PPF Publications

Forest Fragmentation Conference 2000

NATIONAL TRENDS IN PRIVATE LANDS
Moderator: Tim Warman, American Farmland Trust

Ralph Alig - USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
"Fragmentation and national trends in private forest lands: preliminary findings from the 2000 renewable resource planning act assessment"

Tom Peterson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
"Private working lands: loss trends and causes"

Neil Sampson, The Sampson Group, Inc.
"Forestland changes and loss"

REGIONAL TRENDS IN PRIVATE FOREST LANDS
Moderator: Ted Beauvais, USDA Forest Service

South
Bettina Ring and Ed Macie - Virginia Department of Forestry, USDA Forest Service
"Assessing the southern wildland-urban interface"

Northeast
Thomas L. Schmidt and Willliam H. McWilliams - USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry
"Current status and trends of privately owned northern USA timberlands" -

Mid-Atlantic
Rick Cooksey - USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry
"Forest fragmentation in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed"

West
Jeffrey Kline - USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
"Historic and projected trends in private forest land in the western US"

IMPACTS OF FRAGMENTATION
Ecological Impacts
Moderator: Bill Horvath, National Association of Conservation Districts

Bob DeGroot - Maryland Alliance for Greenway Improvement and Conservation
"Reconnecting the environment"

R.A. Lancia - North Carolina State University
"Avian diversity and productivity on an intensively managed industrial forest in South Carolina: the Westvaco example"

Stevens Heckscher - Natural Lands Trust
"Biodiversity declining: structural and compositional changes in a Pennsylvania piedmont forest"

Mary Ann Fajvan - West Virginia University
"Effects of harvesting practices on the sustainability of non-industrial private forests"

Economic Impacts
Moderator: Keith Argow, National Woodland Owner's Association

Andrew J. Londo - Mississippi State University Extension Service Forestry Department
"Impacts of forest fragmentation on non-industrial private forest landowners in Mississippi"

Roy Fraser - West Virginia University
"Mid-sized forest landowners in West Virginia"

Jeffrey Kline - USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
"Urbanization impacts on private forest conditions in Western Oregon"

Thom J. McEvoy - University of Vermont
"Forest stewardship includes estate planning for woodlands"

John Greene - USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
"The effect of the federal estate tax on nonindustrial private forest holdings in the U.S."

Social Impacts
Moderator: Larry Payne, USDA Forest Service

Jim Johnson, Virginia Tech
"Forest landowner attitudes toward cross boundary management"

John Schelhas, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
"Social issues related to forest fragmentation in the U.S. South: minority and limited resource landowners"

Mark A. Megalos, North Carolina Division of Forest Resources
"Promoting forest sustainability with incentives - how landowners rate the options"

Paul H. Gobster, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station
"Fragmentation of private forest lands in the Great Lakes: the effects of recreational resources"

METHODS OF UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUE
Social Dynamics and Changes
Moderator: Larry Biles, USDA Cooperative State, Research, Education and Extension Service

Mary Chapman - Forest Stewards Guild
"Foresters and Fragmentation: field-level perspectives on necessary policy action"

A.E. Luloff and J.C. Finley - Pennsylvania State University
"The social issues and impacts associated with land parcelization"

Beth E. Lachman, RAND
"Indicators improving decision making"

Bill Elmendorf, Pennsylvania State University
"Using key informant interviews to investigate open space conservation in the Spring watershed"

Steve Meachum - Washington Department of Natural Resources
"Logging with lots of neighbors - managing a homeowners association forest"

Land use dynamics and change
Moderator: Rita Schoeneman, USDA Forest Service

Sayeed Mehmood - Auburn University
"Cause of forest fragmentation"

Alfredo B. Lorenzo - Southern University
"A novel method for analyzing forest fragmentation in urbanizing communities"

John Wolf - Maryland Department of Natural Resources
"Maryland's strategic forest lands assessment: an integrated place-based approach to identifying a sustainable forest resource base"

Sally Butler - USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
"Identifying potential forested riparian restoration sites in heterogeneous New england watersheds"

Thomas E. Worthley and Sandy Prisloe - University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System
"Buried in data layers? Making GIS forest gragmentation data useful in multi-stakeholder watershed planning efforts"

Economic Dynamics and Change
Moderator: Brad Williams, American Forest and Paper Association

