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Challenges of Forest Governance:
A Perspective from the United
States
Sally Collins
Associate Chief,
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. family
Government
publication, 1930s:
“Forestry and
Permanent Prosperity”
Changing values/landscapes
“Make love, not
lumber”
--1970s protest sign
Wilderness Act, 1964
National Environmental
Policy Act, 1969
National Forest
Management Act, 1976
etc.…
Hard times
TV, Internet, i-Pods,
videogames,
chatrooms,
MySpace …
Declining forest health
Second family
77% of forestland
worldwide is under
government control
Deforestation/erosion
Global market for wood
End consumers
(e.g., U.S.)
Value added
(e.g., China)
Raw log suppliers
(e.g., Indonesia)
Climate change
Area burned,
United States
(millions of
acres)
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1965
1975
1985
1995
2006
Rural poverty
Forestland ownership
Worldwide
United States
12%
33%
11%
58%
9%
77%
Federal
Government
State/local
Community/indigenous
Individual/firm
Individual/firm
Children’s connection to nature
Loss of ecosystem services
(per Millennium Ecosystem Assessment)
Type of service
Fresh water
Capture fisheries
Wild foods
Genetic resources
Air quality regulation
Erosion control
Water purification
Pollination
etc.
Global status
Global interdependence
Global markets
for wood
Global climate
change
Global resource
degradation
(loss of ecosystem services)
Global poverty
Aldo Leopold
“That land is a community is
the basic concept of ecology,
but that land is to be loved
and respected is an extension
of ethics.”
Aldo Leopold
Wilderness,
New Mexico
Relationships to the land
“We abuse land because we regard
it as a commodity belonging to us.
When we see land as a community
to which we belong, we may begin
to use it with love and respect.”
--Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949)
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Forest governance
Relationships are key
Global forestry
U.S. Forest Service technical assistance programs in
sustainable forestry
U.S. forest landownership
33%
Federal govt
State govt
Local govt
Private
58%
8%
1%
Strengthening relationships
Where should our focus be?
“For people to work for
conservation,
conservation must work
for people”