NASF Letters

The President of NASF and Committee chairs often send letters to Congress, the USDA Forest Service and other partners urging their support of important forestry issues. Below are the most recent of those letters.

2007  2006  2005  2004  2003

2008

March 28, 2008
FLAME Act
To Congressmen Nick Rahall, Raul Grijalva, and Norman Dicks
Re: Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act (FLAME Act) (PDF)

February 7, 2008
Forests in the Farm Bill Coalition
To Representatives John Dingell and Joe Barton
Re: Definition of renewable biomass in the Energy Bill (PDF)

2007

October 24, 2007
Forests in the Farm Bill Coalition
To Senators Tom Harkin and Saxby Chambliss
Re: Family-owned forests in the 2007 Farm Bill (PDF)

October 9, 2007
Kirk Rowdabaugh, NASF President
To Senator Ron Wyden
Re: Combat Illegal Logging Act of 2007 (PDF)
 

March 8, 2007
E.Austin. Short, III, NASF President
To Senator Blanche L. Lincoln
Re: Endangered Species Recovery Program (PDF)
 

2006

August 15, 2006
James B. Hull, NASF President
To Natural Resources Conservation Service
Re: Healthy Forests Reserve Program interim final rule (PDF)

April 17, 2006
James B. Hull, NASF President
To Environmental Protection Agency
Re: Comments on proposed rule for revising the particulate matter national ambient air quality standards (PM NAAQS) (PDF)

April 4, 2006
NASF and 31 Other Organizations
To Various Senators and Representatives
Re: The Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (PDF)

2005

December 2, 2005
James B. Hull, NASF President
To Various Senators and Representatives
Re: Timber Tax Act of 2005 (H.R. 3883) (PDF)

September 21, 2005
NASF, the Society of American Foresters and The Nature Conservancy
To Chair and Ranking Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies And Chair and Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies
Re: Fiscal Year 2006 Appropriations for the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Emerging Plant Pests (PDF)

September 19, 2005
Pat McElroy, NASF President
And
Richard Courter, Association of Consulting Foresters President
To
NASF and ACF Membership
Re:
NASF and ACF Partnership
(PDF)

July 29, 2005
Pat McElroy, NASF President
To S. Richard Fedrizzi, President, Chairman and Founding CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council
Re: New Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Building Standards (PDF)

July 12, 2005
Pat McElroy, NASF President
To Various Representatives
Re: Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act (H.R. 3187) (PDF)

July 12, 2005
Pat McElroy, NASF President
To Various Senators
Re: Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act (S. 1215) (PDF)

June 24, 2005
Pat McElroy, NASF President
To Senator Pete V. Domenici
Re: Tongass Amendment to FY 2006 Interior Appropriations Bill (PDF)

2004

October 5, 2004
Pat McElroy, NASF President
To Financial Assistance Program Division, NRCS
Re: Interim Final Rule for Implementing the Conservation Security Program (PDF)

September 21, 2004
Burnell C. Fischer, NASF President
To Representative Madeline Z. Bordallo
Re: Amendment to the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 (PDF)

May 18, 2004
Burnell C. Fischer, NASF President
To Joel Holtrop, Deputy Chief of S&PF, USDA Forest Service
Re: Allocation Formula for the Urban and Community Forestry Program (PDF)

March 17, 2004
Burnell C. Fischer, NASF President
To David Billingsley, National Fire Weather Program Leader, National Weather Service - NIFC
Re: National Weather Service's Proposed Policy Change (PDF)

January 21, 2004
Burnell C. Fischer, NASF President
To Coordinator Kathryn M. Dresser, J.D., Laws and Metrics Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Re: Proposal "232-3 Change Scaling Methods for Trees, Sawlogs & Veneer Logs" (PDF)

January 20, 2004
Burnell C. Fischer, NASF President
To Director of Watersheds and Wetlands Division, USDA NRCS
Re: Emergency Watershed Protection Program (PDF)

January 8, 2004
Burnell C. Fischer, NASF President
To Security of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman
Re: Restoration of Funding for the Forest Land Enhancement Program (PDF)

2003

April 25, 2003
James L. Sledge, NASF President
To Representative Scott McInnis, Chairman of the
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources,
Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health
Re: Healthy Forests Restoration Act (PDF)