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Conserving Working Landscapes: Why Collaboration Matters
Susan Charnley, US Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Portland, OR
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Working landscapes
• Places where people make a living by turning natural resources into products
– grass → meat, wool
– trees → wood products
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Working landscapes are important because the help provide…
• Biodiversity conservation
• Ecosystem services
• Products most people use
• Connections between people and nature
• Livelihoods
• Open space, recreation
• Social and cultural values
Mendocino Redwood Co.
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The Problem
• Private working lands
– sold to new owners (amenity values)
– converted to other land uses (development)
• Public lands
– productive uses declining
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• Why is collaboration critical for conserving the economic and ecological health of working forests and rangelands in the American West?
Wallowa Resources
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Reason 1: The West is comprised of many mixed-ownership landscapes
Keith Olsen
Lake & Klamath Counties, OR
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Reason 2: Public, private, and tribal lands in the West are ecologically interdependent
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Natural disturbances cross land ownership boundaries
Nick Norton
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• Plant & animal species and habitat span public and private ownerships
– Over half of the species on the federal endangered species list have more than 80% of their habitat on nonfederal lands
Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
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Location, location, location
• ~ 50% of western lands are in private ownership
• These lands are often at lower elevations in places having higher biodiversity, better water, more fertile & productive soils
Public www.oswa.org Private
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Ecological heterogeneity → ecological resilience
Oregon Coast Range
Ownership Forest cover type
Federal (25%)
Mature forest dominant, low diversity, large forest patches
State (12%)
Moderate diversity, moderate connectivity
Private industrial (41%)
Young forest dominant, low diversity, large forest patches
Private nonindustrial (22%)
High diversity, high fragmentation
Spies et al. 2007
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Reason 3: Public, private, and tribal lands in the West are economically interdependent
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Number of western mills, 1972-2007
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Richard Haynes
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Wood products industry employment
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Mill location
• Remaining mills are concentrated along major transportation corridors
Jean Daniels
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Saw-mills
Ply-wood
Chip-ping
Post & pole
Pulp Resi-duals
Other whole log
Other Total
E OR (2012)
14
2
8
4
7
5
5
45
E WA (2010)
7
1
3
3
14
Mill infrastructure in E OR & E WA
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USFS Timberland
Private Timberland
% Supply, Federal
% Supply, nonfederal
Eastern OR (2012)
67% 29% 25% 75%
Eastern WA (2010)
40%
29% private 19% tribal 10% state
11% 48% private 21% tribal 17% state
Timberland ownership & supply in E OR & E WA
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When local mill infrastructure fails…
• Federal agencies are challenged to achieve forest restoration goals
• Private corporate owners may sell timberlands
• Family forest owners lose access to markets for timber produced from their lands
• Forest-based jobs disappear
Paige Fischer
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Ranching
• Many ranchers practice transhumance between biomes and land ownerships
• Over 5,000 ranchers in the West depend on summer range that is managed by the government
Diana Hunter
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• Southern Rocky Mountains
– 48 counties in CO, WY, NM
– 1,456 ranches on 4.69 million acres of private ranchlands, associated with
– 2,217 federal grazing allotments on 14.1 million acres of USFS and BLM lands
Mike Wisdom
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So now what?
• What did we learn from local-level collaborative groups about what made working landscape conservation work?
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No cookie-cutter approach
• Conservation happens through trial and error; there is no cookie cutter approach
• Different strategies work in different places
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Common characteristics
• Individuals who have long-term vision and commitment to process and place
• Innovation, flexibility, experimentation
• Persistence despite setbacks
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• Ability to combine multiple funding sources or diversify revenue streams
• Strategic alliances from the local to the national level
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Multiple conservation tools
and strategies may be needed
Swan Valley, MT
• Tried, with no success – Land exchange
– Land use planning regs
• Tried, with some success – Create community forest
– Conservation easements
• Tried, with major success – Land acquisition
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Collaboration across boundaries
is important for working landscape conservation and landscape-scale
natural resource management!