work of the Healing Harvest Forest Foundation.
  • WI. Managed Forest Law is highly successful (39,000 NIPF landowners with 2.9 million acres enrolled for 25 or 50 years. A generous property tax break is provided in exchange for sustainable forestry.
  • Community-based groups Group certification Partnerships between community groups and state agencies
  • Forestry extension programs -- Cornell University Cooperative Extension; New York Forest Owners Association
  • Federal programs such as FLEP and CRP
  • No good examples currently in my area.
  • Research has shown that landowners most prefer talking with a professional forester as the "active" methods of learning about certification; the most preferred "passive" method is publications/books/pamphlets. Regarding the sociodemographic variables that are significantly related to a landowner's willingness to consider certification, a relationship exists with the following: education (more is better), tenure of ownership (new owners more likely), professionals (occupation), and those who have already received forestry advice.
  • WI MFL and WFLGP programs (tax abatement and cost sharing on plans, planting, stewardship implementation) Having a local source for assistance - our Cooperative (LFC)
  • As Smartwood Resource Managers, our company (Columbia Forest Products ) at no cost to the forest landowner, will provide detailed forest management plans, lay out and mark timber sales, administer logging operations and provide follow up forest management to participating landowners.
  • State forestry assistance programs are widely recognized as a cornerstone of support for sustainable forest management on private woodlands (see NCSSF report, for example). Landowners value the one-on-one, unbiased advice they receive from state foresters.
  • Virginia Forest Watch actively engages in Virginia with yearly demonstrations using horse logger and forest consultants, speakers on conservation easements. As a result of our last event, the city of Big Stone Gap, Va hired consulting foresters to help with their public water problems via improvement and protection of the forest surrounding the resevior. Clint Trammel of Missouri's Pioneer forest has also been a past presenter at our events.
  • 1. Wisconsin's Managed Forest Law Program links management practices to a property tax reduction or deferral; the program meets 3rd party tree farm certification. 2. Wisconsin Family Forests - landowners at the neighborhood level that help each other by sharing information. 3. Wisconsin Forest Landowner Grant Program - cost sharing for forest practices. 4. Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association - programs and field days to share information between members; lot's of potential to grow membership if the organization wants to pursue this path. 5. Master woodland stewards - UW-Extension program to train woodland owners in a broad range of sustainable forestry issues. 6. UW-Extension basin educators and WI DNR forestry cooperative effort to engage forest owners at a pre-mananagement stage; general forest education for woodland owners in sessions that last 1 - 3 hrs at local nature centers. 7. Specific forest health initiatives such as Gypsy Moth control, Oak Wilt control, and Emerald Ash Borer education.
  • 1. Minnesota's Forest Stewardship Program has over the years has influenced the management 1.2 million acres of forestlands. Contact the MN DNR for more information (Gary Michael, 507-333-2011). 2. University of Minnesota Extension Service. contact the University for more information (Eli Sagor). 3. Community Forest Resources Center in Minneapolis. Contact Don Arnosti for more information. 4. Various co-ops in the upper Midwest.
  • The American Tree Farm System is simple, visible, has a history and has volunteer efforts to make it work and engage private landowners repeatedly. In Alabama, The Treasure Forest is another exemplary program that has developed a long history very similar to Tree Farm. The interesting thing is they accept each other. You can be a Treasure Forest and Tree Farm. No one says my system is better than your system. A system is better than no system.
  • Maine Master Logger model
  • Aitkin County, MN, SWCD private land owners FSC Certification.
  • Primarily programs such as MFL and stewardship
  • The Forest Stewardship program is national and in MN has been very effective at engaging landowners.
  • MA Woodlands Cooperative LLC, incorporated in 2001, now provides FSC certification to 55 private landowner members owning 12,000 acres, and coordinates value-added processing of stumpage bought from its members. The model is working and we are growing slowly, but surely.
  • University of Minnesota Extension's Woodland Advisor Program. University of Wisconsin Extension's Master Woodland Steward Program
  • Engaging in sustainable forestry takes many things. -Clear, accessible information in language, format, and media that *landowners* use and understand. Foresters have proven we are not good at this. - Property tax programs that make a substantial difference to a landowner's bottom line.
  • Extension efforts from established and credible sources. Specific examples of where landowners have made money from specific activities.
  • Master logger certification program Forest tax laws family forest associations Wisconsin Family Forests.
  • 1. Walks in woods with professionals & landowners. 2 Landowner alliances or cooperatives. 3. Newsletters and other information sources.
  • 1 FLIELD DAYS Put on by various assoc. and organizations. 2 Conferences - winter conference series around WI are a good example 3 One on one proselytizing by other involved owners -Tree Farm winners for example.
  • I have gotten valuable information and training from the USDA Extension Service's Master Tree Farmer program. The program on "Preparing for the Next Owner" addressed many of the issues I needed help with in order to move towards a clear management plan and certification of my own woodlands. It also addressed how to work through issues with family woodland held in common. Once those steps are in place, I know there are very knowledgeable people in my local Sustainable Forestry Cooperative who will serve as resources on specific issues that may arise.
  • WFLGP technical assistance to private landowners administered by the WIS DNR. 2. Landowners who under the WIS MFL program and landowners who belong to the ATFS. Both of these have a forest management plan informing landowners when they must do a forest management practice. 3. MFL lands being ATF certified and now be recommended by the DNR to have MFL and ATF lands be FSC certified.



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