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New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billion gallons. The city's Watershed Protection Program is intended to maintain and enhance the high quality of these surface water sources. Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program assesses the efficacy and future of New York City's watershed management activities. The report identifies program areas that may require future change or action, including continued efforts to address turbidity and responding to changes in reservoir water quality as a result of climate change.
S2Vermonts Use Value Appraisal (UVA) property tax program was designed to slow the rate of development of rural land, encourage prediction from agricultural and forest lands, and conserve and preserve a working rural landscape by making taxation of underdeveloped land more equitable. In 1987, more than 669,000 acres were enrolled in the UVA Forest Land Program, 18 percent of the potentially eligible forest land. Forest inventory statistics were produced for these lands using data collected in the fourth forest survey of Vermont. UVA forest land comprises slightly more than a billion cubic feet of growing stock, including 2.2 million board feet of sawtimber. Forest inventory data indicate that timberland in the UVA program mirrors Vermont timberland in general. It does not appear that a disproportionate amount of poor sites or good sites are enrolled. Nor does the quantity or quality of the timber appear to be disproportionately representative. The projected net growth on UVA timberland could supply almost half the annual removals in the State. S3.
Forest Communities, Community Forests is a collection of stories about twelve communities in the United States and their efforts to protect and restore their community forests. It explores the struggles and opportunities faced by people as they work to invest in natural capital, reverse decades of poor forest practices, tackle policy gridlock, and address community as well as ecological health. The case studies are organized by the dominant themes in American community forestry today, with the basic premise that healthy ecosystems depend on healthy communities, and vice-versa. Unlike most studies of contemporary forestry, Forest Communities, Community Forests focuses on community well-being and, more generally, community concerns. While some recent studies have examined the environmental benefits of place-based resource management or collaborative processes, few have looked at community needs and concerns-beyond the question of how to entice locals to comply with 'new' forestry. It is our hope that these case studies will convey the importance of community-based forestry, and contribute to the understanding and development, and ultimately the success of new community-based initiatives in the U.S.