Progress 04/27/17 to 09/30/20
Outputs
Target Audience:The New Jersey RREA Program primarily targets private, nonindustrial forest landowners, to encourage them to be more actively involved with stewardship of their forest resources. Forest resources management professionals are a second target audience, as they are vital in New Jersey for working with landowners and advocating sustainable management practices. Landowners of less than 5 acres, homeowners, and others constitute a third target audience. Changes/Problems:COVID -19 caused several programs to cancel or delay intothe next reporting year. The time was used developing distance learning and training resources that are being vetted in the classroom and then developed for extension educationas programs resume and retool. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Workshops, meetings, field days, demonstrations, recorded and live-stream distance learning venues. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
We have continued supporting information and outreach awareness programming to address Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) and now Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) as they are spreading within the state. We also maintain engagement with the NJ Woodland Stewards Program partners to enhance resource management on working forests and urban canopy. COVID has re-enforced the transition to use of the Backyard Forestry in a 90 Minuteprogram to also include topics from the woodland stewards program in digital chunk offerings.This work is closely coordinated with the NJ DEP and the NJ Forestry Association. Our work with NJ DEP has been with both private forest land owners and urban-community audiences since our state, as predominantly urban in definition, shares general audience and professional service stakeholders. We again contributed time during the 26th NJ Fall Forestry Festival which saw approx. 100 volunteers engaging over 500 attendees from the general public. We have expanded our partnering contributions with the NJFA Backyard Forestry program contributing presentations with additional Rutgers NJAES contributions for content. We have continued contribution to professional consultant and professional society training. Our broad presentation efforts on SLF and EAB provide an opportunity to deploy content from related programs directly to the private forest and landowner groups. An estimated 120,000 landowners own approximately 805,000 acres of forestland in New Jersey, yet only about 15 percent of those owners actively manage their forest lands. Because these properties often occur in many otherwise suburban municipal units, our natural linkage with urban and community forestry aligns well with NJ DEP Forestry all-trees program emphasis to maximize efforts on limited labor capacities. Our response to EAB and now SLF has been a priority across all stakeholder groups. Our program has participated in 11 program presentations across all manner of community, conference, professional training audience addressing invasive species, tree culture and care, climate change and carbon. We also continue to provide organizational leadership for the Forest Landscape and Agriculture Pest Roundtable (FLAPR) which represents multiple state and federal agencies involved with this invasive pest which then makes a much wider direct impact to landowners and managers.The NJ Woodland Stewards Program graduated 25 volunteers in September 2019. Each volunteer is expected to spend 30 hours during the following year promoting forestry in NJ, but of course such effort has been impacted by organizational challenges due to the cancellation of many activities and logistic hurdles presented by a university shutdown and following return to activity. At the federal volunteer rate of $25.43/hour, their eventual efforts will be valued at over $19,072. "Backyard Forestry in 90 Minutes",a monthly program targeting owners of less than five acres, homeowners, and others, transitioned to a digital format during the second half of the reporting year and produced 10 in-person events reaching over 250 people with topics such as tree identification, EAB workshops, wildlife connections and management best practices. Content in the north NJ sessions mirrored content in the Woodland Stewards program for a new audience on a different time commitment plan. The purpose of these programs is to increase active management on private, non-industrial forest lands to increase returns and benefits to the landowner, enhance the resource, and ultimately retain New Jersey's forest resource in a healthy, productive condition. As New Jersey has joined the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) we have worked with NJ DEP Forestry Services and have been developing outreach content for forestry audiences on how to understand and communicate carbon as a metric in their property management planning.