"Open spaces and municipal finances - do they mix?" - David Davidson and Keith Ross,
Town of Wapole, Massachusetts
New England Forest Foundation

Bernard J. Lewis, University of Missouri
"The chip mill experience in Missouri: Potential impacts on the long-term sustainability of Missouri's private forests"

Keville Larson - Larson & McGowin, Inc.
"Forestland fragmentation in perspective"

Sarah Thorne, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
"An analysis of the role of New Hampshire's forest land base in supporting a sustainable forestry economy"

Janaki R.R. Alavalapati - University of Florida
"Analysis of 'paying for public goods' approach to limit urban sprawl and private forest fragmentation"

Andy Egan, University of Maine
"Forest practices on private forests: lessons from the Northeastern US"

SOLUTIONS AND SUCCESS STORIES
Private land conservation solutions
Moderator: Michael Jacobson, Pensylvania State University

Chris Schnepf - University of Idaho Cooperative Extension System
"Reconsidering approaches to owners of fragmented forests"

Harold L. Olinger - Forest Landowners Association
"Reaching the other 95%"

Juan Carlos Cervantes - University of Minnesota
"Sustaining nonindustrial private forestlands: issues and opportunities"

Constance Best - The Pacific Forest Trust
"A new strategy for conserving private U.S. forests"

Marketplace solutions
Moderator: Steve Jarvis, Forest Resources Association, Inc.

Kathryn Fernholz - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Community Forestry Resource Center (CFRC)
"Initiatives in forest owner cooperation"

Kent Gliges - Center for Compatible Economic Development, The Nature Conservancy
"The Forest Bank: an approach to conserving private forestland"

Brad Williams - American Forest and Paper Association
"Sustainable forestry initiative (SFI) Program of the American Forest & Paper Association"

Donald Last - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and 1000 Friends of Wisconsin
"Implications of Wisconsin's (and other states) smart growth initiatives on Sound Forest Land Management"

Public Policy Solutions
Moderator: Doug Williams, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

Robert A. Tufts - Auburn University
"Using business entities to minimize fragmentation"

Theodore W. Beauvais - USDA Forest Service
"The role of the Forest Legacy Program in preventing fragmentation of forest ownerships"

Doris Krahn - Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
"Ontario's managed forest tax incentive program"

Marian Rossler Honeczy - Maryland Department of Natural Resources
"Maryland's forest conservation, protection and reforestation programs"

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Moderator: Neil Sampson, The Sampson Group

Ralph Alig, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
C.P. Patrick Reid, University of Arizona
Lester DeCoster, The DeCoster Group

POSTERS
Nick Motta, John Markovich, Stacy Miller, Jim Stasz - Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Prince George's County Planning Department, Countywide Planning Division, Environmental Planning Section
"Woodland conservation strategy in Prince George's County, a comparative analysis of urban, suburba and rural areas"

Marian Rossler Honeczy and Jonathan W. Chapman - Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Forest, Wildlife & Heritage Service, Forest Service
"Forest conservation through the Maryland Forest Conservation Act"

Paul H. Gobster and Robert G. Haight - USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station
"Landscape change in the north central states: an integrated research and development program"

Kier Klepzig - USDA Forest Service
"Invasive insects: threats to forest sustainability, opportunities for forest protection"

Gary Micsky - Penn State Cooperative Extension, Mercer County, American Tree Farm System, Mercer County Woodland Owners Association
"Sustaining private forests in the 21st century: obstacles and opportunities involving youth"

Nadine Block - Pinchot Institute
"Industrial Timberland Divestitures and Investments: opportunities and challenges in forestland conservation"

J. Christopher Haney, Carol R. Foss, Geetha, M. Jayabose and Cindy DeGrood - The Wilderness Society
"Measuring forest fragmentation at multiple spatial sclaes: evaluating indicator accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity in regional assessments"

Mike Majeski - USDA Forest Service, S&PF
"Backyard woods camping"

Susan Moore - North State Forestry Consulting Co.
"Forest Stewards Guild"

Anna Barrios - American Farmland Trust
"Keep America growing: balancing working lands and development"

Jenni O'Brian - The Conservation Fund
"The Conservation Fund"

USDA Forest Service
"Forest Legacy Program"

American Forests
"Global Releaf"