2. Disclaimer
• 61 Organizations responded
• First time for on-line survey format
• Sustainable Northwest and the Core Group
synthesized responses
• Issues presented here do not represent
consensus
3. Overarching Issues
• Existing Issues
– More $$ and institutional support for:
• Comprehensive Restoration
• Capacity Building (community and agency)
• Collaboration
• Biomass utilization
– Appropriate scale throughout
– Performance measures as a strategy
4. Overarching Issues
• Rural Power
– Shared lack of frustration over lack of
political power and funding to help
rural communities engage in policy.
5. Overarching Issues
• Emerging Issues
– Rural economic development
– Climate change
– Land conversion
– Ranching
– Fire suppression budgets
6. What should the priority of the following
issue areas be for RVCC in 2008?
Priority
High Medium Not/Low
Percent
Issue Areas
Forest and watershed restoration 83 (49) 14 2
Rural economic development 72 (43) 25 3
Biomass utilization 71 (42) 22 3
Community capacity building 70 (41) 22 9
Sustainable forestry 56 (33) 32 7
Land conversion 52 33 13
Renewable energy 48 36 12
Workforce and labor 41 (24) 36 17
Climate change 41 41 15
Ecosystem services 40 40 17
Contracting (including stewardship contracting) 39 (23) 46 12
Old-growth protection 14 29 51
Green certification systems 12 38 48
Post-disturbance salvage 12 51 29
Non-timber forest products 7 36 53
Immigration 5 10 71
7. Working Group Preferences
Biomass utilization
Collaboration policies
Stewardship contracting
Federal appropriations for restoration and community development
Climate change
Land conversion
Community-owned forests
Federal support for capacity building
Legislative support for forest and watershed restoration
Performance measures
Ranching and rangeland issues
Multi-party monitoring
Wildfire cost containment
Energy policy
Workforce and labor
Contracting reform
Immigration
Other
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
8. Priority vs. Interest
• Collaboration
– High interest, not asked on priorities list
• Stewardship Contracting
– High interest, not one of highest priority issues
• Workforce and Labor
– Low interest (10), higher relative priority (24)
• Lessons
– The question influences the result
– Interest and group priorities may not always match
– Some things are important, but not right for RVCC
10. What priority should seeking changes to the federal land
management agency budget allocation processes to support the
following issues be?
Priority
High Medium Not/Low
Percent
Issues
Integration of comprehensive
restoration and community
economic development 75 19 2
Collaboration 61 37 2
Community and business
capacity building programs 58 26 11
11. Workforce and Labor
• Best Value Contracting
• Worker Safety
• High number of “don’t know” responses
12. Collaboration
• Performance Measures
• Funding
• Technical Assistance
• Guidance to agency staff
• Incentives for cross-boundary restoration
13. Community Capacity Building
• Agency capacity
• Capacity building in low-income
communities
• Funding for product and market
development
14. Stewardship Contracting
• Agency Capacity
• Scaling contracts for local capacity
• Multi-year contracting
• Use of retained receipts
15. Biomass
• Removing administrative barriers to utilization of
woody biomass from public lands
• Renewable energy production incentives include
woody biomass
• Scale
• Capital infrastructure assistance
17. Key Discussion Points
• Stewardship Contracting (25% receipts to
counties)
• Ranching
• Climate Change
• Biomass (renewable energy and thermal energy)
• County Payments
– Agreement on support for program
– Not as much agreement on details
– Uncertain role for RVCC
18. What federal programs have you used?
County Paym ents RACs
USDA Woody Biom ass Utilization Grant Program
Joint Fire Sciences
Rural Com m unity Developm ent Initiative
USFWS Partners Program and Private Stew ardship Grant Program
National Forest Foundation
Western States Wildland Urban Interface Grant Program
USDA Rural Cooperative Developm ent
North Am erican Wetland's Conservation Act
Black: Survey
NSF
responses
White: Other programs EPA
added by respondents
Collaborative Forest Restoration Program
0 5 10 15 20 25
20. What is the level of need of your community or
organization for the following assistance or training?
Need
High Moderate None/Some
Percent
Technical Assistance and Training
Marketing/Utilization of restoration by-
products 37 33 20
Biomass utilization and energy production 35 29 33
Land conversion 33 15 37
Accessing carbon markets 28 25 36
Community planning 25 23 42
Ecological/Social/Economic monitoring
protocols 21 37 33
Collaboration 16 35 47
Facilitation 16 22 53
Multi-party monitoring 15 42 35
21. Which of the following on-line organization tools has your
organization used?
Wikis
11%
Skype
7%
Other:
- Cadastral data Google docs Didn't answer the
- GoTo Meeting 20% question/ Don't
- Meeting management software
know/ Haven't used
- Montana Natural Resource Information
any of the tools
System (NRIS)
62%
- Survey Monkey
- WebEx
- Webinar
- Zoho
22. Types of Organizations
Tribal entity or Worker
Econom ic developm ent organization
organization 0%
Elected body
3%
2%
Other federal, state, or local
governm ent agency
7%
Com m unity-based natural
resource organization
30%
Other
8%
Research organization
8%
Federal or state land
For-profit business
m anagem ent agency
11%
10%
Other:
Foundation
Regional and national Environm ental organization Individual
conservation-based 11% Labor/Environmentalist Alliance
developm ent organization
Non-profit Trade Association
10%
Professional Forestry Organization
Research, outreach and education non-profit
