Cooley-Jericho Community Forest
Stewardship Plan
What is in the Plan and How to Use it
This plan contains three narrative sections:
Section I - Creating the CJCF & Section II - Across the CJCF
Section III - Management Compartments of CJCF
and two reference and map sections:
Section IV - References and Appendices
Section V - Maps
The narrative sections of the stewardship plan, Sections I, II, and III, were written and organized to allow you, the reader, to easily engage in specific portions of the property or better understand specific uses of the property, without having to read the entire plan.
Sections I and II include background, ecological, and management information for the entire property, while Section III details specific management compartments.
To download any of the sections please click on the links in orange at the top of the page or in the menu at the top left of this page. Sections I and II are available as one document. Each compartment or subsection within Section III is available as a separate document. Lastly, Section IV is available as one document, and each map within Section V is also available individually.
Section I includes background and administrative information about the CJCF, including details on its acquisition, governance, and permitted and restricted uses. Anyone interested in engaging in stewardship of the property as a whole or using the property in a specific manner should read this section.
Section II includes information relevant to the whole property. It not only includes property-wide findings and details on the site’s natural and cultural features, it includes management goals and actions for stewarding the property’s collective recreation, education, wildlife and timber resources. Anyone interested in engaging in stewardship of the property as a whole should read this section in its entirety. Anyone interested in learning about the property’s natural and cultural history should also read this section. However, anyone interested in using or stewarding just one facet of the property’s diverse natural and cultural resources, should read the property-wide goals and objectives and then the relevant subsections. Readers interested in the trails, for example, could read the goals and objectives and then proceed to the “Recreation Trails on the CJCF” subsection. A word of caution: the property is being managed under a mixed-use system and there is a strong integration between many of the uses. The recreation trails, for example, are also being developed as an educational resource and may also be used for wildlife and forest management. Reading subsections in isolation may result in an incomplete picture of how resources are being stewarded.
Section III describes the property’s management compartments. The property has been subdivided into 10 Ecosystem Management Compartments (see Ecosystem Management Compartment Map) to facilitate management and planning. Section III, which includes the bulk of this plan, includes compartment-level findings and stewardship actions. This section is not intended to be read in its entirety. Readers should directthemselvestotheEcosystemManagementCompartments relevant to their area of interest. If readers are interested in learning about the forest near the Trumpet Round Road entrance, for example, they should read the Northern Bench Ecosystem Management Compartment section. It may be helpful, but not necessary, to read about the other compartments.
