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Kevin Birch Planning Coordinator

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Management at Different Scales

Oregon Department of Forestry


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y What We’ll Cover

• Why Use C&I’s of Sustainability

• Sustainability as Part of the Policy and

Vision for Oregon’s Forests

• Using the Framework at Different Scales

• Examples

• Summary


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y Sustainability is a Unifying Theme that resonates with the public

• “Sustainability” is defined as:

“Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland Commission Report)


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y There is Power in the Ideas and Language of Sustainability

• We can significantly change the dynamics of confrontation by latching onto some of the sustainable forestry ideas being developed nationally and internationally.

• Sustainability affects public values both in terms of opinion and behavior.


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• The Department and Board’s work

• Summary


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y Developing a Policy for Oregon’s Forestland that Includes

Sustainability

Oregon Board of Forestry Strategic Planning -- The Forestry

Program for Oregon


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y Sustainability as Part of the Vision for Oregon’s Forests

• Oregon’s forests provide a sustainable flow of goods, values, and services

• Landowners willingly investing to provide this array

• The public understands and accepts their responsibility


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Incorporating Sustainability into Strategic Planning/Policy Making

• Criteria form the framework needed to organize forest issues

• Core indicators - a tool to evaluate conditions at the landscape level


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Montreal Process Criteria - Goals of sustainability and a way to organize issues

• Biological diversity• Productive capacity• Ecosystem health• Soil and water resources• Contribution to global carbon cycles• Socioeconomic benefits• Legal and institutional framework

USING THE FPFO AS A CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROCESS

FPFO Policy Formation

•Public dialogue to set goals•Ability to set measurable objectives

•Design programs/incentives as needed to achieve goals

Landscape Scale Assessments•Indicators of Sustainability•Examine forest conditions•Objective information•Model alternative policies•Evaluate progress to objectives

Goals (Criteria) of Sustainability

Maintain Biodiversity

Maintain Productive Capacity

Maintain Ecosystem Health

Conservation of Soil and Water

Maintain Global Carbon Cycles

Maintain Socio-economic benefits

Legal / Institutional Framework

Department Programs•Implement objectives•Address issues

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•Collect data on Indicators of Sustainability to examine effectiveness of policies at achieving goals•Collect data on agency performance measures to evaluate efficiency of program delivery

Other Programs•Coordinate with other agencies•Research•Economic Development•Certification


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• Examples

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INPUT/OUTPUT/OUTCOME LOGIC MODEL

High-level Outcomes –Measure progress toward goals (Indictors)

Agency Goals – Intermediate goals that build to High-Level

Outcomes

Outputs – Products or Services

Intermediate Outcomes – Portion of H-L Outcome under

your control

Objectives – Methods to achieve goals (Programs)

High Level Goal (Criterion)

Inputs – Time / $

Issues/Obstacles to Achieving

Goals (Agency Goals) Programs

•Maintain the size of the forest land base Land Use Planning Program

•Min Resource loss from fire Fire Protection Program

•Min Resource loss from insects and disease Forest Health Mgmt Program

•Prompt reforestation FPA Reforestation Rules

Vision•Landowners willingly invest

•Public Accepts their responsibility•Forests Providing a Sustainable Flow of Goods Values and Services

Vision•Landowners willingly invest

•Public Accepts their responsibility•Forests Providing a Sustainable Flow of Goods Values and Services

High Level Goals

(Criteria of Sustainability)

Maintain Biodiversity

Maintain Productive Capacity

Maintain Ecosystem Health

Conservation of Soil and Water

Maintain Global Carbon Cycles

Maintain Socio-economic benefits

Legal / Institutional Framework

Incorporating Sustainability

Objective - (Methods to achieve agency goals)

Support the use of the Statewide Land Use Planning Program as a critical tool to conserve Oregon’s forest land base.

Program

Oregon’s Land Use Planning Program

Incorporating Sustainability(Continued)

Program Action Items - (Outputs)•Actively participate in the development of land use plans and regulations at the state and local level.• Where an informed decision has been made to remove forestland from the base to accommodate growth, the Department will promote planning for those lands to assure the least possible impact to the productive capacity of the rest of the land base.

Issue/Agency Goal - Maintain the size of the forest land base

Goal / Criterion - Maintain Productive Capacity

Intermediate Outcomes - (Performance Measures) • The number of zone changes taking land out of forest uses• Acres of forestland converted to other uses


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yReality Check Using Core Indicators of Maintaining Productive Capacity (Timber)

• Indicators: (High Level Outcomes)– #10 Forestland available for timber

production– #11 Growing stock– #13 Timber harvest vs. sustainable

• Check on Agency Performance Measures– Provides additional information on land

converted to other uses– Coordinated with inventory information to

examine quality


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Monitoring and Evaluation

Indicator #10 Forestland available for timber production


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yForestland available for timber production (1000’s Acres of Private Land in W. OR)

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Wild. Forest

Wild. Forest 6266 6176 6139 6136

1973 1982 1994 2000

3Area Lost 3790

Planning Laws Passed

Plans Implemented

HB 3661 Changes


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Land Use Program Is Slowing Urban & Residential Conversion in Oregon

• Apples and Oranges comparison with other nearby states– Washington: 1982 - 1997 lost 262,800 (Best, 2002)

– California: 1982 -1997 lost 564,600 (Best, 2002)

– W. Oregon: 1982-2000 lost 40,000 (Lettman, 2002)

• Majority of development is occurring within planned areas - UGB’s and rural residential areas


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Policy Development

• Indicators– Broad set of data useful for a number of issues– Real time policy analysis


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y Core Indicators – Basic Data for Policy Development on Many Issues• Indicator #3 Area of Forestland in

Protected Categories– Forestland available for timber production– Wildlife habitat– Sustainable timber harvest levels– Values at risk from wildfire– Recreation


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• Examples

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C&I FrameworkUnifying Theme

Lessons fromNational & International Set Context for

Policy Decisions

Add Pieces TogetherHolistically

Multiple ProgramsWorking TowardCommon Goals

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C&I’s of Sustainability Provide:

• Framework - add pieces together holistically - multiple ownerships and management objectives

• Common language to discuss forest conditions and social responsibilities

• National/International acceptance and recognition


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Indictors

• Broad set of data useful for a number of issues

• Real time policy analysis• Monitor & evaluate


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y Maintain the Social License to Practice Forestry• Power in the language of sustainability

– Framework is broad and inclusive– Public dialogue about issues and goals

• Tell the “Stories” of Sustainability in a language the public understands– Answer the question about “How are we

doing?”

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