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Progress 10/01/18 to 09/30/19
Outputs
Target Audience:The New Jersey RREA Program primarily targets private, nonindustrial forest landowners, to encourage them to be more actively involved with stewardship of their forest resources. Forest resources management professionals are a second target audience, as they are vital in New Jersey for working with landowners and advocating sustainable management practices. Landowners of less than 5 acres, homeowners, and others constitute a third target audience. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Workshops, meetings, field days, demonstrations, and newsletters/other educational materials. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We continue to develop and augment content for Woodland Stewards and Back Yard Forestry to better support these collaborations with partner organizations. We will be working to both expand locations for program offering while developing a transition to web content offerings to meet the target audiences on their timelines and preferred locations. We will increase opportunities for volunteer service for graduates of the Woodland Stewards Programs. We will be working with the NJ Forestry Association to increase membership, which in essence, increases our direct contact with forest landowners across the state. We fully expect Woodland Stewards programming to reach the 175 volunteers trained benchmark.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
We have continued supporting information and outreach awareness programming to address Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) and now Spotted Lantern Fly (SLF) as they are spreading within the state.We also maintain engagement with the NJ Woodland Stewards Program partners to enhance resource management on working forests and urban canopy.This work is closely coordinated with the NJ DEP and the NJ Forestry Association.Our work with NJ DEP has been with both private forest land owners and urban-community audiences since our state, as predominantly urban in definition, shares general audience and professional service stakeholders. We again contributed time during the 25th NJ Fall Forestry Festival which saw over 100 volunteers engaging over 600 attendees from the general public.We have expanded our partnering contributions with the NJFA Backyard Forestry program contributing presentations with additional Rutgers NJAES contributions for content.We have continued contribution to professional consultant and society training.Our broad presentation efforts on SLF and EAB provide an opportunity to deploy content from related programs directly to the private forest and landowner groups. An estimated 120,000 landowners own approximately 805,000 acres of forestland in New Jersey, yet only about 15 percent of those owners actively manage their forest lands. Because these properties often occur in many otherwise suburban municipal units, our natural linkage with urban and community forestry aligns well with NJ DEP Forestry all-trees program emphasis to maximize efforts on limited labor capacities. Our response to EAB and now SLF has been a priority across all stakeholder groups. We worked with NJ DEP and hosted an EAB Forum which invited 50 participants across multiple agencies and professional associations (such as public works asoc., jnt insurance fund, public utilities and Dot) on campus to assist with a statewide coordinated response. This has resulted in multiple beyond-program presentations and efforts for communities and landowners to understand and responds to the invasive insect threat, particularly in North and Central New Jersey. Our program has participated in 18 program presentations across all manner of community, conference, professional training audience addressing , at least in part, EAB and-or SLF. We also continue to provide organizational leadership for the Forest Landscape and Agriculture Pest Roundtable (FLAPR) which represents multiple state and federal agencies involved with this invasive pest which then makes a much wider direct impact to landowners and managers. During the university-wide Rutgers Day, we developed a booth which discussed salvage logging and portable wood mill safety and use. We gave away 900 containerized seedlings from the state nursery, and saw well over 1000 booth visits. The NJ Woodland Stewards Program graduated 25 volunteers in September 2019, putting the program at 150 graduates to date. The potential impact of the new volunteers is significant: each volunteer is expected to spend 30 hours during the following year promoting forestry in NJ. At the federal volunteer rate of $25.43/hour, their efforts will be valued at over $19,072. "Backyard Forestry in 90 Minutes", a monthly program targeting owners of less than five acres, homeowners, and others, reached 300 people over 10 presentations ranging from tree identification and culture, risk management, wildlife connections and management best practices at the Forestry Resource Educational Center in Jackson, NJ. There was a program expansion of a new region of the state with 6 additional events in Northern NJ. Content in these sessions mirrors content in the Woodland Stewards program for a new audience on a different time commitment plan. The purpose of these programs is to increase active management on private, non-industrial forest lands to increase returns and benefits to the landowner, enhance the resource, and ultimately retain New Jersey's forest resource in a healthy, productive condition.
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Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18
Outputs
