{"content":[{"text":"4. Promoting Community Forests as a Strategy to Protect and Expand Working \n Forests – Community forests offer many financial and other incentives to towns and other \n entities as a strategy to provide: woody biomass for heat and energy; source water protection; \n income from forest products; and recreational opportunities.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.08897,"width":0.7330319999999999,"height":0.08028800000000003}},{"text":"5. Advancing Forest Health through Biotechnology – Biotechnology, when developed \n and deployed in ways that are scientifically-based, properly vetted and socially supported, and in \n compliance with regulatory protocols, could be an important tool in addressing challenges posed \n by threats such as invasive, exotic pests that threaten longleaf forests, and in accelerating \n restoration efforts for native plants within the longleaf ecosystem.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.181773,"width":0.7596320000000001,"height":0.10028800000000002}},{"text":"6. Supporting the National Conservation Easement Database – This will be the first, \n comprehensive database for privately held easements in the U.S. As such, it will be invaluable as \n a planning tool for longleaf conservation efforts.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.294576,"width":0.761295,"height":0.06028800000000001}},{"text":"Signatory","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.367591,"width":0.08176899999999998,"height":0.020984999999999976}},{"text":"________________________________","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.4445,"width":0.313725,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"February 16, 2011","bbox":{"left":0.588235,"top":0.4445,"width":0.14431400000000005,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"Carlton N. Owen, President and CEO \n U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.477152,"width":0.376347,"height":0.040211999999999914}},{"text":"Date","bbox":{"left":0.588214,"top":0.477152,"width":0.037024999999999975,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}