FSC US Admin
Jul 25, 2018

Mitigation Idea: help landowners with taxes, succession planning, etc.

Here is a possible mitigation option generated at the 2017 Focus Group Meeting:


Helping landowners with taxes, succession planning, etc. (to reduce the incentives to view the forest as a financial burden, or to view conversion of their forest as a better financial alternative to maintaining it). (This option was not assessed using the framework described below.)


NOTE: The final draft of the National Risk Assessment requires that any mitigation options for conversion fit within the following framework (drawn from the U.S. Forest Service Open Space Conservation Strategy):

Actions identified must help to achieve one of the following outcomes:

  1. Convene partners to identify and protect priority forest areas

  2. Promote national policies and markets to help private landowners conserve forests

  3. Provide resources and tools to help communities expand and connect forests

  4. Participate in community growth planning to reduce ecological impacts and wildfire risks

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    Mitigation Idea: encourage landowners to view timberlands as profitable investments

    Discussion 
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