Forest Communities, Community Forests Struggles and Successes in Rebuilding Communities and Forests

by Kusel, Jonathan; Belsky, Jill; Brendler, Thomas; Burns, Sam; Cestero, Barb; Gray, Gerry; Lange, Jonathan; Lavigne, Peter; McDonald, Kimberly; McLain, Rebecca; Mitsos, Mary; Moote, Ann; Richard, Tim; Stein, Ellen; Sturtevant, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9780742525849
• ISBN10: 0742525848
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780585479910
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-04
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

A collection of stories about thirteen communities in the United States in their efforts to protect and restore community forests. It explores the struggles and opportunities faced by people as they work to invest in natural capital, reverse decades of poor forest practices, tackle policy gridlock, and address community as well as ecological health. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Foreword by William R. Burch Jr.	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Jonathan Kusel
PART I: INVESTING IN NATURAL CAPITAL, INVESTING IN COMMUNITY
1 Linking Water Quality and Community Well-Being in a Forested Watershed	3	(24)
Gerald J. Gray
2 Against the Odds: (Re)Building Community through Forestry on the Hoopa Reservation	27	(28)
Mark Baker
3 Revolutionizing County Forest Management in Minnesota: Aitkin County and SmartWood Certification	55	(34)
Peter Lavigne
PART II: FROM PROCESS TO PRACTICE
4 Catron County, New Mexico: Mirroring the West, Healing the Land, Rebuilding Community	89	(28)
Sam Burns
5 From "Them" to "Us": The Applegate Partnership	117	(18)
Victoria E. Sturtevant and Jonathan I. Lange
6 Waiting and Seeing in Coos County: The Promises of Lake Umbagog	135	(14)
Thomas Brendler
7 Collaboration for Community and Forest Well-Being in the Upper Swan Valley, Montana	149	(22)
Barb Cestero and Jill M. Belsky
8 Revitalizing Baltimore: Urban Forestry at the Watershed Scale	171	(20)
Ann Moote
PART III: STEWARDING THE LAND
9 "Kicking Dirt Together" in Colorado: Community-Ecosystem Stewardship and the Ponderosa Pine Forest Partnership	191	(16)
Tim Richard and Ellen Stein
10 Western Upper Peninsula Forest Improvement District: Adding Value to a Working Landscape	207	(14)
Mary Mitsos
11 The Integration of Community Well-Being and Forest Health in the Pacific Northwest	221	(36)
Kimberly McDonald and Rebecca McLain
12 Community Forestry at the Urban-Rural Interface: The Beaver Brook Association and the Merrimack River Watershed	257	(24)
Peter Lavine
Conclusion	281	(4)
Jonathan Kusel
Index	285	(14)
About the Contributors	299