March 24, 2022. With Alicia Coleman, Michael Downey and Emily Boss.

The USFS Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) is a non-regulatory program designed to help landowners protect the inherent ecosystem values of their forest. In Massachusetts, the FSP is administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Massachusetts Woodland Institute. This workshop will provide background of the FSP and the number of ways in which state service foresters are working to address biodiversity restoration (e.g. Foresters for the Birds), climate change resilience (e.g. trends in soil carbon capture), and the ongoing opportunities to reach new landowners. We will then present results of the USFS-required Priority Lands Analysis, which used publicly-available data and the Massachusetts Forest Action Plan to highlight parcel-level eligibility for the FSP. This includes examples across urban-to-rural landscapes of Massachusetts. Finally, we will present the ways in which FSP compliments local conservation and the importance of the technical support it provides for landowners in long-term planning for their land; experiences of the Franklin Land Trust service will be used as demonstration.

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