Program Expansions A Brief History

1. Program ExpansionsA Brief History • Early 20th Century – Timberland • End of 20th Century – Forestland • In the 21st Century – • Today – Land Use Change • Tomorrow – Treed Lands? • Day After Tomorrow – All Veg?

2. Program ExpansionsThe Broader the look; the Better the Parts Timberland to Forestland Timberland; Reserved Forestland; Unproductive Forestland Forestland plus Land Use Change Forestland Urban Agriculture Rangeland Water Land Use Change ≠ NO Trees

3. Trees Falling thru Gap Not an Acre Not 120’ Wide Wrong Land Use

4. Why Fill the Gap All trees: • Sequester Carbon • Provide Habitat • Filter Water • Stabilize Soils • Provide Biomass • Enhance Biodiversity • Create Jobs Some trees: • Increase crop yields • Protect livestock • Conserve energy • Improve health and safety Handy trees should be tally trees!

5. Filling the GapOne Constituency at a Time • Trees on Non-Forestlands • Urban • Agricultural “Working Trees” • Riparian • Rangelands

6. Filling the GapOne Constituency at a Time • New Constituency = Support • New Support = Funding • Direct • Indirect • New Funding = Filling the Gap WITHOUT compromising the base forestland mission

7. Filling the GapUrban • Lot’s of Statewide Urban Pilots • IN, WI, TN, CO, WA, OR, CA, HI, AK • Confirmed we can • Quantified urban forests • Confirmed value and benefits • Not resulted in strategic national investment • Maybe the scale is wrong??? • FIA scale.. urban forests of USA • Urban Constituency Scale…my city

8. Filling the GapUrban Vibrant Cities Initiative (http://vcuf.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/vcuf_report.pdf) • Urban areas - where most people live (84%) and vote! • Urban areas viewed as ecosystems • People, gray and green infrastructure intermix/interact • Urban forests key component of green infrastructure • Improving urban forests key to vibrant urban environments “At the root of every vibrant city is an urban forest” • “Ecosystem” key to scale issue • Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas • Scale at which FIA can contribute

9. Filling the GapUrban 12 Vibrant City Recommendations (Goals): • Create a national education and awareness campaign. • Foster urban forestry and natural resources stewardship and volunteerism. • Create sustainable jobs in urban forestry and green infrastructure. • Cultivate partnerships between public and private sectors. • Develop new public administration models for urban ecosystems. • Create comprehensive, multi-jurisdictional Urban Regional Natural Resource Plans. • Integrate federal agencies’ green infrastructure goals. • Establish energy efficiency programs that emphasize the use of trees. • Ensure equal access to urban forestry and green infrastructure resources. • Support collaborative urban ecosystem-focused research. • Encourage open access to and use of social assessment tools. • Establish national Vibrant Cities Standards.

10. Filling the GapUrban FIA contributions to 12 Vibrant City goals: • Baseline accounting of urban forests • Long-term monitoring of change in urban forests • Valuate urban forest benefits and services • Platform for sample intensification/augmentation • Nationally consistent methods and procedures • Data sharing and distribution tools • Green job opportunities

11. Filling the GapUrban FIA Benefits • Extends FIA to voting populace • Makes FIA key to their needs • Broadens support network • Parks and People Foundation • ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA • Chicago Wilderness • Tree Care Industry Association • Urban Greenspaces Institute • New York City Department of Parks & Recreation • Arbor Day Foundation • TreePeople, Inc. • Cascade Land Conservancy • Congress for New Urbanism • Trees Forever • Open Space Institute • International Society of Arboriculture • Sacramento Tree Foundation • Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition • New York Restoration Project • Society for Municipal Arborists • Alliance for Community Trees • National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council • Strategic urban forest inventory • Built one metro area at a time • Allows seamless urban to rural monitoring

12. Filling the GapUrban Other Logical Partner • Dave Nowak, FS R&D, NRS • Urban Forest Specialist • Established user base • Established partnerships • Does urban forest inventory for a living • Partner in all our urban pilots • Has developed software • I-Tree • Urban Forest Effects Model (UFORE) • Has read and emulated the little green book • Established processing engine • Established reporting format

13. Filling the GapUrban Pragmatic Suggestion Nowak design Single 1/10th acre fixed Fast and efficient in cities FIA design Cluster of 4 - 1/6th acre fixed Clunky in cities

14. Filling the GapUrban Conceptual Partnering Model Staged Cooperation FIA Nowak Field Processing Prefield Analysis Distribution