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Lessons from Ohio Interagency Forestry Team & Wayne National Forest Plan Assessment

Carrie Gilbert Forest Supervisor, Wayne National Forest 22 September 2020

Ohio Interagency Forestry Team Leadership

Forest Service Eastern Region

Ohio Interagency Forestry Team Members

• USDA
• Natural Resources

Conservation Service

• Forest Service State &

Private Forestry

• Forest Service Northern

Research Station

• Forest Service Wayne

National Forest

• Ohio Department of

Natural Resources

• Division of Forestry
• Division of Wildlife
• Forestry Cooperative

Extension

• Ohio State University
• Central State University

Forestry Team Origin and History

• 2000 Ohio first to use

EQIP for Forestry

• 2006 NRCS & Ohio Div. of

Forestry Partnership/Agreement

• 2007 National Joint

Forestry Team

• 2008 Ohio Joint Forestry

Team

• 2010 Two Chiefs’

Partnership Award

• 2015-2017 USDA

FS/NRCS Joint Chiefs’ Restoration Partnership for Collaborative Oak Management in SE Ohio

• 2018 Ohio Interagency

Forestry Team

• 2019 business plan

signed

• 2020 Joint Chiefs’ final

report posted www.fs.usda.gov/wayne

Southeast Ohio Oak Management Priority Forest Area

Need for interagency coordination

• 43% forest resource is here
• Ohio crossroads for invasive

species

• 76% land base family

woodland owners

• 10 State Service Foresters

and 2 Extension Specialists for entire priority forest area

• Public lands checkerboard
• wnership and loss of forest

land spatial integrity

Inter eragency cy Bus Busines ess Model

• del
• Structure and process: team charter, various

agreements

• Communication and Outreach: coordinated both

internally and externally

• Regional Science Framework: data, tools, training
• Landscape-scale conservation strategies:

implementing across boundaries

• Collaborative or Participatory Leadership
• Adaptive management: grounded in Project

Management Standards

Interagency Business Plan

• Goal 1: operational process
• Alignment with State Forest Action Plan framework
• Goal 2: coordination communication and outreach
• Goal 3: regional science framework
• Goal 4: Hocking Plateau Shared Stewardship

Project Area

Keys t to

• Succ

Succes ess

Business Model is working:

• Liaison position critical
• Team charter: agency leaders’ sponsorship, regular

meetings, right size and focus, adjust as needed

• Participatory leadership is key
• Adaptive management approach (baseline

collaboration metrics have been established) → Provides atmosphere and relationships to enable connection of strategic planning frameworks

Cha Challenges es

Field level engagement and coordination Forestry planning frameworks not always aligned Expanding partnerships beyond the agency team

Plan Alignment – Forestry Agencies

Ohio’s Forest Action Plan State Forest Mgt Plan Wayne NF Forest Plan Private Lands Programs

Plann nning ng C Coordina nation: n: Oh Ohio F Forest A Action P n Plan U n Upda date & & Wayne ne N NF P Plan n As Asses essm smen ent P t Pha hase se

• Ohio DNR specialists

participated on the Wayne NF Planning Team

• Ohio Interagency Forestry

Team provided coordination

• Sharing data and research
• Consistent interpretation

and terminology

• Key science messages
• Different processes but

collaboration & communication key

Lessons learned

• Ohio Interagency Forestry Team business plan

bridged the scale between SFAP and Wayne NF Plan assessment

• Timelines and processes very difficult to align
• Forestry Team relationships helped make
• pportunistic connections

Lessons learned: connections made

• SFAP Assessment vetted with Wayne NF Plan

Assessment specialist reports for Ecology and Fire

• Ohio FAP priority area representing Forestry Team

focus area

• Forestry Team focus area became Wayne NF Plan

assessment analysis area

Ohio Priority Forest Areas and Forestry Team Focus Area

Lessons Learned: tools and data sharing examples

• Ecomapping for SE Ohio
• Pre-settlement

vegetation data synthesis

• Position paper in

support of using oak dominated forest instead of oak-hickory

Les essons

• ns in pr

n progres ess: moni nitoring ng

• Carry criteria and indicators forward into SFAP

strategy document

• Adopt criteria and indicators as organizing

framework for Forestry Team business plan

• SFAP Implementation: develop connections

between strategies, criteria and indicators and finer level metrics

• Interagency broad-scale monitoring framework?
• Inform monitoring section of WNF Planning framework?

Les essons

• ns in pr

n progres ess: SF SFAP a and nd Wayne N NF P Planni ning ng

• SFAPs can really inform and help set the stage for

National Forest Management Plans

• SFAP implementation lends itself to making it a

“living document” until next planning cycle comes around

• Planning timelines and processes don’t often match

up

• Identifying and understanding the connections can

be complex but worthwhile!

More lessons to come!

Our key positions to facilitate this effort:

Jarel Bartig Ohio Interagency Liaison Shared FS and NRCS position Tom Macy ODNR Forest Planner Forest Health Program Administrator Stephanie Downs ODNR NRCS Liaison The Future of Oak is in Our Hands