Wildands and Woodlands Publications
Wildlands and Woodlands Vision 2005
Harvard Forest researchers proposed a vision for halting the recent sharp decline of forest cover in Massachusetts as an example of bold and practical conservation applicable to forest ecosystems in the Eastern United States.
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The size of the file is prohibitive to view with browser plug-in - Executive Summary - 2005 - 4 page summary of report.
Updates
Click below for brief updates on a myriad of activities initiated by Wildlands and Woodlands Partners in the areas of finance and policy, woodland councils and conservation partnerships.
- The Wildlands and Woodlands 2006 Update .
- The Wildlands and Woodlands 2008 Update .
Report on the Woodlands and Wildlands Conservation Finance Roundtable
A roundtable discussion was held in April 2006 at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, with participation from conservation finance experts from around the United States, to identify and explain in some depth the most promising new approaches to forest conservation finance. The result of that effort is summarized in the Report on the Woodlands and Wildlands Conservation Finance Roundtable , published in October 2006.
Wildland and Woodlands Related Publications
Acting Locally - A Working Model
David Foster, Director of Harvard Forest and Bill Labich, Regional Conservationist of Highstead lay out the arguments and successes of creating a working model to think globally while acting locally. For New England and most of the eastern United States, there is a direct link between effective forest protection and management and the global environment. As a consequence of sub-continental reforestation and growth since the 19th Century, residents across this region have a second chance to determine the fate of their natural landscape. The forests that blanket this region are young and growing rapidly, storing globally important amounts of carbon and thereby thwarting global climate change. Protecting these forests and managing them to produce products and store additional carbon will bring immense benefits to local communities and the world. The Wildlands and Woodlands proposal to protect and manage 50% of southern New England in forests provides a mechanism for achieving such ambitious local and global goals. See the entire chapter below.
Foster, D.R. and W. Labich. 2008. A Wildland and Woodland Vision for the New England Landscape: Local Conservation, Biodiversity and the Global Environment. Pp 155-175. In R.A. Askins et al. (eds.), Saving Biological Diversity. Springer.