NRC 225 1st Edition Lecture 29 Outline of Last Lecture I Urban and community forestry II Trees are worth money III The planting care and tending of an urban and community forest Outline of Current Lecture I Chesapeake Bay II Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forestry Program III Outcomes of top down versus bottom up approaches IV How do we do that Current Lecture Chesapeake Bay One of most productive estuary Biggest money maker is the oyster Oysters have slowly been disappearing from overfishing Try to introduce other oysters introduce pathogens Chesapeake Bay Watershed Forestry Program Want to preserve forests around Chesapeake Bay to protect it Nitrogen dead zones Outcomes of top down versus bottom up approaches to river governance Top Down specialist centered Compromise reached by confrontation alienation disinvestment relationships Impaired short term efficiency high overall efficiency low Bottom Up stakeholder centered Consensus reached by cooperation ownership relationship improved short Term efficiency low overall efficiency high We have to do both Postel and Richter 2003 after Sherwill How do we do that 64 100 mi2 41000000 acres 58 forest losing 100 acres day Give 50 feet away from river as conservation Gets rid of overland flow erosion These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute The perfect is the enemy of the good Governor s Council 2 000 miles of forest buffers by 2000 1998 about 600 miles completed but not as many miles in the pipeline Expanded goals 2 010 miles completed in 2002 NEW expanded goal 10 000 miles by 2010 7 800 miles completed in 2012 new goal of 900 miles year 50 000 miles is not the ultimate goal less than total riparian zone Know it s successful when oysters come back
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