1. National Objective: Conserve Working Forests
    1. S. E. Threats
      1. Identify high priority forest ecosystems and landscapes
        1. Land Ownership Changes
          1. Absentee LO
          2. Family Farms
          3. Breaking up land into smaller pieces
          4. Fragmentation
          5. Parcelization
          6. TIMOs and REITs?
        2. Development
          1. Development Pressures and Risks - Urbanization
          2. Housing Density
          3. Population Interaction Zones (PITA)
        3. Population
          1. Current
          2. Projected trends
        4. Demographics
          1. Age
          2. Gender
          3. Race
        5. Land Use Patterns
          1. Current patterns
          2. Forestry
          3. Forest Statistics of NC
          4. FIA Data
          5. Agriculture
          6. Subsidies
          7. Crop data
          8. Changing patterns
          9. Loss of cropland
          10. Loss of forestland
          11. Ownership structure
        6. Infrastructure takings (DOT, ROW easements, ETJ Zoning)
          1. Planning
          2. Zoning
          3. Policies
        7. Economic Viability of Local Markets & Business
          1. Subgroup w/Sustainability
    2. Sustainability
      1. Identify viable and high potential working forest landscapes
        1. Targeted Landowner assistance
        2. Actively and sustainably manage forests
      2. Infrastructure for markets; maintain and enhance
    3. Ecosystem
      1. ID opportunities for access to emerging ecosystem service markets
        1. Multi-landowner aggregations
        2. landscape scale planning
  2. National Objective: Protect Forests from Harm
    1. Forest Health
      1. Identify, manage and reduce threats to forest and ecosystem health
        1. Other
          1. fire exclusion in fire dependent ecosystems
          2. Subgroup w/Sustainability; Wildfire Risk
          3. Vectoring insects and diseases thur the movement of firewood
        2. Biotic
          1. EDRR
          2. Diseases
          3. Laurel Wilt
          4. Insects
          5. Redbay Ambrosia Beetle
          6. Emerald Ash Borer
          7. Subgroup w/Urban Forests
          8. Asian Longhorn Beetle
          9. Subgroup w/Urban Forests
          10. Sirex Woodwasp
          11. NNI Weeds
          12. Cogongrass
          13. Others not yet discovered
          14. Major
          15. Diseases
          16. Fusiform Rust
          17. Annosum Root Disease
          18. Littleleaf Disease
          19. Oak Decline Complex
          20. Insects
          21. Balsam Wooly Adelgid
          22. Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
          23. Southern Pine Beetle
          24. Gypsy Moth
          25. Subgroup w/Urban Forests
          26. Moderate
          27. Diseases
          28. Oak Wilt
          29. Pitch Canker
          30. Beech Bark Disease
          31. Butternut Canker
          32. Insects
          33. Low
          34. Diseases
          35. Dogwood Anthracnose
          36. White Pine Decline
          37. Insects
          38. IPS-Pine Engraver Beetle
          39. Fall Cankerworm
          40. Subgroup w/Urban Forests
          41. Black Turpentine Beetle
          42. Pales/Reproduction Weevil
          43. Fall Webworm
          44. Forest Tent Caterpillar
          45. Pine Sawflies
          46. Nantucket Pine Tip Moth
          47. Black Twig Borer
          48. Very Minor
          49. Diseases
          50. Hypolxylon Canker
          51. Sycamore Anthracnose
          52. Pine Needle Cast
          53. Brown Spot Needle Blight
          54. Insects
          55. Eastern Tent Caterpillar
          56. Locust Leaf Miner
          57. Pine Bark Adelgid
          58. Present Non-native invasive weeds
          59. Develop ranking system
        3. Abiotic
          1. Weather
          2. Drought
          3. Direct damage
          4. Weakened trees
          5. Storm damage
          6. Damage to trees
          7. Inundation/flooding
          8. Saltwater intrustion
          9. Ice damage
          10. Damage to trees
          11. Climate/Atmosphere
          12. Global temperature change
          13. Urban heat island
          14. Subgroup w/Urban Forests
          15. Rise in sea level/saltwater intrusion
          16. Air pollution
          17. Ground level ozone
          18. Sulphur deposition (acid rain)
          19. Nitrogen deposition
    2. Wildfire Risk
      1. ...reduce risk of wildfire impacts
  3. National Objective: Enhance public benefits from trees
    1. Maintain and enhance the economic benefits and values of trees and forests
      1. Economic attributes
        1. Sustainability
          1. Employment
          2. Forestry based
          3. Enhanced property values
          4. exploring the value of timber
          5. Aesthetic values
          6. Impact of wildfire, pests, invasives on productivity
          7. Subgroup w/Wildfire Risk; Forest Health
        2. Urban Forests
          1. Reduced heating/cooling costs
          2. Aesthetic values
        3. Ecosystems
          1. Reduced water storage and treatment costs
          2. Climate change buffering
          3. Subgroup w/Forest Health
          4. Reduced flood risks and impacts
        4. Wildfire Risk
          1. Reduced fire suppression costs and impacts
          2. Reducing risk to communities from wildfire
      2. Open Space
      3. Renewable materials
        1. Identify forest landscapes that have current or near term access to markets
          1. Sustainability
          2. Traditional
          3. Timber Mfg
          4. Membership in Logging
          5. Annual Growth and removals
          6. Agroforestry
          7. Non-timber
          8. Plant based
          9. galax
          10. Pine straw
          11. Mushrooms
          12. tipping
          13. others...
          14. animal based
          15. Deer
          16. ducks
          17. others...
          18. Emerging markets
          19. Ecosystems
          20. Ecosystem services
          21. Water supply
          22. Carbon
          23. Sustainability
          24. Biomass
          25. Wood to energy markets
      4. Sustainability
        1. Connect people to trees and forests
          1. Recreation
          2. Economic benefit of recreation to the local economy
          3. Hunting, fishing, birdwatching
          4. Eco-tourism
          5. Education, outreach and research
          6. ...engage them in environmental stewardship activities
          7. Cultural heritage
          8. Archeological
          9. Scenic Values
          10. Visual aesthetics
    2. Ecosystem
      1. Protect and enhance water quality and quantity (TG)
      2. Improve air quality and conserve energy (TG)
      3. Manage and restore trees and forests to mitigate and adapt to global climate change
        1. Subgroup w/Forest Health
    3. Wildfire Risk
      1. Assist communities in planning for and reducing wildfire risks (JP)
    4. Sustainability
      1. Protect, conserve and enhance wildlife and fish habitat
        1. ID forest landscapes that:
          1. Contribute to viable habitat (contiguous or connected)
          2. Contain high species richness
          3. Endemism
          4. Native plant communities?
          5. Represent core habitat for focal conservation species
          6. Species of concern
          7. Rare species
          8. T&E species
          9. Keystone species
          10. Restoration of declining ecosystems
          11. Current conditions and trends
          12. Economic
          13. Social
          14. Ecological
          15. Longleaf
          16. Shortleaf
          17. Chestnut
          18. Butternut
          19. Keystone species in decline
          20. Others...
          21. Opportunities for future restoration efforts
          22. Restore fire-adapted lands...
          23. Subgroup w/Forest Health; Wildfire Risk