Community-Based Forestry in the United States

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Community-Based Forestryin theUnited States

• a report from the
• U.S. Endowment for
• Forestry Communities

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Community-Based Forestryin theUnited States

• CBF Moving Forward

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Fertile Ground

• Growing visibility acceptance

• A real solution for the triple bottom line

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The Next DecadeCritical Objectives for CBF
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Critical Objectives for CBF

• Increase access to influence over forest
  resources forest management decisions

• Build create access to markets financial
  resources

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Critical Objectives for CBF

• Increase institutional leadership capacity

• Increase engagement of communities of color
  marginalized peoples

• Strengthen ties to land trust movement

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Critical Objectives for CBF

• Make policy frameworks at local, state federal
  levels more supportive and mutually reinforcing

• Demonstrate success at achieving environmental
  goals

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Getting to Scale
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Getting to Scale

• Increase engagement of communities of color
  marginalized peoples

• Expand monitoring, assessment research

• Support documentation of the principles
  practices of CBF

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Getting to Scale

• Increase institutional leadership capacity

• Continue support for higher capacity models

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Getting to Scale

• Share learning and knowledge widely make it
  accessible to CBF groups

• Seed new CBF efforts through early-stage
  investment

• Build broad public support for CBF