The Implementation of the Northern Forest Lands Council’s Recommendations: An Analysis Six Years Later, February 2001
This 59-page report provides an assessment of federal and state progress in implementing the Northern Forest Land Council’s 37 recommendations in the entire four state area from Common Ground: The Recommendations of the Northern Forest Lands Council (see below). Implementation data was collected for each recommendation from telephone interviews, mail questionnaires, and legislative records, and verified this information with independent documentary data. This data was analyzed to determine if each recommendation was implemented; implemented, but not as the NFLC envisioned; partially implemented; partially implemented, but not as the NFLC envisioned; or not implemented.

Analysis [formatted and printer-friendly Adobe Acrobat PDF]
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Finding Common Ground: The Recommendations of the Northern Forest Lands Council, September 1994, Northern Forest Lands Council
In September 1994, the Northern Forest Lands Council (NFLC) published Finding Common Ground: Conserving the Northern Forest [hereinafter Finding Common Ground], a 178-page report with 37 recommendations directed at conserving the forests of the four-state region known as the Northern Forest (NFLC 1994a). Finding Common Ground was the by-product of one previous study and four years of in-depth research, data assessment, expert consultation, pubic meetings, and collaborative analysis. This effort was dedicated to maintaining the “traditional
patterns of land ownership and use in the Northern Forest,” which consists of the 26 million acres of contiguous forest land in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.
Recommendations [a number of formatted and printer-friendly Adobe Acrobat PDFs]