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Futuring Scenario 2020: MN - Connecting Energy/Food-Fiber/Natural Resource

Futuring Scenario 2020: MN - Connecting Energy/Food-Fiber/Natural Resource Objectives Across the Lands (Schoeneberger 2008). E. Guiding Principles : Managing for linking/connecting energy/ food-fiber/natural resource objectives across the landscape/landuses.

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Futuring Scenario 2020: MN - Connecting Energy/Food-Fiber/Natural Resource

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  1. Futuring Scenario 2020: MN - Connecting Energy/Food-Fiber/Natural Resource Objectives Across the Lands (Schoeneberger 2008) E • Guiding Principles: • Managing for linking/connecting energy/ food-fiber/natural resource objectives across the landscape/landuses. • Building in resilience/flexibility to address future economic/climate vagarities. • Better matching land-use/management to land capability. • Establishing a mixed, diversified bioenergy/biofuels platform. • Utilizing productive conservation options, esp. multi-species agroforestry practices, to restore & augment key ecosystem functions to support energy/food-fiber/natural resource objectives. • Bringing Landowner/Natural Resource Professionals/Industry/Community together to create shared/diversified vision. • Rotational cropping/structural diversity in time & space; esp for perennial cover. E A A • Assumptions: • Phase 1-3 biorefinery (1-grain/ethanol; 2-separate product streams & some feedstock/end product flexibility; 3-mixed feedstock and end-product capability) technologies on-line and facilities in place. • Urban/exurban development part of the landscape planning reality. • Multi-scalar tools/forums in-place to address planning & design for comprehensive site-to-landscape management w/in private ownership-dominated lands (i.e., see www.unl.edu/nac/research/publications.htm) Practices: Corn/ethanol Urban development Switchgrass/Herbaceous perennial Food crops Specialty crops SRWC for community use: Providing (food & medicinals) waste water treatment & producing feedstock for local heating/power. Agroforestry & Other Conservation Practices – Ecosystem Services A-A Expanded riparian: increased width in Zone 1 (herbaceous perennial) & Zone 2 (SRWC) for alternative feedstock; for on-farm heating/power use, for C-sequestration (C); wildlife habitat (WH) & travel corridor to connect critical patches (WC); provide native pollinator/natural enemy habitat; & providing addtl water quality (WQ) protection to mitigate adjacent crop production. B-B Urban riparian: green infrastructure for stormwater treatment, WQ, WC, C, recreational areas & trails; and aesthetics. C-C Expanded windbreak: snow/dust/pesticide drift barrier; microclimate modification for crop (MMC) &/or livestock; serve also as living snowfence for emergency route; C E-E Short rotation woody windbreaks: contracted out by industry for cellulosic; planted for also providing MMC, WQ; are sequentially harvested w/in row to always maintain some vertical structure for MMC. C Original artwork by Gary Bentrup Modified by Michele Schoeneberger USDA National Agroforestry Center

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