group presentation katrina cortez (final revision)
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Community forestry involves local communities playing a role in the management and use of nearby forest resources. It aims to provide economic, social, and environmental benefits to the community from local forests, whether public, private, or somewhere in between. Community forestry seeks to ensure local access to forest benefits and resources, as well as meaningful participation in decision making. It also focuses on conservation and restoration of forest resources to protect them for community use.
group presentation katrina cortez (final revision)
- 2. What is Community Forestry? Community forestry is used to describe the efforts by communities – those united by a common interest or by a sense of place – to recognize and take advantage of the economic, social, and environmental opportunities afforded by their local forest resource, whether it is in public or private ownership, or somewhere in between.
- 3. ….. What? Community forestry is used to describe the efforts by communities – those united by a common interest or by a sense of place – to recognize and take advantage of the economic, social, and environmental opportunities afforded by their local forest resource, whether it is in public or private ownership, or somewhere in between. In simpler terms, community forestry is when the local community plays a significant role in forest management and land use decision making by them in the facilitating support of the government.
- 4. Why is it important? Community Forestry is important because it is the nearby communities that will suffer the most damage from resource degradation.
- 5. What are the benefits of having trees? Trees provide numerous environmental social and economic benefits for people. Such as….. Improvement of air and water quality (reduction of pollutants)
- 6. What are the benefits of having trees? Trees provide numerous environmental social and economic benefits for people. Such as….. Reduction of Flooding
- 7. What are the benefits of having trees? Trees provide numerous environmental social and economic benefits for people. Such as….. Reduction of Cooling & Heating energy needs
- 9. Community forestry is deeply concerned with how benefits from forest resources, including timber and nontimber products, jobs and opportunities for value-added processing, are distributed. Community forestry seeks to ensure that local people have access to a portion of the benefits flowing from nearby forests. Residents have access to the land and its resources
- 10. Recognizing that neighboring communities stand to suffer most from resource degradation, community forestry aims to provide local people with the meaningful role in forest decision making. Residents participate in decisions concerning the forest.
- 11. In the developing world, community forestry programs have focused on areas where the balance between subsistence cultures and the surrounding forests has been upset by resource depletion and resulting social decline; in such places, the first job is conservation and restoration. Similarly, in the United States, community forestry begins with protecting and restoring forest resources. The community begins by protecting and restoring the forest
- 12. Partners in Community Forestry National Conference http://www.arborday.org/shopping/pcf/2013/index.cfm USDA Forestry Service – Community Forestry Program http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/coop/programs/loa/cfp.shtml