Forest landscape restoration in the USA: Present and future challenges and opportunities

Abstract

The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Partnership (CFLRP), focused on land managed at the national level (the National Forest System) by the US Forest Service, is a prominent public approach to FLR; whereas notable private sector programmes have been organized around specific forest types, for example the Longleaf Pine Initiative (ALRI, 2020), or bottomland hardwoods in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (NWFW, 2019). Major conservation organizations, including The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, and American Forest Foundation, are financing restoration programmes on both private and public land with conservation and carbon management objectives. Many other restoration projects are underway at smaller spatial scales, some of them quite local, and often focusing on biodiversity and ecological integrity. These would not be considered FLR as they are not at landscape scale and most do not have a livelihoods component.

Citation

Stanturf, John A.; Dumroese, R. Kasten; Jacobs, Douglass F. 2021. Forest landscape restoration in the USA: Present and future challenges and opportunities. In: Schweizer, D.; Ghazoul, J., editors. Forests for the future: Restoration success at landscape scale - what will it take and what have we learned? Prince Bernhard Chair Reports (Issue 1). Zeist, Netherlands: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Netherlands; Utrecht University. p 120-125.