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Powerpoint presentations

"Forest at work: A case study of conservation and sustainable forestry in the Northern Forest" powerpoint presentation on results from interviews about the Finch Pruyn project (Neugarten, for Rural Sociological Society annual meeting, August 2010)

"Forest at work: A case study of conservation and sustainable forestry" powerpoint presentation on results from interviews about the Finch Pruyn project (Neugarten, for Adirondack Research Consortium annual conference, Lake Placid, May 2010)

"Human Nature: Incorporating people into biodiversity conservation at The Nature Conservancy" powerpoint presentation on socioeconomic implications of the Finch Pruyn project (Neugarten, for Department of Natural Resources weekly seminar series, March 2010)

"Looking beyond the “win-win-win:” Experiments in public-private resource management" powerpoint presentation highlighting case studies of monitoring of working forests (Neugarten, Wolf, and Stedman, for the Department of Natural Resources annual Research Symposium, January 2010)

"Cutting the trees to save the forest: The Finch Pruyn working forest" powerpoint presentation about the research project (Neugarten, Wolf and Stedman, for the Ecological Society of America's annual conference, August 2009)

"Criteria and indicators of sustainability for the former Finch Pruyn forest" powerpoint presentation (Neugarten, Wolf and Stedman, for the Adirondack Research Consortium Annual Meeting, May 2009)

"Cutting the trees to save the forest" older powerpoint presentation about the Cornell / Nature Conservancy research project (Neugarten, for the Cornell Department of Natural Resources Research Symposium, Jan 2009)

 "Heart of the Adirondacks" powerpoint presentation about the Finch Pruyn land acquisition, by The Nature Conservancy, 2007

The Nature Conservancy - resources and links

TNC web site notes - compilation document with information about the Finch Pruyn agreement, from the TNC web site(www.nature.org) (last updated Feb 2010)

TNC Finch Pruyn fact sheet - 3-page PDF fact sheet about the TNC purchase of the Finch, Pruyn lands (June 2007)

TNC Land for Sale Press Release - 5-page PDF describing 90,500 acres of the former Finch, Pruyn lands being offered for sale by TNC (August 2008)

TNC Land Sale Announcement - 3-page PDF document describing the sale of 92,000 acres of former Finch lands to ATP (March 2009)

TNC Protection Plan - 2-page PDF describing TNC's protection plan for former Finch lands (March 2009)

TNC Adirondacks Annual Report 2009 - PDF describing the Finch Pruyn project, campaign and other work in 2009

Adirondack Mountains Conservation Areas Plan - 85-page PDF describing TNC's conservation targets, threats, and strategies in the Adirondacks (2004)

Indicators of Sustainable Forestry

Montreal Process Criteria & Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests

Northern Forest Wealth Index

Forest Biodiversity Indicators Project - a web database of indicators for forest health, developed by the Manomet Center for Conservation Science, Maine

Sustainable Measures - a web site devoted to indicators of sustainable communities

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) - Principles & Criteria

Draft Miradi Conceptual Models (downloadable JPEG images)

Conceptual model - all factors

Conceptual model 1 - ecological factors

Conceptual model 2 - economic factors

Conceptual model 3 - social factors

Results chain 1- Forest Preserve

Results chain 2- Easement

Results chain 3 - Fiber Supply Agreement

Results chain 4 -  Certification

Results chain 5 - Local Towns

Results chain 6 - Snowmobile Trails

Results chain 7 - Monitoring & Adaptive Management

Finch Paper FSC Certification

from www.rainforest-alliance.org/forestry/public_documents_country.cfm?country=1

Finch Paper LLC (SW-FM/COC-000253)

Annual Audit 2006 (English) PDF - 81 KB

Assessment and Audits through 2005 (English) PDF - 116 KB

Audit 2005 (English) PDF - 112 KB

Annual Audit 2006 (English) PDF - 81 KB

Annual Audit 2007 (English) PDF - 63 KB

Reassessment 2008 (English) PDF - 200 KB

Annual Audit 2008 (English) PDF - 480 KB

Finch Paper SFI Certification

from http://www.sfiprogram.org/forest_certification_audits_reports.cfm

Audit May 2008 PDF

Finch Pruyn lands - Recreational Use 2001-2005

Data 2001-2005 and User Survey (PDF)

Summary document by R. Neugarten

Data and figures for report by R. Neugarten (Excel spreadhseet)

Open Space Institute - Finch Pruyn project profile

Land Trust Alliance - New York State Conservation Easement Tax Credit

April 2008 fact sheet

2006 Frequently Asked Questions

Adirondack Council - 2020 Vision Series

"The four-volume 2020 Vision series is designed as a plan for fulfilling the dream of creating a true Adirondack Park. It would ensure the preservation and ecological integrity of the Park for the year 2020 and beyond."

