[MPWG] MPWG Digest, Vol 70, Issue 2

[Bridget Molloy]

Hey....maybe this is of interest or is something you should look up since it
deals with agro-forestry (fruit tree form...?!) *Agriculture Task Force Ch.
289 of the Acts of 2006*:

"Fifth, the Act speaks throughout about the importance of an Agro-Forestry
alliance consistent and responsive to the findings and recommendations of
the Incentives for Agriculture Task Force (Chapter
289 of the Acts of 2006) via its October 2007 Final Report to the Governor
and the General Assembly."

B


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>   1. Message from Dr. James Duke (Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov)
>   2. Maryland Sustainable Forestry Act & the implication for
>      medicinal plants (Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:04:22 -0400
> From: Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov
> Subject: [MPWG] Message from Dr. James Duke
> To: mpwg at lists.plantconservation.org
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> Hello All!
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> Passing along a message from Dr. James Duke, whom I consider the Father of
> Modern Medicinal Botany (to distinguish him from Dr. Richard Evans
> Schultes, the Father of Modern Ethnobotany).  What I like about Dr. Duke
> is the way he incorporates herbs into his everyday life and packages it in
> a way that makes it interesting and useful for others.  Here below, you
> can see that he's at it again!
>
> -Patricia
>
> Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
> Botanist - Division of Scientific Authority
> Chair - Plant Conservation Alliance - Medicinal Plant Working Group
> US Fish & Wildlife Service
> 4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 110
> Arlington, VA  22203
> 703-358-1708 x1753
> FAX: 703-358-2276
> Working for the conservation and sustainable use of our green natural
> resources.
> <www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal>
>
> ----- Forwarded by Patricia De Angelis/ARL/R9/FWS/DOI on 06/04/2009 12:47
> PM -----
>
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> May 29, 2009
>
>
> Greetings!
>
> It has been a busy week in the garden with several press appearances,
> followed by the launch of my new website GreenPharmacy.com.
>
>
>
> Eat your weed-ies
>
> First, I was featured in an article about edible weeds in Wednesday's May
> 27 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Not only am I quoted in the article
> "It's Salad Days for Weeds," but reporter Anne Marie Chaker produced a
> folksy video interview with me that is available to online viewers. Read
> the article here or go directly to the video.
>
> Article:
> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124338226000356493.html>
> Video:
> <
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124338226000356493.html#articleTabs%3Dvideo
> >
>
> One thing leads to another and yesterday reporter Brittany Morehouse from
> the Washington DC CBS station was in the garden for another interview that
> aired locally last night on the 11 o'clock news. You can view the segment
> at WUSA9.
>
> Segment: <http://www.wusa9.com/video/default.aspx?mid=1136011363>
>
> These media appearances give a good reason for me to start talking about
> my all new website, GreenPharmacy.com, subtitled "Dr. Jim Duke's Botanical
> Desk Reference" and produced in collaboration with Janel Hopper
> Associates. On the site, we are collecting many of my past and present
> writings. It should be a convenient way for people to keep up with my
> ongoing activities.
>  Website: <http://www.greenpharmacy.com/>
> I'd be pleased if you would come by to have a look and let me know what
> you think about it by replying to this message. You may also forward this
> message to others  you think would be interested.
>
> Reply: jimduke at greenpharmacy.com
>
> My thanks to Aceer Foundation for its generous sponsorship of the site.
>
> Sincerely,
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> Jim Duke
> GreenPharmacy.com
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:23:18 -0400
> From: Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov
> Subject: [MPWG] Maryland Sustainable Forestry Act & the implication
>        for     medicinal plants
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> This excerpt from Maryland's new Sustainable Forestry Act (see e-mail
> below) would indicate that this new Act provides another incentive for
> maintaining private, forested lands in a sustainable manner.
>
> "Further, we recognize the importance of working forests and will ensure
> that public policies and market-based incentives help families retain and
> manage these forests sustainably."
>
> I have some questions for the list:
> In Maryland, do Forest Stewardship Plants look beyond the trees and take
