The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. This book examines the responses of forest communities to changing forest values, changing federal policy, timber industry restructuring, and concerns about forest health. Focusing primarily on the United States, the book examines the ways that social scientists work with communities - their role in facilitating social learning, informing policy decisions, and contributing to community well-being.As dependency on timber extraction is no longer a universal characteristic of forest communities, residents are increasingly diverse in the cultural, economic, and aesthetic values that they attribute to forests. Remoteness also no longer applies, as technology and workforce mobility increasingly connect rural to urban places. And forest communities are more than just full-time residents; they include seasonal workers, part-year vacation residents, and urban dwellers who regularly return to forests for recreation. Forest communities are both place and interest-based; they are linked geographically, culturally, and economically to forest lands, and also politically. "Forest Community Connections" synthesizes available research on the changing characteristics of forest communities. Bringing perspectives from sociology, anthropology, political science, and forestry, the authors examine the factors that contribute to strong and resilient connections between communities and forests and those that undermine them. They explore a range of management issues, including wildfire, forest restoration, labor force capacity, and the growing demand for forest amenities, and consider a range of governance structures to positively influence the well being of both communities and forests, including collaboration and community-based forestry.
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
1 Community and Forest Connections: Continuity and Change by Victoria E. Sturtevant and Ellen M. Donoghue 3
Part I Understanding Forest Communities
2 Social Assessment of Forest Communities: For Whom and for What? by Victoria E. Sturtevant and Ellen M. Donoghue 27
3 Socioeconomic Monitoring and Forest Management by Susan Charnley 45
4 Engaging Communities Through Participatory Research by Jennifer S. Arnold and Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez 66
Part II Communities in the Context of Emerging and Persistent Forest Management Issues
5 Evolving Interdependencies of Community and Forest Health by Mark Nechodom and Dennis R. Becker and Richard Haynes 91
6 Communities and Wildfire Policy by Toddi A. Steelman 109
7 Amenity Migration, Rural Communities, and Public Lands by Linda E. Kruger and Rhonda Mazza and Maria Stiefel 127
8 Integrating Commercial Nontimber Forest Product Harvesters into Forest Management by Eric T. Jones and Kathryn A. Lynch 143
9 Job Quality for Forest Workers by Cassandra Moseley 162
Part III Communities and Forest Governance
10 Institutional Arrangements in Community-based Forestry by Cecilia Danks 185
11 Family Forest Owners by John C. Bliss 205
12 Creating Community Forests by Jill M. Belsky 219
13 Collaborative Forest Management by Margaret Ann Moote 243
Conclusion
14 Taking Stock of Community and Forest Connections by Ellen M. Donoghue and Victoria E. Sturtevant 263
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