With a 310-107 vote yesterday evening, the House of Representatives agreed to pass the Senate-approved Great American Outdoors Act, sending the bipartisan bill to President… Read More

Wildfire, pests, and disease are landscape-wide forest threats that must be addressed at the landscape scale. Improvements to Good Neighbor Authority will help state, local,… Read More

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an ailing national economy, and a substantial backlog in federal forest management and rural infrastructure maintenance, the nation's state foresters have… Read More

Greater support for state forestry agencies and their work to sustain, enhance, and protect America's forests is needed now more than ever. Amid the COVID-19… Read More

On June 30, the National Association of State Foresters submitted comments on the current Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Standards Revision Process: There is one area… Read More

In a letter to the director of the National Economic Council and a senior advisor to the president on Wednesday, the National Association of State… Read More

By Tyler Hoguet You generally won't see the Firefighter Property Program (FFP) and the Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP) program included in NASF's annual appropriations recommendations;… Read More

By Tyler Hoguet This week was a busy one for state foresters on Capitol Hill. George Geissler, Laura McCarthy, and Thom Porter all appeared (virtually)… Read More

By Tyler Hoguet (Image sources are linked below) As recently as 2017, just 11% of adults living in North America (surveyed by the North American Forest… Read More

The Wildfire Mitigation Awards Committee is pleased to invite nominations for 2021 Wildfire Mitigation Awards. Established in 2014, the national Wildfire Mitigation Awards program recognizes… Read More

Guest post by Kristen Miller The Northeast-Midwest State Foresters Alliance (NMSFA) has named Jerry Grossman the Cooperative Forest Management Forester of the Year. Jerry received… Read More

Guest post by Aaron Smith Doing fun activities as a family allows you to bond and provides you with a wealth of memories. The simple… Read More