Target Audience:The New Jersey RREA Program primarily targets private, nonindustrial forest landowners, to encourage them to be more actively involved with stewardship of their forest resources. Forest resources management professionals are a second target audience, as they are vital in New Jersey for working with landowners and advocating sustainable management practices. Landowners of less than 5 acres, homeowners, and others constitute a fourth target audience added in FY15 & 16. It is important that this audience gain an appreciation and understanding of, and develop support for, forestry and natural resources. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Direct impacts include presentations in the Woodland Stewards and Backyard Forestry Programs as well as consultant/professional presentations at NJ Conference events. Pest alerts and support documentation for Emerald Ash Borer in Newsletters and Web Content have been developed and offered. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Workshops, meetings, field days, demonstrations, and newsletters/other educational materials. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We continue to develop and augment content for Woodland Stewards and Back Yard Forestry to better support these collaborations with partner organizations. We will be working to both expand locations for program offering while developing a transition to web content offerings to meet the target audiences on their timelines and preferred locations. We will be developing print and web content to assist landowners in developing responses to policy and environmental changes impacting forest resilience in the immediate and the longer-term timeframes. We will specifically look to increase opportunities for volunteer service for graduates of the Woodland Stewards Programs. We will be working with the NJ Forestry Association to increase membership, which in essence, increases our direct contact with forest landowners across the state. This will provide a greater audience for the educational content development effort. We target an expansion of the 11-12 Backyard forestry events to new locations. We fully expect Woodland Stewards programming to reach the 130 volunteers trained benchmark. We hope that our initial meetings will transition into active collaborative works in varied programming events with the NJ Forestry association and SAF partners. The program is going to be the lead in rolling out a new web-based tool in the coming year, having already started in some beta-testing, survey and initial release presentations. The NJ Adapt program (http://www.njadapt.org/ ) is developing a free-access tool (NJ Forest Adapt) to assist land management choices in the face of climate change and novel biotic challenges associated with both environmental and land development change.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
We have continued supporting information and outreach awareness programming to address Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) and now Spotted Lantern Fly (SLF) as they are spreading within the state. We also maintain engagement with the NJ Woodland Stewards Program partners to enhance resource management on working forests and urban canopy. This work is closely coordinated with the NJ DEP and the NJ Forestry Association. Our work with NJ DEP has been with both private forest land owners and urban-community audiences since our state, as predominantly urban in definition, shares general audience and professional service stakeholders. We again contributed time during the 24th NJ Fall Forestry Festival which saw 140 volunteers engaging over 770 attendees from the general public. We have expanded our partnering contributions with the NJFA Backyard Forestry program contributing 18% of the presentation directly, with additional Rutgers NJAES contributions for content. We have continued contribution to professional consultant and society training. we have been introducing and linking current web content and resources from Center for Resilient Landscapes and Climate change hub events to forest management community members to open opportunistic educational events. This provides an opportunity to deploy content from related programs directly to the private forest and landowner groups. An estimated 120,000 landowners own approximately 805,000 acres of forestland in New Jersey, yet only about 15 percent of those owners actively manage their forest lands. Because these properties often occur in many otherwise suburban municipal units, our natural linkage with urban and community forestry aligns well with NJ DEP Forestry all-trees program emphasis to maximize efforts on limited labor capacities. Our response to EAB and now SLF has been a priority across all stakeholder groups. We worked with NJ DEP and hosted an EAB Forum which invited 50 participants across multiple agencies and professional associations (such as public works asoc., jnt insurance fund, public utilities and Dot) on campus to assist with a statewide coordinated response. This has resulted in multiple beyond-program presentations and efforts for communities and landowners to understand and responds to the invasive insect threat, particularly in North and Central New Jersey. Our program has participated in 13 program presentations across all manner of community, conference, professional training audience addressing , at least in part, EAB and-or SLF. We also continue to provide organizational leadership for the NJ EAB Taskforce group (http://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/pi/prog/emeraldashborer.html ) which represents multiple state and federal agencies involved with this invasive pest which then makes a much wider direct impact to landowners and managers. This program has developed into a broader focus from EAB to now be called the Forest Landscape and Agriculture Pest Roundtable (FLAPR). During the university-wide Rutgers Day, we developed a booth which discussed Bacterial Leaf Scorch and the need for active forest canopy management for changing times. We gave away 600 containerized seedlings from the state nursery, and saw well over 2000 booth visits. The NJ Woodlands Stewards Program graduated 17 volunteers in October 2017 and 25 volunteers in September 2018, putting the program at 125 graduates to date . The potential impact of the new volunteers is significant: each volunteer is expected to spend 30 hours during the following year promoting forestry in NJ. At the federal volunteer rate of $24.69/hour, their efforts will be valued at over $31,109. "Backyard Forestry in 90 Minutes", a monthly program targeting owners of less than five acres, homeowners, and others, reached 320 people over 11 presentations ranging from tree culture, risk management, wildlife connections and management best practices. The purpose of these programs is to increase active management on private, non-industrial forest lands to increase returns and benefits to the landowner, enhance the resource, and ultimately retain New Jersey's forest resource in a healthy, productive condition.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Zipse P and Yoo R. 2017. Keep an eye on your oaks! NJ SAF web page Dec 2017, and NJFA Woodland Stewards ⿿Reaching Out. Issue 31 Nov 2017.
