Outcome-Based Forestry: A Case Study of the First Private Landowner’s Implementation of an Alternative to Maine’s Forest Practices Act
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Determine how participating landowners were incorporating OBF policy into their forest management planning and operations; learn how they were ensuring that the required outcomes under the agreement were being achieved; determine the effects of IW's enrollment in OBF, as perceived by their forest managers, upon IW as a corporation, upon society, and upon the foresters implementing the policy; determine if harvest plans created under the contraints of OBF produce lower rates of fragmentation compared to FPA harvest plans for the same landscape
Key Findings: OBF harvests more closely followed stand boundaries, fractured fewer stands, and maintained higher mean stand area, the spatial arrangement of harvesting is a critical factor in lowering fragmentation
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- Doty, Jon
University of Maine
A case study of outcome-based forestry in Maine:
- Voluntary policy focused on reducing rule-based approaches to forestry
- Encourages more scientific approaches to forest management
- Enrolled landowner must report a list of harvest management and silvicultural metrics
- Must prove that they are achieving the State’s sustainability goals
This thesis addresses what it means to practice OBF, how the outcomes are achieved, what the effects of enrollment in OBF are, and whether the OBF mitigates the problems of FPA.
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