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Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale Forestry & Environmental Studies Publications School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Series 2017 Regional Supply Chains: Strengthening Urban- Rural Connections Around the Benefits from Natural Areas Bradford S. Gentry Eve Boyce Abigail Martin Max Webster Rachel Weston Follow this and additional works at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/fes-pubs Part of the Natural Resources and Conservation Commons Recommended Citation Gentry, Bradford S.; Boyce, Eve; Martin, Abigail; Webster, Max; and Weston, Rachel, "Regional Supply Chains: Strengthening Urban- Rural Connections Around the Benefits from Natural Areas" (2017). 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Gentry, Director The purpose of the Yale Program on Strategies for the Future of Conservation is: report title Regional Supply Chains: Strengthening Urban-Rural Connections • To support the efforts of the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, the Land Trust Alliance and similar private Around the Benefts from Natural Areas organizations to develop and apply new, innovative strategies for land conservation by linking the convening, research, and teaching activities at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies ever more closely to the needs of the land conservation community. report authors Bradford S. Gentry, Eve Boyce, Abby Martin, Maxwell Webster, and Rachel Weston Established by a gift from Forrest Berkley ’76 and Marcie Tyre, the Program has two parts: • Sponsoring student internships and research projects (through the Berkley Conservation report sponsor Yale Program on Strategies for the Future of Conservation Scholars program), to bring the passion, experience and creativity of Yale graduate students to bear on these issues; and acknowledgement The Yale Program on Strategies for the Future of Conservationwas started in 2005 with a most generous gift from Forrest Berkley • Convening workshops and other conversations across sectors and perspectives in the search for (Yale ’76) and Marcie Tyre. Additional support has also been new approaches to expanding the resources applied to land conservation in the United States. received from the Overhills Foundation, the Elmina B. Sewall Berkley Conservation Scholars are students of high potential who receive funding for their Foundation, the Land Trust Alliance and other anonymous research and professional experiences at the cutting edge of land conservation. Support is donors. The Yale students, faculty and staff involved in the available during both the school year and the summer, creating a virtual “R&D Department” for program are extremely grateful for this support. the U.S. land conservation community. The Berkley Conservation Scholars play a critical role in helping to bring together practitioners and academics in the search for new conservation tools. date of report April 2018 page layout/design Lynne M. Reichentahl, Yale Printing & Publishing Services The Yale Program on Strategies for the Future of Conservation is a major extension of the Yale cover images Designed by the Authors School of Forestry & Environmental Studies’ continuing efforts to enhance the effectiveness of land conservation. 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This report may be reproduced without written permission so long as proper attribution is made. publication series Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies To capture exciting environmental projects at Yale of interest to a broad professional audience, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Publication Series issues selected work by Yale faculty, students and colleagues each year in the form of books, bulletins, working papers and reports. All publications since 1995 are available for order as bound copies or as free downloadable .pdfs at our online bookstore at www.environment.yale.edu/publications. Publications are produced using a print-on-demand system and printed on 100% recycled paper. Regional Supply Chains: Strengthening Urban-Rural Connections Aroun the Benefts from Natural Areas Report of the 2017 Berkley Workshop Held at the Inn at helburne Farms, helburne, VT, June 2017 Bradford . Gentry, Eve Boyce, Abigail Martin, Max Webster and Rachel Weston yale school of forestry & environmental studies 2017 Table of Contents Intro uction an Participants 5 Bradford S. Gentry Summary of Major Themes an Areas for Action 8 Bradford S. Gentry Chapter 1: Why Are Regional Supply Chains an Important Topic Now? 23 Rachel Weston and Abby Martin Chapter 2: Watershe Investment for Rural-Urban Connectivity 40 Eve Boyce Chapter 3: Opportunities an Challenges for Regional Recreation 50 Rachel Weston Chapter 4: Buil ing Resilient Regional Economies Aroun Renewable Energy Development 64 Eve Boyce Chapter 5: Regional Markets for Soli -Woo Pro ucts 80 Maxwell Webster Biosketches of Authors 90 Cover photo cre its Mega Cities and Rural Areas: Linkages and Problems, Seismo Blogs (2013), http://www.seismoblogs.com/2013/08/mega-cities-and-rural-area-linkage-and_9.html #sthash.RcC8VtUQ.dpbs yale school of forestry & environmental studies introduction and participants 5 Intro uction an Participants Bradford S. Gentry Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies The “Berkley Workshops” are an annual exploration into the future of land conservation. Convened by Yale University and the Land Trust Alliance, each workshop explores a particu lar topic that most land trusts have not had the time, energy, or relationships to address. It does so by bringing together experts with whom land trusts would not typically collaborate in their daily work.1 As part of e≠orts to address these unsettled times, the 2017 Berkley Workshop explored the potential benefts that regional supply chains may provide—socially, environmentally and economically. Starting with some of the goods and services that natural areas supply—water, recreation, renewable energy and wood products—the workshop brought together partici pants from across the country and with varied interests to compare their experiences and identify useful paths forward. This year’s topic was chosen for a number of reasons, including the: • Growing disconnects across U.S. urban and rural populations/economies, as highlighted in the recent election • Working assumptions/hypotheses that: • “The best route to a healthy forest [or habitat] is a healthy forest economy;”2 and • Regional sources of/supply chains for needed goods and services provide valuable public benefts/goods that may be worth maintaining/investing in, even in the face of competition from “more e∞cient” global supply chains The workshop was structured to help inform and catalyze work going forward by drawing participants from: 1 The publications from prior year’s workshops can be downloaded from http://environment.research.yale.edu/publication-series/land_use_and_environmental_planning 2 As refected in the work of groups such as The Northern Forest Center (https://northernforest.org/) yale school of forestry & environmental studies 6 regional supply chains: strengthening urban-rural connections around the benefits from natural areas • Five major regions—Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Intermountain-West and Pacifc Northwest; • Four major resource sectors—water, recreation, renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass, hydro)3; and forest products;