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Forest Communities Committee
Forest Education Committee
Forest Management Committee
Forest Policy Committee
Forest Research Committee
Alabama
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Arkansas
Arizona
California
California
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Connecticut
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District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
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Michigan
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New Mexico
New York
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Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
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Tennessee
Texas
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Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
The purpose of the Communities Committee is to focus attention on the interdependence
between America's forests and the vitality of rural and urban communities, and to promote:
Several members of the Communities Committee serve on a task group formed by the new Chief
of the U.S. Forest Service, Michael Dombeck, charged with making recommendations as to what
the Forest Service can do to use collaborative stewardship as a means of accomplishing
ecosystem management. Besides utilizing the Committee's contacts to solicit information from
its affiliate groups, the Forest Service has asked the Communities Committee to serve as a focus
group to review the initial recommendations drafted by the task group. Implementation of the
findings of this process is planned to begin next fall.
The Communities Committee held a meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on November 14 -
17, 1996. The meeting was coordinated by Sandra Hill, chief forester for the District of
Columbia. The meeting focussed on the connections between urban forest resources and
community empowerment and development, and give Committee members the opportunity to
interact with local community organizers, neighborhood groups, and project implementation
teams. The group learned about the grassroots activities of Baltimore's Parks and People
Foundation and the Revitalizing Baltimore project, which is a joint undertaking of the U.S.
Forest Service and local agencies. The meeting included tours of local project sites, a workshop
on environmental justice, and presentations by representatives of the Baltimore Department of
Recreation and Parks, and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. A number of
commonalities between urban and rural forestry were identified during the course of the meeting,
including the need for reinvestment in both forests and communities combined with the buy-in
and support of the local community; the recent trend of citizen involvement in decision making
and implementation; and the need for good water quality and quantity.
The Communities Committee business meeting held as part of the Baltimore gathering featured a
discussion of how to better involve the full Communities Committee membership (currently
about 170 people) in the work of the Committee. Active participation of committee members
will be solicited through a series of phone calls planned for February or March 1997. During the
business meeting, It was also decided that the Communities Committee would collaborate with
other groups on some upcoming meetings, such as the American Forests workshop on defining
community-based forestry in the United States, which will be held later in 1997. [Note: the
November 1997 issue of American Forests magazine will be devoted to exploring
community forestry issues in the U.S.]
Researchers affiliated with the Communities Committee are conducting eighteen case studies of
community-based forestry efforts. This case research will examine the links between community
well-being and forest ecosystem health, in both rural and urban communities across the United
States. The principles extracted from the case studies will be drawn together in a published
monograph that will identify what community forestry is, the organizational and group processes
people have used in these efforts, and the project elements that have made a positive contribution
to community well-being and ecosystem health.
More information about the Communities Committee is available on the Community
Committee's World Wide Web homepage. The Communities Committee also prints the
informative newsletter Communities and Forests, which is available free upon request to
Watershed Research and Training Center (see address below).
The Communities Committee has also established a listserve to provide a discussion forum for
individuals interested in community-based resource management. To subscribe to the list, send
the following e-mail message to Majordomo@ag.arizona.edu
Contact: Lynn Jungwirth, Watershed Research & Training Center, Hayfork, CA 96041, Phone:
916-628-4206, E-mail: lynnj@tcoe.trinity.k12.ca
The Education Committee held a strategy session on November 12, 1996 during the national
convention of the Society of American Foresters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Committee
decided to concentrate its efforts on two key activities to support improvements in forest
education in the U.S.--i.e., raising money for selected, existing, high priority educational
programs that deal with forest issues and supporting the further development of one or more
existing educational homepages on the World Wide Web.
Contact: Dennis LeMaster, Department of Forestry, Purdue University, W.Lafayette, IN 47907,
Phone: 317-494-3590, E-mail: dclmstr@forest1.fnr.purdue.edu
The executive board of the Society of American Foresters has agreed that the SAF will serve as
the host organization of the Forest Management Committee in 1997. The members of the
committee are to appointed by the Forest Congress Legacy Committee. Some thought has
already been given as to the specific on-the-ground management issues the committee might
constructively address and what sort of assistance the committee might give to the other national
implementation committees.
