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Nicole Wulff

Changing Roles Training Coordinator

InterfaceSouth- U.S. Forest [email protected] (352) 378-2451

www.interfacesouth.org/changingroles

Welcome!Tennessee Land-

Use Planning Partnership

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Raise your hand if you are interested in…• Effective stormwater management

• Preserving biodiversity and wildlife habitat

• Additional recreation area

• Improved human health and quality of life

• Conserving farms and forests that contribute to the economy

• Increased land values

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Workshop Objectives Why are we here?

• At the end of today, we will:– Understand issues and challenges faced in urbanizing areas.

– Understand the necessity of professionals from an array of disciplines working together to create sustainable communities.

– Be aware of resources that can be used to guide the consideration of natural resources in land-use decision making.

– Understand the role that natural resource professionals can play in providing technical assistance.

For the fabulous prizes, of course!

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Workshop Deliverables

• A logic model to identify outcomes, outputs, and inputs to address challenge of incorporating natural resources into land-use planning.

• A list of strategies to address gaps in interaction between land-use planning and natural resource professionals

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Outline

• Natural resources at different scales

• Benefits of considering natural resources

• Overview of the wildland-urban interface

• Changing Roles program as a potential strategy

• Why the CR program was developed

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Natural Resources and Land-use Planning• What’s going on at different scales?

– site, metropolitan, state, region?

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Consideration of natural resources @ the site scale

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Consideration of natural resources @ the metropolitan scale

NASHVILLE: NATURALLYCreating, Enhancing, and Preserving Places That Matter

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Consideration of natural resources @ the state scale

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Consideration of natural resources @ the regional scale

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Natural Resources and Land-use Planning• What are some of the benefits of including

natural resources in land-use planning?

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Including Natural Resourcescan have economic benefits• Examples of the Value of

Natural Systems and Other Open Spaces

– Functioning Natural Systems

– Working Lands

– Nature – Based Tourism / Recreation

– Real Estate

– Human Health

– Quality of Life

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Including Natural Resourceshas ecologic benefits• Natural ecosystem values and

functions

– Carbon sequestration, climate regulation

– Energy conservation

– Soil conservation and generation

– Storing and cycling nutrients

– Filtering and cooling water

– Wildlife habitat

– Maintaining biodiversity

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Including Natural Resourcescan have social benefits• Benefits to human

populations

– Recreation and scenery

– Human health

– Pollinating crops and other plants

– Providing forest products, fish and game for human consumption

– Hazard mitigation, flood control

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With Economic, Ecologic, and Social Benefits…

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Where can land-use planning and decision-making have positive impacts when natural

resources are considered?

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The Wildland-Urban Interface..Where people who live in the city go to feel like they are in the country, and where people who live in the country go to feel like they are in the city.

- Jim Hull

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Terminology

• Urban Wildland Interface• Wildland-Urban Interface• Rural Urban Interface• Rural Fringe• Exurbia• Peri-Urban Interface • Urban Sprawl, Rural Sprawl, Rural Clusters,

Clustered Sprawl

Royal Cluster

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Wildland-Urban Interface Continuum

Isolated (2nd homes) Classic (competing land-uses)

Intermix (changing land-use) Islands (surrounded by urban)

More Wilderness More Urban

Which of these photos depicts the wildland-urban interface?

From a spatial spatial perspective…

“All of the above”

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..the WUI is an area where increased human influence and land conversion are changing

natural resource goods, services, and management.

The WUI froma resource managementresource management perspective..

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Where is the WUI?

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When I say “wildland-urban interface” what comes to your mind?

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WUI Issues

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New tactics

The Far Side

Shhh… Zog,Here come one now.

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Partners and Cooperators

Virginia Tech, Auburn University, NC State, Southern Regional Extension Forestry

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Training

The Far Side

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At InterfaceSouth…

• We support and conduct research, disseminate new and existing information, serve as a clearinghouse of WUI information, build partnerships and collaborative efforts and approaches, and facilitate and create links to and between other organizations.

