FOR-176/FR244 Forest Management in the Interface: Forest Cooperatives

Figure 3. Members of the Blue Ridge Forest Cooperative discuss cooperative management options.
FOR-176, a 7-page illustrated fact sheet by Sarah F. Ashton, Bruce Hull, Rien M. Visser and Martha C. Monroe, describes this bottom-up, voluntary approach to implementing coordinated ecosystem management among multiple owners of fragmenting interface forestland — types of cooperatives, benefits, costs and reservations, funding. Includes suggestd reading and references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, August 2008.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FR244