@article{hovis_frey_mcginley_cubbage_han_lupek_2022, title={Ownership, Governance, Uses, and Ecosystem Services of Community Forests in the Eastern United States}, volume={13}, ISSN={["1999-4907"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.3390/f13101577}, DOI={10.3390/f13101577}, abstractNote={Over time, community forests (CFs) have been established across the globe to meet various social, economic, and ecological needs. Benefits of CFs include conserving resilient forests and natural resources and ecosystem services, enhancing social and economic capital, and leveraging local and indigenous knowledge in forest and natural resource management and decision-making. Research on CFs in the U.S. is quite limited, and cases that have been assessed show a wide spectrum in terms of CF ownership, organizational structure, governance, property rights, and uses. Through an exploratory research approach, this study enhances the understanding of the characteristics of CFs in the U.S. and the ecosystem services and other benefits that they provide. Through online web searches, we compiled one of the first comprehensive lists of CFs in the Eastern U.S. Prior to this study, there was no publicly available comprehensive database or list of CFs in the country. Subsequently, we conducted comparative case study research, which included semi-structured in-person interviews with key stakeholders from four CFs in the Eastern U.S. to understand CF ownership, governance, uses, and benefits. CFs benefits frequently included cultural services, such as recreation and education, and regulating and supporting services, such as water quality and wildlife habitat. Much less common was a focus on provisioning services such as timber or non-timber forest products. Maintaining collaboration and funding for CF efforts in the long run without significant CF revenues remains a challenge for most forests. Overall, this research sheds lights on CF characteristics and capacities in the Eastern U.S. and identifies potential opportunities and needs for the U.S. in the future. CFs researchers, managers, and community members.}, number={10}, journal={FORESTS}, author={Hovis, Meredith and Frey, Gregory and McGinley, Kathleen and Cubbage, Frederick and Han, Xue and Lupek, Megan}, year={2022}, month={Oct} }
 @article{mcginley_guldin_cubbage_2019, title={Forest Sector Research and Development Capacity}, volume={117}, ISSN={["1938-3746"]}, DOI={10.1093/jofore/fvz030}, abstractNote={Abstract Current trends in the nation’s forest-sector research capacity were analyzed in terms of funding and number of scientists, and compared with prior data in the National Research Council’s 2002 report, National Capacity in Forestry Research. The total number of professors at institutions with academic programs accredited by the Society of American Foresters, research scientists at the USDA Forest Service, and forest researchers in forest industry decreased approximately 12 percent since 2002. In 2016, there were an estimated 1,224 professors and 540 Forest Service research scientists, for a total of 1,764 scientists. Total estimated research funding in 2015 for universities, private sector, and USDA Forest Service, including appropriations from federal grant programs from the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Department of Energy was US$598 million—a nominal increase over 2002, but a decrease when accounting for inflation. The proportion of reported scientists’ disciplines shifted notably from production subjects to broader ecosystem services and forest health subjects, as well as from more applied to more fundamental or basic research. The data indicated that the nation’s forest research capacity continues to erode, leading to declines in research development and innovation, and putting at increasing risk the future health and productivity of America’s forests.}, number={5}, journal={JOURNAL OF FORESTRY}, author={McGinley, Kathleen A. and Guldin, Richard W. and Cubbage, Frederick W.}, year={2019}, month={Sep}, pages={443–461} }
 @article{siry_cubbage_potter_mcginley_2018, title={Current Perspectives on Sustainable Forest Management: North America}, volume={4}, ISSN={2198-6436}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40725-018-0079-2}, DOI={10.1007/s40725-018-0079-2}, number={3}, journal={Current Forestry Reports}, publisher={Springer Nature}, author={Siry, Jacek P. and Cubbage, Frederick W. and Potter, Kevin M. and McGinley, Kathleen}, year={2018}, month={Jul}, pages={138–149} }