Jonathan Kusel

Across the United States, people are developing new relationships with the forest ecosystems on which they depend, with a common goal of improving the health of the land and the well-being of their communities. Practitioners and supporters of what has come to be called community forestry are challenging currapproaches to forest managemas they seek to end the historical disfranchisemof communities and workers from forest managemand the all-too-pervasive trends of long-term disinvestmin ecosystems and human communities that have undermined the health of both.

Community Forestry in the United States is an analytically rigorous and historically informed assessmof this new movement. It examines the currstate of community forestry through a grounded assessmof where it stands now and where it might go in the future. The book not only clarifies the state of the movement, but also suggests a trajectory and process for its continued development.