The Forestry Source - February 2013 - (Page 1) February 2013 • Vol. 18, No. 2 News for forest resource professionals published by the Society of American Foresters The Future of America’s Forests and Rangelands Assessment Examines Key Challenges for Forest Managers T H I S I S S U E SAF Leader Lab: Shoveling smoke: What every forester should know about teams and teamwork Like shoveling smoke, a team leader’s job is a tricky business, so here are some key things to do in three different situations you are likely to face. Page 7 Society Affairs: National Capital SAF launches 2013 education program with agroforestry presentation by WRI fellow Chris Reij Reij discussed re-greening activities in the West African Sahel and potential scaling-up strategies for agroforestry programs across the continent. Page 9 Join the Discussion: How to engage with fellow SAF members using LinkedIn LinkedIn is best described as a professional networking site, and one of its tools that is especially relevant to SAF is its “Groups” feature. Page 10 Best Practices: Thinning project improves neglected Iowa forest A recently completed thinning project on a 90-acre woodland in Clarke County, Iowa, will provide many benefits to a stand of hickory, oak, and walnut trees that had been neglected for decades. Page 12 Tax law update: Changes that affect forest landowners As part of the deal to avert the “fiscal cliff,” Congress enacted sweeping new tax laws. Here are some highlights of the new tax provisions that particularly affect forest landowners and related businesses. Page 13 GIS for Foresters: Crowdsourcing with ArcGIS Online for natural resources managment With the development of web-based GIS technology, it is now possible to collect spatial information through crowdsourcing, even for general GIS users. Page 14 By Linda L. Langner he US Forest Service’s most recent Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment examines the ways expanding population, increasing urbanization, changing land-use patterns, and climate change could profoundly impact the nation’s forests and rangelands in the future. The assessment’s projections are influenced by a set of scenarios with varying assumptions about US population and economic growth, global population and economic growth, global wood energy consumption, US land-use change, and climate change from 2010 to 2060. The assessment is available at treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/41976. The RPA Assessment is mandated by the Forest and Rangelands Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, which requires the Forest Service to prepare an assessment of renewable natural resources on the nation’s forests and rangelands every 10 years. Although the report is titled the “2010 RPA Assessment,” the research underlying this report was conducted from 2005 to 2011. The report was prepared in 2012, completed in August 2012 for printing, and officially released on December 18, 2012. The research was conducted by a team of Forest Service scientists and their partners at universities, other agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Here is a summary of the team’s key findings: T Figure 1. Projected cumulative change in the area of major nonfederal land uses in the conterminous United States, by Resources Planning Act Assessment (RPA) scenario, 2010–2060. Land development will continue to threaten the integrity of natural ecosystems. Land development already strongly influences natural ecosystems. Whereas urbanization tends to convert ecosystems, low-density development in more rural landscapes tends to fragment natural ecosystems. Population and economic growth will fuel the expansion of developed and urban land uses, with increases ranging from 41 percent to 77 percent (see Figure 1). Forestland is most affected by urbanization By Joseph M. Smith, Source staff writer n 2005, the US Forest Service released the documentary The Greatest Good as part of its centennial celebration. I found it to be a remarkable film for several reasons, not the least of which was that it was the first time I had ever seen forestry depicted on a screen, big or small. Since then, I’ve written three articles about the use of documentaries to create awareness of what forestry is, what foresters do, and I (See “Films” page 4) Industry News 9 Society Affairs 12 Science and Tech 17 Continuing Ed. Calendar 18 Classifieds An elm-lined street in St. Paul, Minnesota, before most of the trees were killed by Dutch elm disease. By Steve Wilent, Source editor orestry schools always try to give their students a feel for working in the real world, through field trips to working forests, inviting foresters to the classroom, and field projects involving real-world management activities. None of this, however, compares to in-thewoods, on-the-job experience. A forester’s first job out of forestry school is, in many ways, just another stage in his or her education, but one that comes with a paycheck. Neil Kissler graduated from Oregon State University’s College of Forestry in 2009 with a B.S. in Forest Operations Management, along with a minor in business management. Kissler was one of the first graduates of this relatively new degree program from the college’s Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, which adds business operations to traditional forest-management studies. Today, Kissler is more than three years into his first job at Longview Timber LLC, a Longview, Washington, company F The American Elm: Majestic, Imperiled, Renewed Daniel C. Smith’s relationship with the American elm began when he was a boy at his grandparents’ house in Iowa. Letters 5 Forestry Career Check: Neil Kissler, Three Years after Graduation why. This article is about two more forestry-related films that recently came to my attention. Editor’s Notebook 2 (See “Assessment” page 3) Films Document the Return of the American Elm and the Need for Active Management in Ponderosa Pine Forests D E PA RT M E N T S 2 and developed uses, with the greatest losses in the South, where losses could reach 21 million acres by 2060. Rangelands are projected to decline at a slower rate and may be more threatened by low-density development and fragmenting agents such as oil and gas development. The loss of forestland contributes to reduced growth in total forest inventory, reduced forest carbon stocks, and reduced tree canopy cover. Forest inventory vol- Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service,bugwood.org.org I N (See “Career Check” page 5) http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/41976 Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of The Forestry Source - February 2013 The Forestry Source - February 2013 Contents Editor’s Notebook Letters Industry News SAF Leader Lab: Shoveling smoke: What every forester should know about teams and teamwork Society Affairs: National Capital SAF launches 2013 education program with agroforestry presentation by WRI fellow Chris Reij Society Affairs Join the Discussion: How to engage with fellow SAF members using LinkedIn Best Practices: Thinning project improves neglected Iowa forest Science and Tech Tax law update: Changes that affect forest landowners GIS for Foresters: Crowdsourcing with ArcGIS Online for natural resources managment Continuing Ed. 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