FLP Partner Roles
The Federal Role The significance of the public benefits of a particular forest ranges from local to national. Larger forests tend to be nationally significant because the values they provide are becoming more rare. Extensive forest areas are often subject to the additional challenge of multiple ownerships and numerous political jurisdictions. Through the Forest Legacy Program, the Federal government helps State and local governments look beyond their political boundaries to identify important forest areas. The Federal government provides oversight, and financial and technical assistance to help protect important forests.
The State Role States integrate partner resources to cooperatively protect and maintain a forest land base. The lead agency, usually the State forestry organization, carries out the FLP in the State. Responsibilities include the following:
Collect information to identify and delineate important forest areas that may be selected as Forest Legacy Areas.
Consult with the State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee to achieve program purposes.
Address land protection and forest management issues.
Conduct land acquisition activities
Integrate policies and incentives to conserve a forest land base.
Hold and administering the lands or interests in land that enter the Forest Legacy Program.
Monitor tracts for program compliance.
The State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee Role The State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee is identified in the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act. The committee’s consulting and recommending duties for the Forest Legacy Program are identified in the act and the FLP guidelines, and include the following:
Prioritize lands for inclusion in the FLP.
Establish eligibility criteria and recommends Forest Legacy Areas in the Assessment of Need process.
Advise the State lead agency in order to achieve Forest Legacy Program objectives.
The Nongovernmental Organization (Land Trust) Role Nongovernmental organizations, specifically land trusts or similar organizations, have a distinct relationship with the FLP. Because of their compatible interest in protecting land for conservation purposes, land trusts can be a primary contact with landowners to negotiate the purchase of conservation easements and to monitor the conservation easements once they are enrolled in the FLP. Lands acquired by or donated to land trusts may be counted toward the non-Federal cost-share amount of total program costs, provided the interests in lands contribute to the goals of the Forest Legacy Program and the lands are located within a Forest Legacy Area.
The Landowner Role Landowner participation in the FLP is voluntary. A landowner joins the program either by conveying interests in lands to achieve the conservation objectives of the FLP or by purchasing or inheriting land that has already been committed to an FLP conservation easement. The landowner becomes a primary practitioner in maintaining the forest land base by implementing management activities to conserve the values for which the land entered the program.
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