• Changing Roles is one IS program

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InterfaceSouth…

• …and Urban Forestry South make up the Centers for Urban and Interface Forestry

• Unit 4952 of the Southern Research Station of the

• Forest Service

• US Department of Agriculture

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Outline

• Natural resources at different scales

• Benefits of considering natural resources

• Overview of the wildland-urban interface

• Changing Roles program as a potential strategy

• Why the CR program was developed

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Workshop Objectives Why are we here?

• At the end of today, we will:– Understand issues and challenges faced in urbanizing areas.

– Understand the necessity of professionals from an array of disciplines working together to create sustainable communities.

– Be aware of resources that can be used to guide the consideration of natural resources in land-use decision making.

– Understand the role that natural resource professionals can play in providing technical assistance.

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To learn more:

Nicole Wulff

Changing Roles Training Coordinator

U.S. Forest Service – InterfaceSouth

[email protected] (352) 378-2451

www.interfacesouth.org/changingroles

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Outline

• What the program is and how it works

• What is up next

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..the WUI is an area where increased human influence and land conversion are changing

natural resource goods, services, and management therefore..

We need:– new skills and approaches to better understand

and effectively work in the interface.

The WUI froma resource managementresource management perspective..

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New tactics

The Far Side

Shhh… Zog,Here come one now.

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Partners and Cooperators

Virginia Tech, Auburn University, NC State, Southern Regional Extension Forestry

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Training

The Far Side

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Module Topics

1: WUI Issues and Connections

2: Managing Interface Forests

3: Land-Use Planning and Policy

4: Communicating with Interface Residents and Leaders

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New Module 5: Emerging Issues• Land-use planning at multiple scales

• An ecosystem goods and services approach

• Climate change

• Small-scale forestry

• Ecological restoration

• Social responsibility

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Who me? Be a community resource? YES! YOU! • Natural resource professionals have knowledge,

experience, and skills that are valuable in land-use decision making.

• Using the best available science, they can help decision makers and landowners evaluate risks and benefits (for both the natural resource and the community) associated with land-use change in the WUI.

• Offer services, attend meetings, speak to local groups, write letters to editor, etc.

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Module Contents

Trainer’s Guide

Fact Sheets Presentations

Exercises

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Additional Materials

• Listserve• Case studies• Resource list• Evaluation resources• Trainer’s CD

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Additional Materials

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Changing Roles section of InterfaceSouth webpage

• Changing Roles Listserve

• Changing Roles Notebook

• Changing Roles Update

• Information Handout

• Related Resources

• Trainer’s Corner

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How have materials been used?• 1-2 day in-service training• Session in conjunction with an annual meeting• Breakout session in an agency annual training• Teleconference/webinar• Texas Forest Expo• Integrated with Firewise field days• Integrated with Green Infrastructure training• Integrated with leadership training• Integrated in undergraduate forestry courses• Emerging Communities Competitive Grant

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Train-the-Trainer

Workshop

• Lake Conroe, TX April 23-25, 2009

• Over 50 participants, 10 states

• 2 tracks• TFS, USFS, TPWD

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Cooperation with UF

• 3 hour Communications focused lab

• Foundations summer course

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www.forestrywebinars.net

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Fall 2010 Webinar Series

• Green Infrastructure

• Forest Cooperatives

• Ecosystem Goods and Services

• Climate Change??

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Workshop Objectives Why are we here?

• At the end of today, we will:– Understand issues and challenges faced in urbanizing areas.

– Understand the necessity of professionals from an array of disciplines working together to create sustainable communities.

– Be aware of resources that can be used to guide the consideration of natural resources in land-use decision making.

– Understand the role that natural resource professionals can play in providing technical assistance.

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To learn more:

Nicole Wulff

U.S. Forest Service – InterfaceSouth

[email protected] (352) 378-2451

www.interfacesouth.org/changingroles

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