1. Washington Hardwood Commission
Annual Meeting
June 10, 2009
wffa slides

2. Rick Dunning, Executive Director www.wafarmforestry.com

3. Washington Farm Forestry Association
501 c 5 Non-Profit, Non-governmental Assn.
Purpose to provide our 1400 family memberships with educational programs and to promote development of fair taxation and regulation.
Members are considered model* owners who see their woodlots as an investment and lifestyle and believe they have a responsibility to be stewards of the land.
They involve themselves in educational programs and are likely to invest in management plans, certification programs, and the social activities of our association.
*Roper report – Judy Langer, January 2008

4. Washington State Forestland Database
This map shows the federal, state, tribal, industrial and family forestlands in the State. Only at the county level have we had such a detailed accounting of where Washington’s forest resource lands are. You can see here that the small forest land owners are located in that critical region between our suburban areas and the industrial, state and federal forestlands higher in the watershed. Using this information base as a foundation we have:

5. Washington State Forestland Dataset Project
Luke Rogers, Principle Investigators
Steve Stinson, Family Forest Foundation

6. ATFS, WFFA and DNR Stewardship
WFFA = 292,000 acres
ATFS = 150,000 acres

7. Washington State Forestland Dataset
Size Class
Acres
# Owners
>2 acres
5,704,700
215,000
>5 acres
5,475,500
150,000
>10 acres
5,096,000
89,400
>20 acres
4,467,400
55,400
>20 and <30K
6,515,800
56,400

8. …mapped where small forest landowners are for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources…

9. Private Forest Acreages (2008)

10. Geographics Conclusion: Significant amount of land in buffers
Ownership Sizes
Owner Type
% Buffer
Industrial
15.5%
SFLO > 10 Acres
9.7%
Tribal Industrial
6.1%
Tribal SFLO
ATFS
14.0%
WFFA
13.7%
Conclusion: Significant amount of land in buffers
Owner Type
Tract Acres
Industrial
15,937
SFLO > 10 Acres
111
Tribal Industrial
402,378
Tribal SFLO
165
ATFS
475
WFFA
1,159
Conclusion: Small owners have smaller contiguous ownerships but still substantial

11. Geographics
Distance to Urban Areas
Distance to Development
Owner Type
Miles
Industrial
10.43
SFLO > 10 Acres
8.05
Tribal Industrial
26.71
Tribal SFLO
13.64
ATFS
6.60
WFFA
6.46
Conclusion: Small owners are much closer to urban areas than industry lands
Owner Type
Miles
Industrial
1.15
SFLO > 10 Acres
0.33
Tribal Industrial
4.41
Tribal SFLO
1.40
ATFS
0.35
WFFA
0.39
Conclusion: Small owners are 3 times closer to developed land than industry (2000 ft on average)

12. Risk of Conversion
By comparing the current market values of the properties to the net present value of continuing to manage as forestland we developed risk profiles for the likelihood of conversion to non-forest uses.

13. Conclusions Family Forests are unique and need unique solutions
Development pressures
Significant portion of land in riparian areas
Close to urban and suburban areas
Fragmented
Growing Family Forest population and land base
Interested in providing ecosystem services maintaining the forest land base
Being recognized as increasingly important.

14. 2050
2050

15. Contact Us Luke Rogers Andrew Cooke
Andrew Cooke
I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Washington Farm Forestry Association and the Family Forest Foundation for their unrelenting efforts to help quantify and better understand the interactions between policy and science and for their continued support of a project that has benefits far beyond their parcels of forestland.

16. Conifer Restoration Template
SFLO Advisory Committee:
Small Forest Landowners
Maximum of 1000’ of stream reach with one side of
stream harvest
50’ variable width no touch buffer
Leave all conifers
Mandatory reporting on reforestation
Adjacency issues with neighboring parcels
Hopes for finalization in coming months

17. Issues affecting Woodlot owners:
Forest and Fish Rules offered 3 things to WFFA:
1.) Forest Riparian Easement Program
2.) Alternate Plans (Templates) with less costly prescriptions
3.) Small Forest Landowner Office
Conclusion: Forest and Fish Rules have failed SFL’s.