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Tool Time: Melding Watershed And Site Goals On Private Lands, Gary Bentrup, Michele M. Schoeneberger, Mike Dosskey, Gary Wells, Todd Kellerman

USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications

Creating effective agroforestry systems with broad public support requires simultaneously addressing landowner and societal goals while paying respect to ecological processes that cross spatial and political boundaries. To meet this challenge, a variety of planning and design tools are needed that are straight-forward and flexible enough to accommodate the range of issues and the many individual decision-making processes involved. In this paper, we offer some principles that should be considered when developing planning and design tools for agroforestry. To illustrate how these principles might be used, we will present a few tools from the Comprehensive Conservation Buffer Planning project at …