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Northern Forest Investment Zone -Joe Short, Northern Forest Center Creating New & Revitalized Forest Building Regional Place-Based Income Capacity Strategy Integration Streams 1. Realize Profits from 1. Expand Financing & 1.


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SLIDE 1

Northern Forest Investment Zone

  • Joe Short, Northern Forest Center
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SLIDE 2
  • 1. Expand Financing &

Investment Options

  • 2. Develop Supportive Public

Policy & Investment

  • 3. Strengthen Capacity by

Building Networks

Building Regional Capacity

1. Establish Community Forests

  • 2. Launch

Mahoosuc Pilot

Place-Based Strategy Integration

  • 1. Realize Profits from

Ecosystem Services

  • 2. Advance Community-

Scale Biomass Energy

  • 4. Increase Earnings from

High-Quality Tourism

Creating New & Revitalized Forest Income Streams

  • 3. Catalyze Innovation in

Wood Products Mfg

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SLIDE 3

2-3 schools/businesses with biomass heating

  • Local, sustainable, secure fuel supply
  • Significant cost savings
  • Reinvestment in local economy

2 Community Forests

  • Payments for biomass, carbon, water,

& saw logs

  • Recreational resource
  • Ecological benefits

New Income for Forest Owners, Jobs for Forest Workers

  • Saw logs to local mills and manufacturers
  • Chip sales to local biomass installations
  • Access for recreation
  • Carbon, watershed payments

Jobs in Wood Products Manufacturing

  • Business innovation
  • Markets for local wood
  • Stabilized (and growing?)

job base

Tourism Development

  • Hospitality training
  • Product development
  • Branding

High quality forest-based jobs Innovative forest-based business opportunities Stabilized and sustainably managed forest base