> medicinal plants and other NTFPs in account?
> Do any of you have material that provides insight on the merits of
> including NTFPS in forest stewardship plans?
> What other states have similar Acts?
>
> Thanks,
> -Patricia
>
> Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.
> Botanist - Division of Scientific Authority
> Chair - Plant Conservation Alliance - Medicinal Plant Working Group
> US Fish & Wildlife Service
> 4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Suite 110
> Arlington, VA  22203
> 703-358-1708 x1753
> FAX: 703-358-2276
> Working for the conservation and sustainable use of our green natural
> resources.
> <www.nps.gov/plants/medicinal>
>
> ----- Forwarded by Patricia De Angelis/ARL/R9/FWS/DOI on 06/05/2009 10:13
> AM -----
>
>
> Don Outen, Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection &
> Resource Management, asked that we share the following and attached
> information about the recently passed MD Sustainable Forestry Act.  Please
> feel free to contact Gary G. Allen, Chairman, Maryland Partnership for
> Sustainable Forestry at gallenbay at aol.com or Don Outen directly at
> douten at baltimorecountymd.gov for additional information.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Meridian Institute
>
> Sarah Walen, Senior Mediator
> Shawn Walker, Project Coordinator
>
>
> ADVANCING A SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY STRATEGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
>
> Maryland moves Ahead
>
> Maryland made significant progress in the Bay watershed Region with the
> signing of Senate Bill 549 into law on May 7, 2009 - the Sustainable
> Forestry Act of 2009, sponsored by Senator Roy Dyson..  This Act is
> designed and intended to realize one goal - the retention of
> privately-owned forest lands within the State of Maryland consistent with
> and responsive to the 2007 Forestry Conservation Initiative signed by the
> Chesapeake Bay Council in December 2007.
>
> In short, the cure for the ills plaguing our coveted Chesapeake Bay can be
> found in our trees.  And Maryland clearly recognizes this fact with the
> enactment of the Sustainable Forestry Act of 2009*indeed, an historic Act
> which should serve as a model worthy of emulation not only within the Bay
> watershed, but from a national perspective as well.  As noted by
> Maryland*s State Forester - Steve Koehn on February 24, 2009 before the
> Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee
> - *The eyes of the Nation*s forest community are focused on Maryland. What
> you [as lawmakers] do on this bill will resonate throughout the
> country...hopefully, you will pass the bill.*  With less than 6 hours
> remaining in the 2009 Session, the amended Senate bill cleared the House
> of Delegates with no changes.
>
> A key argument for moving the bill emanated from the Chesapeake Bay
> Council*s issued Directive No. 06-1 entitled, Protecting the Forests of
> the Chesapeake Watershed, on September 22, 2006 which reads as
> follows:
>
> *Retaining and expanding forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is
> critical to our success in restoring the Chesapeake Bay.  Forests are the
> most beneficial land use for protecting water quality, due to their
> ability to capture, filter and retain water, as well as absorb pollution
> from the air*a reduction in forest area leads to a disproportionate
> increase in nitrogen loads to our waterways.*
>
> Then on December 5, 2007, the Chesapeake Bay Council issued *A Call to
> Action* by building on its earlier decision to underscore the importance
> of promoting sustainable forestry within the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
> Why?  The case was made officially clear by the Council on this date:
>
> *Chesapeake forests prevent millions of pounds of nitrogen and other
> pollutants from reaching the Bay each year.  While trends vary locally,
> the watershed has lost 100 acres of forest land per day since the
> mid-1980*s.  Every acre of forest converted to other uses means more
> nutrients entering the Bay, making it more difficult to mitigate
> development impacts and resulting in additional loss and fragmentation of
> forest habitat.  If this forest loss continues, nitrogen loads alone will
> increase by 1,300 pounds per day to the Bay.  As citizen and governmental
> agencies work to implement actions to reduce the flow of nutrients and
> sediment from agriculture, developed lands, and watershed treatment
> plants, their overall success is threatened by the loss of our watershed*s
> greatest natural filter:  its forests.  In fact, the public will spend
> billions of dollars on technological replacements for the services that
> forests provide naturally for free - such as drinking water filtration,
> flood control, storm water management, energy and greenhouse gas and air
