@article{hajjar_mcginley_charnley_frey_hovis_cubbage_schelhas_kornhauser_2024, title={Characterizing Community Forests in the United States}, volume={1}, ISSN={["1938-3746"]}, DOI={10.1093/jofore/fvad054}, abstractNote={
 Research on community forests (CFs), primarily governed and managed by local forest users in the United States, is limited, despite their growth in numbers over the past decade. We conducted a survey to inventory CFs in the United States and better understand their ownership and governance structures, management objectives, benefits, and financing. The ninety-eight CFs in our inventory are on private, public, and tribal lands. They had various ways of soliciting input from, or sharing decision-making authority with, local groups, organizations, and citizens. Recreation and environmental services were the most important management goals, but timber production occurred on more than two-thirds of CFs, contributing to income on many CFs, along with a diversity of other income sources to fund operations. We discuss the difficulties in creating a comprehensive CF inventory and typology given the diversity of models that exist, reflecting local social and environmental conditions and the bottom-up nature of community forestry in the United States.
 Study Implications: Despite their small footprint in the United States, community forests are a rapidly developing model of forest ownership, governance, and management that helps protect forestlands and open space and demonstrates how market and nonmarket forest goods and services can be produced for broad and enduring community benefits. This study inventories and characterizes community forests in the United States to increase understanding of this model, its prevalence, and its potential. It provides a baseline of information that serves as a foundation for further exploration and research on the impacts and contributions of community forests.}, journal={JOURNAL OF FORESTRY}, author={Hajjar, Reem and McGinley, Kathleen and Charnley, Susan and Frey, Gregory E. and Hovis, Meredith and Cubbage, Frederick W. and Schelhas, John and Kornhauser, Kailey}, year={2024}, month={Jan} }
 @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={
 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} }