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

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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