> pollution control.
>
> Retaining and expanding forests across the watershed is a cost-effective
> strategy for reducing pollution now and maintaining caps on nutrients in
> the future.  An investment in sustainable forestry will not only help
> address water quality issues, but other challenges such as climate change,
> sprawl and energy independence.
>
>
> Therefore, it is our intent to maximize the area of forest by discouraging
> conversion of the most valuable forests and giving priority to forest in
> land conservation programs.  Further, we recognize the importance of
> working forests and will ensure that public policies and market-based
> incentives help families retain and manage these forests
> sustainably.*
>
> Without a healthy, sustainable forest system, it is an indisputable fact
> the Chesapeake will never heal as envisioned by the 1998 Water Quality
> Improvement Act, the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement, the 2007 Forest
> Conservation Initiative, Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund
> and the Governor*s Climate Change Commission.  Our forests are vanishing
> because of development pressures attendant to population growth and poorly
> planned sprawl development.  And, because 76% of our forests are owned by
> private landowners, promotion of sustainable forestry through responsive
> public policy must motivate and educate these individuals about the
> importance of and implications affiliated with sound land-use decision
> making.
>
> What to do?
>
>
> With its enactment, what does this historic Act actually accomplish?
>
> First, the Act recognizes the environmental and economic importance of
> sustainable forestry through a Declaration of Policy, among other things,
> to the Chesapeake Bay and rural Maryland consistent with and responsive to
> the 1998 Water Quality Improvement Act, Chesapeake 2000 Agreement, the
> 2007 Forest Conservation Initiative, and the Chesapeake and Atlantic
> Coastal Bays 2010 Trust Fund.
>
> Second, the Act promotes outreach to forest landowners to develop and
> implement Forest Stewardship Plans - a plan that sets forth land use
> objectives consistent with the will of the landowner - through the Forest
> Conservancy District Boards [one in each county].  At present, only 1 in 4
> forest landowners has adopted such a land-use guiding blueprint.
>
> Third, the Act promotes renewable energy development from woody-biomass
> via the existing 10% *green* power goal for the Executive Branch;
> long-term Power Purchase Agreements as envisioned by the Governor per his
> remarks made at the MACO summer convention in Ocean City; and futuristic
> carbon credit, carbon sequestration and cellulosic ethanol development
> from a policy-related perspective.
>
> Fourth, the Act promotes sustainable forestry from a local zoning
> perspective by encouraging local governments - not mandating local
> governments - to be more pro-forestry conscious in their decision-making.
>
> Fifth, the Act speaks throughout about the importance of an Agro-Forestry
> alliance consistent and responsive to the findings and recommendations of
> the Incentives for Agriculture Task Force (Chapter
> 289 of the Acts of 2006) via its October 2007 Final Report to the Governor
> and the General Assembly.
>
> This is made especially difficult because 76% of Maryland*s 2.4 million
> acres of forested lands are owned by private, non-industrial landowners
> who can exercise their private property rights to dispose of or management
> such lands at will.  Development pressure is real.
> Compounding these trends is the realization  of Maryland*s prevailing
> fiscal condition, meaning, millions of additional dollars are not
> available to help conserve Maryland*s vanishing forests through
> desperately needed financial incentives.  In short, Maryland*s forests are
> truly at risk and the enacted Sustainable Forestry Act of 2009 will help
> mitigate this dilemma through creative strategies today that will produce
> measurable dividends to Maryland*s *green infrastructure* tomorrow.
>
>
> The Partnership for Sustainable Forestry is an alliance of forestry,
> business and conservation organizations whose primary objective is to
> promote the prudent and sustainable management of Maryland*s rural and
> urban forest resources through advocacy, education, awareness and
> collaboration*.
>
> Chairman, Maryland Partnership for Sustainable Forestry, Gary G. Allen.
> gallenbay at aol.com
>
> __________________________________
> Shawn Walker
> Project Coordinator | Meridian Institute
> 1920 L Street NW, Suite 500
> Washington, DC 20036, United States
> +1.202.354.6450 phone
> +1.703.509.2396 mobile
> +1.202.354.6441 fax
> shawnwalker at merid.org
> www.merid.org
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