Contact: Bill Banzhaf, Society of American Foresters, 5400 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, MD
20814, Phone: 301-897-8720, E-mail: banzhafb@safnet.org
The Policy Committee has been active in carrying the Seventh American Forest Congress vision
and principles into the U.S. forest policy arena. Most recently, the Policy Committee sent a copy
of the Final Report of the Seventh American Forest Congress to each member of the Committee
of Scientists, a group convened by US Department of Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman in
1997 to provide the Department with scientific and technical advice on improvements that can be
made in the National Forest System Land and Resource Management planning process. The
members of the Committee of Scientists were invited to contact the Policy Committee to discuss
how the results of the Forest Congress might contribute to their work.
The Policy Committee also recently sent a letter and copy of the Final Report of the Seventh
American Forest Congress to U.S. Senators Frank Murkowski and Larry Craig, and U.S.
Representatives Don Young and Helen Chenoweth in response a letter they sent in February
1998 to USDA Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck asking him to describe the effects of halting
vegetative management on the National Forest System. The Policy Committee's letter highlights
the broad agreement reached at the Forest Congress on the values Americans want from their
forests, values which the Committee does not believe can be adequately provided on the National
Forest System under a regime of custodial management. The letter concluded by urging the
lawmakers to considered the implications of the Seventh American Forest Congress results as
they proceed with their review of management practices on the national forests.
Prior activities related to the Policy Committee's mission have included the participation of
Committee chair Perry Hagenstein in several meetings since the Forest Congress that have
considered the National Forest Management Act and other forest policy issues. The Pinchot
Institute for Conservation, which is hosting the Policy Committee, sponsored a conference on
November 19 - 20, 1996 entitled "Evolving Toward Sustainable Forestry: Assessing Change in
U.S. Forestry Organizations" which used the results of the Forest Congress as a basis for some of
the discussions.
Contact: Perry Hagenstein, Institute for Forest Analysis, Planning, and Policy, Box 44, Wayland,
MA 01778, Phone: 508-358-2261, E-mail: hagenstein@aol.com
The Research Committee met in Portland, Oregon, in late September 1996. The meeting
reaffirmed that the committee should be a mix of researchers and users of science-based
information. The committee began a diagnostic about what is working and what is not working
in the nation's forest research system. Among the topics considered were the agenda for
research, the mechanisms for transferring research findings, funding levels and sources, and
organizational structures.
A related development that has occurred since this meeting is the establishment of the Forest Research Community website,
which is designed to facilitate communication between forest ecosystem researchers, funders of
research, and users of research. The Forest Research Community website provides a gateway to
important sources of forest research information, an opportunity for interested parties to join a
database of research workers and on-going projects, and electronic bulletin board forums on jobs,
conferences, research funding, etc.
The second Forest Research Committee meeting took place in Washington, DC in October which
brought federal, university, industrial, and NGO research specialists together to discuss
partnerships as a structural device to improve the targeting of forest research, the quality of
results, and the quantity of available resources. The group also conducted a diagnostic of the
total forest research system. The meeting was cosponsored by the USDA Forest Service, the
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Pinchot Institute, and Yale Forest
Forum.
The most recent Research Committee meeting took place in early January 1997 in Charleston,
SC. The group recommended that a Forest Research Council be established, new mechanisms
for the funding of forest research be developed, and that both the existing producers of forest
research and the kinds of users of forest research be identified. A number of action steps aimed
at achieving real progress toward these goals by the middle of 1997 have been set in motion.
One of the action steps is to assist the local roundtables that are reconvening to review the
recommendations of the Forest Research Committee and identify locally important research
needs.
The next meeting of the Forest Research Committee is scheduled for December 10 - 11 (noon to
noon) in Washington, DC. The final report of the Committee will be ready for distribution in
early 1998.
Contact: William R. Bentley, Chair, Faculty of Forestry, SUNY College of Environmental
Science and Forestry, 320 Bray Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, Phone:
315-470-6534/6536, Fax: 315-470-6535, E-mail: wbentley@esf.edu
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Alaskans have proceeded on several fronts following the February 96 Seventh American Forest
Congress gathering in Washington, DC. The results of the 7AFC were conveyed to the state's
U.S. Congressional delegation through a series of briefings. On January 24, 1997, the state
chapter of the Society of American Foresters sponsored a roundtable in Anchorage at which
more than 70 diverse participants discussed the spruce bark beetle epidemic that is severely
affecting millions of forested acres in south-central Alaska. A more detailed report on this
meeting will be posted here in the near future. A follow-up meeting at which options for an
action program to control the epidemic and restore the affected forests will be considered is
planned for April 1997.