Other large working forests

Pingree Easement, Maine - 762,192 acre working forest conservation easement held by the New England Forestry Foundation on lands owned by the Pingree family.  Web site with maps, a copy of the conservation easement, and a lot of other information.

Montana Legacy Project - 2009 - 310,000 acres in MT (The Nature Conservancy, The Trust for Public Land, Plum Creek)

• Fact sheet
• Map of lands
• Map of disposition strategy

Champion Paper - Conservation Fund 1998 - 300,000 acres in NY, VT, and NH

Peck - Hull - Norcross, Massachusetts 1998-2000 - 8,500 acres

Upper St John River, Maine 1998 - 185,000 acres in Maine (International Paper, Nature Conservancy)

• 10 year update

Sable Highlands, New York 2005-2008 - 104,000 acres in the Adirondacks (Domtar, Nature Conservancy, state of New York, Lyme Timber)

• Fact sheet
• Interim Recreation Management Plan (DEC) - 35 page PDF

International Paper - Nature Conservancy, New York 2001 - 26,500 acres in the Adirondacks

International Paper - Nature Conservancy, Southeastern U.S. 2006 - 217,000 acres in 10 southeastern states

• map
• TNC press release
• Frequently asked questions (TNC website)

International Paper - Lyme Timber - Conservation Fund, New York 2006 - 275,000 acres in the Adirondacks

Rayonier - New York - Trust for Public Land 2006 - 51,000 acres in the Adirondacks

Monitoring of working forests

Comparative studies:

1. Survey of monitoring methods and effectiveness of 45 working forest conservation easements

• Block, A., K. Hartigan, R. Heiser,G. Horner, L. Lewandowski, J. Mulvihill- Kuntz, and S. Thorn. 2004. Trends in easement language and the status of current monitoring onworking forest conservation easements. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 270 pp. Available from http://www.snre.umich.edu/ecomgt//pubs/wfce/wfcecomplete.pdf (accessed October 2010).  

2. Survey of monitoring frequency of forestland conservation easements

• Mortimer, M.J., J.J. Richardson, Jr., J.S. Huff, and H.L. Haney, Jr. 2007. A Survey of Forestland Conservation Easements in the United States: Implications for Forestland Owners and Managers. Small-scale Forestry 6:35–47 

3. Survey of monitoring and information reporting of 22 certified forestry operations

• Hickey, G. M., J.L. Innes, R. Kozak, G.Q. Bull, I. Vertinsky. 2005. Monitoring and information reporting for sustainable forest management: An international multiple case study analysis. Forest Ecology and Management. 209: 237-259.  

4. Survey of monitoring of 174 "conservation forestry" properties owned or managed by The Nature Conservancy

• Project website: Sustainable Forestry: Synthesis of TNC Projects

Case studies:

1. The Nature Conservancy's International Paper (IP) Land Acquisition Monitoring Project

• Project workspace: International Paper Monitoring Project
• 2007 report,Appendices
• 2009 report
• 2010 report (Final), Appendices

2. Pingree Conservation Easement Monitoring Program

• Project website: Pingree Forest Partnership 
• Reed, F.C., S.A. Sader, and K. Ross. 2002 (?) Developing a stewardship protocol for the Pingree Forest Conservation Easement: Landscape-Scale Monitoring. New England Forestry Foundation. Groton, MA.
• Sader, S.A., K. Ross, F.C. Reed. 2002. Pingree forest partnership: Monitoring easements at the landscape level. Journal of Forestry. 100(3): 20-26

3. Northwest Forest Plan Monitoring Program

•  Project website: Northwest Forest Plan Interagency Regional Monitoring Program
• Charnley, S. 2006.The Northwest Forest Plan as a model for broad-scale ecosystem management: A social perspective. Conservation Biology. 20(2): 330-340.
• Rapp, Valerie. 2007. Northwest Forest Plan—the first 10 years (1994-2003): first-decade results of the Northwest Forest Plan. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-720. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 42 p.

4. Canadian Model Forest Network

• Project website: Canadian Model Forest Network 
• Beckley, T., J. Parkins, and R.C. Stedman. 2002.  Indicators of forest-community sustainability: The evolution of research. The Forestry Chronicle 78(5): 626-636.
• Parkins, J.R., R.C. Stedman, and J. Varghese. 2001.  Moving towards local-level indicators of sustainability in forest-based communities: A mixed-method approach. Social Indicators Research 56(1): 43-72.
• MacKendrick, N. A., and J. R. Parkins. 2004. Monitoring community sustainability in the Foothills Model Forest A 2001 census update. Social Science Research Group, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB. 77 pp.
• Gravelines, L., and A. Vasudevan. 2006. Socio Economic Indicators & Profile: An update for the Lake Abitibi Model Forest. Lake Atibiti Model Forest, Cochrane, ON. 63 pp.
• den Otter, M., and T. Beckley. 2002. This is paradise: Community sustainability indicators for the Western Newfoundland Model Forest. Canadian Forest Service, Fredericton, New Brunswick