Community-Owned Forests Library
| What
are Community Forests? Background information on community-based forestry |
Community
Forest News News articles on community forests and timberlands |
Community-Owned Forests Resources Reports on community-owned forests |
| Forest
Planning and Management Handbooks and manuals on forest management issues |
Engaging
the
Community Resources for successful community involvement |
Community-Owned
Forests Conference Presentations from conference held June 2005 |
| Tribal
Forestry Links and information on forests under tribal management |
Timberland
Ownership Resports on changes and trends in forest ownership |
Working
Forest Conservation Easements Information and reports |
Ensuring Sustainable Forestry Through Working Forest Conservation Easements in the Northeast
Perschel, Robert. June, 2006. The Forest Guild.
This report includes a survey of three working forest easements and evaluates how well each easement and its related documents ensures sustainable forestry. These three examples contain a number of key components that can be selectively combined to improve the next wave of easements.
Trends in Working Forest Conservation Easements
Lind, Brenda. April, 2001. Land Trust Alliance.
A report from the April 2001 meeting of the Land Trust Alliance Working Forest Conservation Easements Advisory Panel, discussing emerging WFCE trends and ongoing challenges, including forming complex partnerships with multiple parties in easement transactions, documenting and monitoring a forest’s multiple resources and managing public access on some working forestlands.
Working Forest Conservation Easements: A Primer for Forest Landowners
University of Maryland Cooperative Extension, 2002
Provides a short introduction to working forest conservation easements.
