Spring Semester 2013

1. Community
Forestry
Bio 1310
Katrina Cortez

2. What is Community Forestry?
 Community forestry is used to describe
the efforts by communities – those united
by a common interest or by a sense of
place – to recognize and take
advantage of the economic, social, and
environmental opportunities afforded by
their local forest resource, whether it is in
public or private ownership, or
somewhere in between.

3. ….. What?
 Community forestry is used to describe
the efforts by communities – those united
by a common interest or by a sense of
place – to recognize and take
advantage of the economic, social, and
environmental opportunities afforded by
their local forest resource, whether it is in
public or private ownership, or
somewhere in between.
 In simpler terms,
community forestry is
when the local
community plays a
significant role in forest
management and
land use decision
making by them in the
facilitating support of
the government.

4. Why is it important?
 Community Forestry is important because
it is the nearby communities that will suffer
the most damage from resource
degradation.

5. What are the benefits of having trees?
 Trees provide numerous environmental
social and economic benefits for people.
 Such as…..
Improvement of
air and water
quality
(reduction of pollutants)

6. What are the benefits of having trees?
 Trees provide numerous environmental
social and economic benefits for people.
 Such as…..
Reduction of
Flooding

7. What are the benefits of having trees?
 Trees provide numerous environmental
social and economic benefits for people.
 Such as…..
Reduction of
Cooling
&
Heating
energy needs

8. How does
Community Forestry
work?

9.  Community forestry is deeply concerned with how
benefits from forest resources, including timber and
nontimber products, jobs and opportunities for
value-added processing, are distributed.
Community forestry seeks to ensure that local
people have access to a portion of the benefits
flowing from nearby forests.
Residents have access to the
land and its resources

10.  Recognizing that neighboring communities stand to
suffer most from resource degradation, community
forestry aims to provide local people with the
meaningful role in forest decision making.
Residents participate in decisions
concerning the forest.

11.  In the developing world, community forestry
programs have focused on areas where the
balance between subsistence cultures and the
surrounding forests has been upset by resource
depletion and resulting social decline; in such
places, the first job is conservation and restoration.
Similarly, in the United States, community forestry
begins with protecting and restoring forest
resources.
The community begins by protecting
and restoring the forest

12.  Partners in Community Forestry National Conference
http://www.arborday.org/shopping/pcf/2013/index.cfm
 USDA Forestry Service – Community Forestry Program
http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/coop/programs/loa/cfp.shtml