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Northeastern Area U&CF Update
Billy Terry, Assistant Director, Cooperative Fire, Cooperative Forest Management
Phillip Rodbell, Area Specialist, Urban and Community Forestry
Lisa Burban, Group Leader, St. Paul
Tom Dilley, Chicago Coordinator
Jill Johnson, Midwest Center
John Parry, Field Office Specialist
Anne Cumming, Field Office Specialist
Donna Murphy, MidAtlantic Center
Technology transfer responsibilities
Northeastern Area U&CF Update
Rodbell 2009 Highlights Washington Office Detail
USFS Representative to World Forestry Congress, Argentina
SMA Savannah
Indiana UF Council
National Partners Conference, Portland
APA Minneapolis
Urban & Community Forestry Strategy
Focus: “Sustain and Expand Urban Tree Cover”
Recognize need to collaborate better and seamlessly with Research, National Forests, and NAASF.
Internal sensing process across federal programs and initiatives to identify S&PF priority actions.
Next step will begin dialogue to identify shared priorities for 2011 and beyond
New Items in Financial Advice
Help communities improve resilience to climate change through UTC assessments, goal setting, and tree planting for: air and water quality
energy conservation and carbon sequestration
invasive species, fire, and storm resistance
green infrastructure and open space retention, and biomass utilization.
Make inventory data available for Pest Detection
Urban Pest Detection & Tree Inventory
iPed – UGA and Davey by June 2011 Beta version incorporated into i-Tree software package.
Development of new online and field-based training, diagnostic and information resource tools and materials.
Testing and refinement based on 6 field pilots.
UFORHIC – Purdue and Davey by August 2011 Confirming system requirements & defining data fields
Establishing access controls, conversion utilities, user interface
Citizen Science Monitoring – UVM by May 2010 Survey and Report on Best Practices
Begun developing training materials
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2009 CARS Results
USDA Forest ServiceUSDA Forest Service
Community Accomplishment Reporting Community Accomplishment Reporting System FY 2009 SummarySystem FY 2009 Summary
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2009 CARS Results
Measuring Program Success
Long-term goal: to improve condition & extent of tree and forest cover in cities, suburbs, & towns nationwide : By assisting communities with developing their own
local, sustainable UCF programs
By encouraging communities to adopt and support the 4 key program elements that define managing and developing communities
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2009 CARS Results
Measuring Program Success
Developing communities have achieved at least one of the key program elements: Hired or contracted for professional U&CF staff
Have adopted ordinances or policies that focus on planting, protecting and maintaining their forest
Have an active community advocacy or advisory organization
Developed and implemented a forest management plan
Managing communities have achieved all four of the key program elements
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2009 CARS Results
Nationally, UCF Program Outcomes for FY 2009 showed that...
Of the U.S. population that live in cities, suburbs & towns that states report have potential to use U&CF Program resources
42% lived in communities that were fully managing their urban and community trees and forests, (NA = 49%) and
34% lived in communities that were developing programs to manage their urban and community trees and forests (NA = 27.5%).
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2008 CARS Results
Distribution of Population Living in Managing and Developing Communities
U.S. Total = 173.4 million
Progress 2006 - 2008
Number of communities that progressed from Developing to fully Managing over three years (In 2009, NA had additional 86 )
Population of communities that progressed from Developing to fully Managing over three years (NA had additional 2.1 million)
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2009 CARS Results
Differences in FY’08 & FY’09 Reports
In FY 2009, 6,853 communities received assistance nationally, 286 less than FY 2008
In NA, 3,766 communities (55% of national total) received assistance in FY 2009, 46 more than FY 2008
In FY 2009, States reported providing assistance to173.4 million people living in communities compared to 177.6 million in FY 2008 (a 4.1 million decline nationally, but only 186,000 decline in NA states)
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2009 CARS Results
FY 2009 Community Financial Assistance Reported in CARS Nationally:
$16.6 million in core U&CF funds to states
$4.3 million distributed to communities (26%)
$60.0 million in state and local match (CA = $20M)
$3.62 for each federal dollar invested
NA:
$5.3 million in core U&CF funds to states
$1.6 million distributed to communities (29%)
$14 million in state and local match (NJ = $7M)
$2.73 for each federal dollar invested
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2009 CARS Results
FY2009 State Subgrants
$4.3 million (26%) distributed by states as subgrants
Percent of UCF funds awarded by category
USDA Forest ServiceUrban and Community Forestry Program – FY 2009 CARS Results
In Summary, FY 2009 CARS Results Confirm the UCF Program:
The national program reached 75% of U.S. population living in cities, suburbs & towns with potential to use U&CF Program resources (76.5% in NA)
42% of reported national population now live in managing communities (49% in NA)
The national program reached more than 6,850 communities 55% of which are in NA
Federal investments in NA are leveraged nearly 3:1
NA Rocks!
On the Horizon
State Resource Strategies in place for FY2011
Complete regional summary of state strategies by Program
Review current and new S&PF performance measures, and draft national business rules
Support activities of the Sustainable Urban Forest Coalition
Continue successful technology transfer