The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has announced the selection of three areas as "Forest Investment Zones" under a multi-million dollar initiative designed to advance healthy working forests and vibrant forest-reliant communities across America.

The organizations and areas identified as Forest Investment Zones are: Mountain Association for Community Economic Development in Berea, Kentucky focusing on Appalachian communities and forests in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio; The Northern Forest Center in Concord, New Hampshire, representing a 30-million acre swath of forests and communities across northern New York, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine; and Sustainable Northwest of Portland, Oregon that will work on "dry-side primarily publicly-owned forests" stretching from northeastern Oregon to northern California.