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Slides: New England Forestry Foundation: Private Forests For The Public Good Since 1944, Frank Reed
Slides: New England Forestry Foundation: Private Forests For The Public Good Since 1944, Frank Reed
Community-Owned Forests: Possibilities, Experiences, and Lessons Learned (June 16-19)
Presenter: Frank Reed, New England Forestry Foundation
9 slides
Slides: Changes In Timberland Ownership: The New Hampshire Experience, Paul Doscher
Slides: Changes In Timberland Ownership: The New Hampshire Experience, Paul Doscher
Community-Owned Forests: Possibilities, Experiences, and Lessons Learned (June 16-19)
Presenter: Paul Doscher, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Concord, NH
20 slides
Slides: Community Forest Project: Grand Lake Stream, Maine, Steve Keith
Slides: Community Forest Project: Grand Lake Stream, Maine, Steve Keith
Community-Owned Forests: Possibilities, Experiences, and Lessons Learned (June 16-19)
Presenter: Steve Keith, Farm Cove Community Forest, Downeast, ME
62 slides
Slides: Changes In Timberland Ownership, Peter R. Stein
Slides: Changes In Timberland Ownership, Peter R. Stein
Community-Owned Forests: Possibilities, Experiences, and Lessons Learned (June 16-19)
Presenter: Peter R. Stein, General Partner, The Lyme Timber Company, Hanover, NH
14 slides
Stormwater Utility Fees: Considerations & Options For Interlocal Stormwater Working Group (Iswg), New England Environmental Finance Center
Stormwater Utility Fees: Considerations & Options For Interlocal Stormwater Working Group (Iswg), New England Environmental Finance Center
Economics and Finance
Stormwater utilities are a concept whose time seems to have arrived. Established by relatively few communities in the 1970s as a method of funding flood control measures, stormwater utilities now exist in over 400 municipalities and counties throughout the United States. During the next 10 years, their numbers are expected to swell dramatically – by one estimate to over 2,000 by the year 2014.
The reasons for this growth are multifold. Federal stormwater regulations passed in the 1980s (Phase I of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program, or NPDES), motivated many larger communities to seek alternative funding sources and …