1. Reaching the Future Forest Owners of Pennsylvania USDA Forest Service Landowner Assistance Meeting Charleston, SC Allyson Muth School of Forest Resources The Pennsylvania State University

2. What We’ll Cover ► Concerns Over Legacy ► Engaging Current PA Landowners  Extension Programming  Woodland Owners Associations  PA Forest Stewards ► Changing Our Approach

3. Concerns Over Legacy ► Mercer County, Pennsylvania  Disconnect between Decision-Makers and Private Forest Landowners (PFLs) ► Northeastern Pennsylvania  Heightened awareness of loss to development ► Southeastern Pennsylvania  PFLs noticing that parcels getting smaller

4. Engaging Current Pennsylvania PFLs ► Extension Programming ► Woodland Owners Associations ► Pennsylvania Forest Stewards

5. Extension Programming ► Stewardship for the Future, 2004  In-Service Training for Volunteers ► Land History ► Engaging Future Generations ► Stewardship Planning ► What Will Become of My Forest?  Program offered in Mercer County in 2006 ► Estate Planning Options and Conservation Easements ► Getting Started on Your Estate Plan

6. Woodland Owners Associations ► Best Practices for WOAs Conferences  Creating a Stronger WOA, November 12, 2005 ► Recruiting and Retaining Members ► Programming ► Structural and Organizational Issues  Getting Your Message Out, November 4, 2006 ► Knowing Your Audience – Results of Statewide Survey ► Reaching Your Audience – Publicity ► Engaging Your Audience – Going Beyond Workshops

7. Pennsylvania Forest Stewards ► Ruffed Grouse Society’s Coverts Program  Focus on private forest stewardship ► Training in exchange for outreach efforts ► 431 volunteers trained since 1991; 349 still active. ► Increase in “legacies” coming through the program.

8. Marketing the Stewardship Message ► Landowner Contact Program ► Peer Mentoring ► Regional Liaisons ► Help New/Naïve Landowners Determine:  Objectives  Resources needed  Where to get help

9. Changing Our Approach ► Discovering Collaborative Learning: A Workshop  Goal: Create a cadre of resource professionals able to engage forest stakeholders in new ways. ► Facilitation ► Collaborative Learning ► Dialogue

10. Changing Our Approach ► Discovering Collaborative Learning: A Workshop  Seven contact days over 6 months ► How to: Collaborative learning and dialogue. ► How to: Work with groups and help people find common ground. ► Assignment: Create a collaborative learning resource group. ► Document impacts and refine training curriculum.