The Juneau Chamber of Commerce's Resource Committee will hold a roundtable discussion on
March 5-6 to consider resource development alternatives for southeast Alaska. This meeting will
use a variation of the format employed at the pre-Forest Congress roundtables in Alaska and the
January 24th spruce bark beetle meeting.
Contact: John Sandor, P.O. Box 21235, Juneau, AK, 99802-1135, Phone: 907-586-2497, Fax:
907-586-2490, E-mail: jsandor@ptialaska.net
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A statewide roundtable to follow up on the Seventh American Forest Congress occurred on
January 18, 1997 at the Lake City Community College in Lake City, Florida. The University of
Florida School of Forest Resources and Conservation took the lead on organizing and
facilitating this session. The group considered the Sustainable Forestry Initiative being
promoted by the American Forest and Paper Association. After a briefing on the background,
structure, and progress to date of the program, and the underlying principles of sustainable
forests, the group was asked to objectively evaluate the program, its accomplishments, and its
relevance to the sustainability of Florida's forests. A more complete report on the roundtable will
be posted here in the near future.
Contact: Dr. Wayne H. Smith, Director, School of Forest Resources and Conservation,
University of Florida, 118 Newins-Ziegler Hall, P.O. Box 110410, Gainesville, FL 32611-0410,
Phone: 352-846-0850, Fax: 352-392-1707.
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The committee that organized the two pre-Forest Congress roundtables in Indiana held several
facilitated meetings following the Seventh American Forest Congress, and decided to reconvene
the pre-Congress roundtables in the same locations and using the same format. The Jasper
roundtable reconvened on November 9, 1996 and the Wabash roundtable reconvened on
November 16th. The roundtables were sponsored by the Indiana Department of Natural
Resources--Forestry Division, Purdue University's Department of Forestry and Natural
Resources, Indiana Hardwood Lumberman's Association, the Sycamore Chapter of the
Audubon Society, Indiana Society of American Foresters, and Aristocraft Inc. Participants
included both people who attended the pre-Forest Congress roundtables and some folks who are
new to the process.
Fragmentation and destruction of forest land and/or fragmentation of ownership patterns ranked
as the issue of greatest concern among the nine issues identified by the roundtables. Land-use
planning and zoning were action items listed by all roundtable groups as strategies to focus on to
address this issue. All of the small working groups at each of the roundtables called for forest
interests to be represented on local planning commissions or at least have forest resource
concerns recognized by these regulatory bodies. Other high-priority issues were the need for
better forest management on private property, finding the appropriate balance between
landowner property rights and governmental regulations, providing stronger incentives for forest
stewardship, and the need for a clear forest policy for the state.
The Indiana planning committee met for a final time on February 19, 1997. They decided then,
that for now, the roundtable process had fulfilled its purpose and the only remaining tasks were
to publish and distribute the report to participants, the individuals and organizations roundtable
participants felt have the potential to address the issued they had identified, and other interested
parties. In addition, some of the committee members made commitments to establish links
between various organizations to begin addressing specific items identified in the report.
Contact: Ron Rathfon, 11371 Purdue Farm Rd., Dubois, IN 47527, Phone: 812-678-3401, Fax:
812-678-3412, E-mail: ronr@purdue.edu
A multi-state meeting of Society of American Foresters chapters in the Midwest took place in
Amana Colonies, Iowa on October 4-5, 1996. The SAF members from Iowa, Missouri, Illinois,
Wisconsin, and Minnesota who attended reviewed the results of the Forest Congress and then
considered what actions they should initiate in individual states and the region--and the steps
needed to avoid duplicating efforts--in order to advance the vision and principles developed at
the Forest Congress.
Following on the October meeting, a liaison committee was formed to facilitate subsequent
activities in Iowa. As of early 1997, the liaison committee plans to invite 10 - 15 Iowa forest
stakeholders from the range of viewpoints to join a state steering committee. The steering
committee, which should be established by April 1997, will be charged with deciding
how to proceed in addressing the state's forest issues (e.g., hold another statewide roundtable or a
series of regional roundtables).
