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NP 4 Pillars
Across the Forest
Management Areas
Geographic Areas
Collaboration
100

Collaborative Capacity

Safety

Sustainable Recreation

Restoration

What are the 4 Pillars of the Nantahala and Pisgah Forests Plan Revision?
100
A ____ provides a general framework for managing the forest over the next 10-15 years.
What is a forest plan? (or Forest Land and Resource Management Plan)
100
While the majority of the forest plan direction is contained in the Forestwide Chapter, there are areas of the forest that have similar management intent and a common management strategy. these areas are know as _____.
What are Management Areas? 
100
These 12 areas contain distinct landscapes, allowing the Forest Plan to recognize the unique opportunities in each part of the forest including restoration and sustainable recreation opportunities, connections to nearby communities, and opportunities for partnerships with the public, other organizations and governments.
What are Geographic Areas?
100
Local community members and governments, organizations, tribes and other stakeholders are all included in this process.
What is collaboration?
200
Working with local residents, governments, tribes and organizations to make the revised plan fully supported and implementable.
What is collaboration?
200
_______ describes management for the entire forest. Made up of Desired Conditions, Objectives, Standards and Guidelines, and Management Approaches.
What is Forestwide Direction?
200
Management areas ensure consistent approaches to achieving desired conditions and objectives across the forests. Each management area emphasizes different aspects of the vision established in the forest plan themes and Forestwide desired conditions. A distinct set of plan components for each management area provides for its __________.
What are unique areas of emphasis?
200
Geographic areas were defined by landscape characteristics, including geologic features, topography, hydrology and water features as well as forest types and vegetation composition. Additionally, these areas were refined by __________.

What is public Use?

Cultural and historical elements, recreational opportunities and experiences and the consideration of local communities were all factors shaping the development of Geographic areas.

200
Development of these landscape categories was the result of collaboration with stakeholders along with the incorporation of the best available scientific information.
What are Management Areas and Geographic Areas?
300

Fire

Flash floods

Waterfall safety

Landslides

Acid producing rocks

What are safety concerns?
300

Enhancing and Restoring Resiliency

Providing Clean and Abundant Water

connecting People to the Land

What are the themes of the revised Nantahala and Pisgah Forests Plan?
300
The concept and spatial arrangement of the general forest management areas were derived by using the principles of both ______ and ____.
What is landscape ecology and human benefits-based management?
300
Geographic areas and _________ areas work together to identify where activities will occur on the landscape.
What are Management areas?
300
The current forest plan revision effort is being guided by the USDA National Forest System (NFS) 2012 Planning Rule. The rule's intent is to guide the maintenance and restoration of NFS land and water ecosystems while providing for ecosystem services and multiple uses. It requires the use of best available scientific information and emphasizes providing meaningful opportunities for public participation at these points in the process.
When is early and throughout the planning process?
400
This ___ includes the environmental, social and economic impacts of the Forest Service's developed and primitive outdoors recreational opportunities.
What is Sustainable Recreation?
400
Objectives under this theme address maintaining and improving the diversity of forest structure (age classes or seral stages) and composition (species); managing using silvicultural and fire tools; managing for wildlife habitat and rare species and communities; and controlling noxious weed and invasive plants.
What is Enhancing and restoring resiliency?
400
When viewed as a complete forest landscape, these management areas work together to form a network of patches, edges, corridors and mosaics. _________ are patches of various sizes and shapes formed by a combination of networks, disturbances and other change factors.
What are mosaics?
400
__ are designed to be strategic to support future projects and activities without actually prescribing the precise activity that will take place. They help focus the Forestwide objectives of the Plan while still enagbling future projects to make the best localized decision when the time is ripe.
What are (Geographic Area) goals?
400
The National Forests in North Carolina has already hosted over 40 public meetings and received more public input than is thought to have been offered on any other forest. This is the result of public interest and an emphasis on collaboration. The next round of public open houses will be offered at this point in the process.
When is when the draft plan and Environmental Impact Statement are released in Summer 2018?
500

The nation's National Forests face challenges from multiple sources, including but not limited to overuse, invasive species, the increasing frequency and extent of severe wildfires, and insect and disease outbreaks. These threats can degrade the health of the forests and endanger communities that neighbor them. To address these challenges, the National Forests in North Carolina has identified ____ as a central pillar in its plans to steward the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests.

What is restoration (efforts)?
500
Objectives of this theme include moving toward a more ecologically, socially and economically sustainable recreation program through implementing collaborative recreation planning with stakeholders and local communities and through maintaining and operating priority developed recreation sites to an acceptable level
What is Connecting People to the Land?
500
There are 14 different Management Areas identified in the draft forest plan, ranging from the broad general forest area labeled Matrix, to Roan Mountain Management Area managed for its unique scenic and ecological elements. What Management Area represents the birthplace of American forestry?
What is the Cradle of Forestry in America?
500
Each of the 12 Geographic Areas have descriptions of how the area relates to the 3 main themes of the plan. They may also have sections listing 3 additional areas of consideration.
What are goals, unique features and opportunities to partner with others?
500

Your participation in the collaborative process of managing national forest lands supports the mission of sustaining the health, diversity and productivity of the nation's forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.  This summary of that mission statement: "to promote the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people in the long run", was stated by _____.

Who was Gifford Pinchot?