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Progress 04/27/17 to 09/30/17
Outputs
Target Audience:The New Jersey RREA Program primarily targets private, nonindustrial forest landowners, to encourage them to be more actively involved with stewardship of their forest resources. Forest resources management professionals are a second target audience, as they are vital in New Jersey for working with landowners and advocating sustainable management practices. Landowners of less than 5 acres, homeowners, and others constitute atarget audience added in FY15 & 16. It is important that this audience gain an appreciation and understanding of, and develop support for, forestry and natural resources. To a lesser extent,municipally managed lands, urban/suburban canopy and state forested lands to increase returns and benefits to the landowner. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Workshops, meetings, field days, demonstrations, and newsletters/other educational materials. Direct impacts include presentations in the Woodland Stewards and Backyard Forestry Programs as well as consultant/professional presentations at NJ Conference events. Pest alerts and support documentation for Emerald Ash Borer in Newsletters and Web Content have been developed and offered. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We continue to develop and augment content for Woodland Stewards and Back yard forestry to better support these collaborations with partner organizations. We will be working to both expand locations for program offering while developing a transition to web content offerings to meet the target audiences on their timelines and preferred locations. We will be developing print and web content to assist landowners in developing responses to policy and environmental changes impacting forest resilience in the immediate and the longer-term timeframes. We will specifically look to increase opportunities for volunteer service for graduates of the Woodland Stewards Programs. We will be working with the NJ Forestry Association to increase membership, which in essence, increases our direct contact with forest landowners across the state. This will provide a greater audience for the educational content development effort. We target an expansion of the 11-12 Backyard forestry events to new locations. We fully expect Woodland Stewards programming to reach the 100 volunteers trained benchmark. We hope that our initial meetings will transition into active collaborative works in varied programming events with the NJ Forestry association and SAF partners.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
There are three program goals: 1.Enhance resource management on working forests and urban canopy; 2. Enhance collaborative educational and outreach efforts with NJDEP Forest Services; and 3. Build capacity through enhancing and strengthening connections to professional and forest research collaborative groups. This has been a year of transition. We focused on the following outreach areas within the three stated goals. We developed supporting information and outreach awareness programming to address Emerald Ash Borer as it is spreading within the state as well as maintained engagement with the NJ Woodland Stewards Program partners to enhance resource management on working forests and urban canopy. This work is closely coordinated with the NJ DEP as a state partner, and with NJ Forestry Association. Our work with NJ DEP has been primarily with disease-pest programming and developing linkages across private forest land owners and urban-community audiences since our state, as predominantly urban in definition, shares general audience and professional service stakeholders. Our work with Backyard forestry has been limited to developing familiarity and planning for the coming year of programming. We have continued contribution to professional consultant and society training and have been introducing and linking current web content and resources from Center for Resilient Landscapes and Climate change hub events to forest management community members to open opportunistic educational events. This provides an opportunity to deploy relevant related content from related programs directly to the private forest and landowner groups An estimated 120,000 landowners own approximately 805,000 acres of forestland in New Jersey, yet only about 15 percent of those owners actively manage their forest lands. Because these properties often occur in many otherwise suburban municipal units, our natural linkage with urban and community forestry aligns well with NJ DEP Forestry all-trees program emphasis to maximize efforts on limited labor capacities. Our response to Emerald Ash Borer has been a priority across all stakeholder groups. While our program specifically has provided 19 program presentations across all manner of community, conference, professional training audience, it is coordinated with the NJ EAB Taskforce group (http://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/pi/prog/emeraldashborer.html ) which represents multiple state and federal agencies involved with this invasive pest. This program is the organizational chair of the group to ensure maximum outreach effectiveness through a robust coordinated voice and set of recommendations. The Woodland Stewards Program approaches the 100 participant mark and will be passed by the next report. The sixth NJ Woodlands Stewards Program graduated 22 volunteers. The potential impact of the new volunteers is significant: each volunteer is expected to spend 30 hours during the following year promoting forestry in NJ. At the federal volunteer rate of $20.85/hour, their efforts will be valued at over $13,700 The backyard forestry program continues in a stable trajectory, and we have laid the groundwork to expand the program into digital offering and into other areas of the state. The purpose of these programs is to increase active management on private, non-industrial forest lands to increase returns and benefits to the landowner, enhance the resource, and ultimately retain New Jersey's forest resource in a healthy, productive condition. In addition, "Backyard Forestry in 90 Minutes", a monthly program targeting owners of less than five acres, homeowners, and others, reached 332people over 11 presentations ranging from tree culture, risk management, wildlife connections and management best practices. The purpose of these programs is to increase active management on private, non-industrial forest lands to increase returns and benefits to the landowner, enhance the resource, and ultimately retain New Jersey's forest resource in a healthy, productive condition.
Publications
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Tree Identification Workshop, Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge, New Vernon, NJ
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Emerald Ash Borer Workshop for the "My Backyard Forestry" program
- Type:
Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Emerald Ash Borer Presentation: North Jersey residents. Newark NJ
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2017
Citation:
Zipse P. and Grabosky J. Emerald Ash Borer Update; NJ Woodland Stewards online newsletter #29, July 2017.
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