Contact: Brent Olson, Chair-Iowa Chapter of the Society of American Foresters, Loess Hills
State Forest, Box 158, Pisgah, IA 51564, Phone: 712-456-2924, E-mail: brentoly@aol.com
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Judith Berg, one of the organizers of the pre-Forest Congress roundtable that took place in
Maine, reports that there was no direct follow up to the Maine roundtable or the Forest Congress
in Maine in 1996 because everyone's energy was focussed on the clearcutting referendum that
was voted on in November. She says folks are still working on this issue, and is unsure if or
when any follow up to the Forest Congress will take place in Maine.
Contact: Judith Berg, Small Woodland Owners Association, 153 Hospital Street, Augusta, ME
04332, Phone/Fax: 207-336-2396.
Three individuals from Baltimore who participated in the Seventh American Forest Congress
reported on the Forest Congress process and results to a Baltimore Community Forestry
Association meeting in the late summer of 1996. The participants reported the Congress to have
been a very interesting experience, although they had a tough time convincing some of the other
participants that there's such a thing as an "urban forest". They thought that while the overall
vision and principles from the Forest Congress may not be very applicable or useful in the urban
context, they thought is was a valuable accomplishment that the Congress did pay attention to
and acknowledge urban forest issues.
Although no other direct follow up to the Forest Congress is currently planned in Baltimore, the
Forest Congress Communities Committee held their November meeting in Baltimore and the
local groups made presentations and gave tours of their activities.
Contact: Paul Jahnige, Urban Resources Inititative, 2600 Madison Ave., Baltimore, MD 21217,
Phone: 410-396-0718, Fax: 410-396-7945, E-mail: pjoool@epfl2.epflbalto.org
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Kathleen Halvorsen reports that she is coordinating a public participation project that will follow
in the spirit of the Seventh American Forest Congress. The project, which is being conducted in
collaboration with the Haiwatha and Ottawa National Forests, and the Michigan Department of
Natural Resources, will focus on five communities in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The project
will gauge community interests and concerns regarding the management of the local national
forests. Public input will be solicited through meetings with established community groups (e.g.,
Rotary Clubs) and a series of community suppers open to the general public. The information
gathered will be compared to that usually gathered through the traditional methods of soliciting
public comments on national forest management.
Contact: Kathleen Halvorsen, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Tech University, 1400
Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, Phone: 906-487-2824, Fax: 906-487-2468, E-mail:
kehalvor@mtu.edu
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The second New Mexico Forest Roundtable was held July 30, 1996 at Santa Fe Community
College. Invitations for the day-long event were sent to everyone who attended the first (i.e.,
pre-Seventh American Forest Congress) roundtable in New Mexico, plus others with
long-standing interests in New Mexico forest issues.
The agenda for the day included:
The planning committee for this roundtable included community organizers, a former board
member of the Seventh American Forest Congress, and state and federal forest managers.
Organizer Rosemary Romero says the meeting went well. The group focussed on the relation of
forests to local economic and community development, with an emphasis on low-impact means
of forest utilization (wood certification, woodworking techniques). Although the 30 person
turnout was somewhat disappointing, everyone stayed for the whole program. Rosemary says
the attendees were "hungry for information", and they came away from the meeting saying
they'd learned a lot. One recommendation was to hold similar roundtable discussions around the
state.
Contact: Rosemary Romero, Western Network, 811 St.Michael's Drive, Suite 106, Santa Fe, NM
87505, Phone: 505-982-9805, Fax: 505-983-8812, E-mail: 72733.775@compuserve.com
Daniel W. Weller, Chief of the Bureau of Forest Resources of the New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation, convened a "catalyst meeting" in the late spring of 1996 to discuss
the merits of developing a "New York Forestry Roundtable" patterned after the approach taken
in the Seventh American Forest Congress. The group concluded that it is worth pursuing the
concept of a roundtable aimed at developing a "sustainable dialogue" within the forestry
community of New York. Following on this meeting, Mr. Weller sent a letter to a larger group
of people inviting them to get involved in planning for the roundtable.
The NYS-DEC facilitated a meeting of forest stakeholders in November 1996. This "Conveners
Group" focused on the details of a possible statewide roundtable. Their planning culminated
in the New York Forest Roundtable, which was held March 23 -24, 1998 in Liverpool, NY.
