Day 1 Visioning: Ned by Melissa Bade https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq What does the future of this forest look like for you, if anything/everything is possible? en-us 2022-01-11 20:10:26 UTC 2022-01-14 19:32:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992486016 I would like to see our thought process go from me to we. The earth is not an object but a relation.

]]> 2022-01-14 15:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992486016 Includes people on the forest landscape https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992489154 2022-01-14 15:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992489154 Connected landscapes https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992489867 2022-01-14 15:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992489867 I would like to see more land stewardship as a commonality rather than a assignment https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992491073 2022-01-14 15:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992491073 https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992491495 Ecologically managed and wildland forests encompass "half-earth" in our eco-region.

]]> 2022-01-14 15:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992491495 Be more inclusive of all values https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992491645 2022-01-14 15:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992491645 Thomas Berry: "The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects." Interrelationship is not typically taught in our dominant culture. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992494397 2022-01-14 15:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992494397 Wholistic https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992494819 Forests are managed with the health of the forested ecosystem in mind and not the economic value of timber. From a spatial perspective, forests are stewarded as a landscape and not as separate properties with defined boundaries]]> 2022-01-14 15:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992494819 Capacity for working together: how do we build empathetic capacity to help individuals learn, engage, share, understand different ways of knowing, being, building knowledge. Individualism does not highlight or value this horizontal way of being. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992496088 2022-01-14 15:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992496088 https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992496218 Plant medicine keepers working with Allopathic practitioners 

]]> 2022-01-14 15:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992496218 There is capacity for empathy but we need to cultivate it. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992497688 2022-01-14 15:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992497688 seeing ourselves as an intrinsic part of the landscape - with air, land, animals, rocks being our equal relations https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992499584 2022-01-14 15:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992499584 that decisions are made with a long term view for the benefit of future generations https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992502397 2022-01-14 15:19:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992502397 Biocentric value and ethic. E.g., don't take the life of any being without valuing it/them. The way we treat land needs to fundamentally change. Change the ethos of humanity's inherent rights to dominate. Expand "half Earth" to value other species. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992503300 2022-01-14 15:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992503300 Biophilia. We have connection to land and biodiversity https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992504621 2022-01-14 15:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992504621 https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992505813 a cooperative network of future forest visionaries

]]> 2022-01-14 15:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992505813 Cherish relationship of humans with non-human world. Re-claim this relationship https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992505893 2022-01-14 15:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992505893 Ontological sense of individualism in western society. Ontological sense of collective "I am part of collective / of the forest." Empathy can build on the understanding that we are more than cerebrally connected. Action is connected to this sensibility of belonging and part of a whole (above being an individual) https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992508999 2022-01-14 15:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992508999 learn and respect ways of knowing and traditional laws from Indigenous peoples https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992510565 2022-01-14 15:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992510565 In community, people develop a sense of "we"; the process of working on plans can indeed cultivate a sense of a group. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992510637 2022-01-14 15:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992510637 caring for land vs managing the land https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992514015 2022-01-14 15:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992514015 Forests connote whole landscapes and connected organisms. When managing land we think about boundaries and "boxes"; bring parcel owners together to manage the forest as a connected landscape. Having grown up on a border community, I am aware that borders are artificial constructs. As a collective of countries and states, we can hold a different vision. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992515212 2022-01-14 15:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992515212 Adirondacks experiment "makes sense"--coordination, activity across public and private land. Bioregional scale is embedded in the history and management in this landscape. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992519640 2022-01-14 15:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992519640 Elephant in the room. Jurisdictions / the way lands are managed--public, industrial, private--each has different objectives by owners. This presents a challenge even if provinces set objectives for public lands. Private lands do not have regulation or guidance. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992530587 2022-01-14 15:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992530587 Land in Nova Scotia is on unceded land of the Mi'kmaq. People tend to forget that. The indigenous people have rights to determine the fate and use of the land. Musn't forget this. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992532731 2022-01-14 15:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992532731 Land taxation is a strong incentive or disincentive. Current use law: 25 ac or more; requires a forest management plan. If you provide forest products you can get this tax incentive. There is a proposal to expand the law to include wild forest (not timber forest products?); public benefits also derive from clean water, carbon sequestration, wildlife habitat. I'm struggling with the tax break for wealthy landowners who get to have a private forest park and receive a tax break. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992536523 2022-01-14 15:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992536523 Ontario also has a law that tends to benefit people with large tracts of land--those with capacity to influence tax law. Best tax deduction possible for Ontario. Rewards the rich... In New York there is also a benefit being discussed for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, ... https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992540556 2022-01-14 15:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992540556 There are landscape-level drivers and concerns that necessitate coordination. Equity concern: how to get resources where they are needed so that landowners with fewer resources may contribute and participate. Bring them into the tent. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992544827 2022-01-14 15:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992544827 Current use law: providing public benefits; would be good to map out key parcels. Wealthy landowners, conservation orgs, and those writing laws all getting together can inadvertently (or intentionally) exclude public will and good. Move beyond one-off opportunity. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992548157 2022-01-14 15:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992548157 One of most important points is when land changes hands from one generation to the next. The transition plan is critical for public good planning. Intergenerational wealth transfer--decision point about forest land. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992549823 2022-01-14 15:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992549823 I work in climate where we tend to think in terms of the primacy of policy and government. My vision is that this landscape become the focal point for shared values of connectivity across many cultures throughout the bioregion but without reliance on government policy exclusively. Our shared values are reflected in the land, biodiversity, clean water, and connectivity. https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992604868 2022-01-14 16:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992604868 Planning works as a way to get landowners on the same page about shared values https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992607627 2022-01-14 16:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mbade3/9r6feqq13o993kxq/wish/1992607627