Approximately 70 people took part in the roundtable. Participants reviewed the vision elements
and principles produced at the Seventh American Forest Congress, analyzed and developed
actions to address the key issues facing New York's forests, and planned their next steps. The
sense of the meeting was that it would be worthwhile to hold New York Forest Roundtable
meetings in the future, and a small working group was formed to flesh out the details of these
future meetings. It was also agreed that the State University of New York College of
Environmental Science and Forestry will produce a summary report on the latest roundtable, and
will continue to serve as the roundtable's institutional contact point for the time being.
Contact: William Bentley, ESF Faculty of Forestry, 320 Bray Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse,
NY 13210, Phone: 315-470-6534/6536, Fax: 315-470-6535, E-mail: wbentley@esf.edu
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David Ostermeier, contact person for the pre-Congress roundtable in Tennessee, has convened an
organizing committee to determine how to go about taking advantage of the interest in following
up on the Forest Congress. The organizing committee met in October 1996 and January 1997,
and is working with several group process experts to develop a process that the committee and
larger roundtable group can use to move toward agreements. The group envisions this to be the
beginning of a comprehensive, multi-year effort that will bring all Tennessee forest stakeholderrs
to the table to work collaboratively on the state's forest issues. The organizing committee is
making a concerted effort to broaden the interests represented on the committee to help insure
that the full range of stakeholders are involved in the roundtable. The group plans to meet again
in early May 1997, by which time a charter and mission for the initiative will have been
developed, and a grant proposal to attract funding for the effort will be ready to send out.
Contact: David Ostermeier, University of Tennessee, P.O. Box 1071, Knoxville, TN
37901-1071, Phone: 423-974-8843, Fax: 423-974-4714, E-mail: daveo@aesrs4.ag.utk.edu.
The "Forest Issues Council of East Texas" was formed following the 7AFC to bring
representatives of a diverse group of organizations together on a regular basis to discuss Texas
forest issues in an effort to resolve conflicts before they lead to litigation. Contact person Paul
Risk says "Nothing like this has been done before in Texas". The groups represented on the
Committee are a cross section of the groups that attended the pre-Congress roundtable in Texas
and include the TX Forest Service, TX Committee on Natural Resources, local forest products
industry and forestry consultants, Audubon, and the US Forest Service.
FICET met on a regular basis throughout 1996. Issues discussed included taxation of forest land,
use of outdoor recreational vehicles on public and private land, and logging practices. The group
is looking ahead to moving beyond discussion of these and other local forest issues in 1997.
Contact: Paul Risk, College of Forestry, Steven F. Austin State University, P.O. Box 6109,
Nacogdoches, TX 75962, Phone: 409-468-2492, Fax: 409-468-2448, E-mail:
f_riskph@titan.sfasu.edu
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The West Virginia roundtable reconvened in Flatwoods WV on November 12, 1997.
Approximately 90 people attended the meeting, where they worked to identify and prioritize the
most pressing issues facing West Virginia's forests. Following are the top ten issues identified,
listed in descending priority order:
In their evaluation of the roundtable, the participants indicated that they want to continue the
process. The organizing committee therefore plans to meet in January 1998 to determine how
best to proceed.
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Early in the summer of 1996, the state forester of Wisconsin sent a letter to about 120 people
who had participated in the pre-Congress roundtable in Wisconsin and/or the Seventh American
Forest Congress inquiring whether they were interested in pursuing local follow up to the Forest
Congress. As of late June, about 1/4 of the people contacted had responded, and over 90% of
these people said they did want to proceed. The focus of the follow-on efforts will be determined
by the people who get involved.
The Wisconsin roundtable, originally scheduled to reconvene on March 14-15, 1997, has been
postponed to as-yet undetermined date. Many of the people who had planned to attend the
weather-delayed March meeting participated in a conference call instead. The group got an
update on national-level activities from Forest Management Committee chair Bill Banzhaf, then
brief reports on the forest management, communities, education, policy, and research status in
Wisconsin. The group decided that they wanted to keep the process going, so planning for a
face-to-face meeting has begun.
Contact: Kirsten Held, Issues/Outreach Coordinator, Wisconsin Bureau of Forestry, P.O. Box
7921, Madison, WI 53707, Phone: 608-264-6036, Fax: 608-266-8576.
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In their small groups, the roundtable participants developed action plans for a number of the
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