By Kiera Quigley | This blog is cross-posted on Women Owning Woodlands. Since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, private landowners have had to be more thoughtful about what species might be living on their property and how certain activities can affect them. Very often, the presence of a threatened or endangered species on your [read more]
NASF teamed up with the USDA Forest Service's Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry team and the Northeastern Area Association of State Foresters last week to deliver tips and tricks for using social media. The resulting webinar—which was recorded and archived here—provided dynamic, customizable examples of messages and tried-and-true strategies for state forestry agencies and their partners to utilize [read more]
By Kiera Quigley Working forests provide American communities with invaluable benefits such as clean air, plentiful drinking water, and ample wildlife habitat. Since 1990, the Forest Legacy Program has helped keep working forests working, and in turn, providing these and a multitude of other public benefits on over 2.6 million acres across 53 states and [read more]
By Whitney Forman-Cook Right now, more than 80 million acres of forests in United States are at risk of damage from insects and disease. Without remediation, about 25% of our nation's trees will die by 2027 due to these threats. Because forest pests and disease know no boundaries, forest health initiatives must take an all-lands [read more]
By Zoe Bommarito Did you know that the Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) Program was created to enhance outcomes for USDA Forest Service cooperative forestry programs? In a nutshell, this critically important program allows for the most cost-effective and coordinated implementation of crucial cross-boundary forest management projects nationwide. LSR grants address forestry issues of national importance that the states have prioritized in their Forest [read more]
By Whitney Forman-Cook Seven state foresters visited with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday to express the importance of robust funding for state and private forestry programs and a permanent wildfire funding fix. These two priority issues, the state foresters explained, are directly connected and deserve Congress' attention. State forestry agencies, and the state foresters who lead them, leverage federal dollars provided [read more]
In a press release this morning, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue unveiled his department's 2018 farm bill and legislative priorities. "These principles," the head of the USDA said, "are our way of letting Congress know what we’ve heard from the hard-working men and women of American agriculture." Among the secretary's priorities are the following forestry-specific goals, which the nation's 59 [read more]
By Whitney Forman-Cook On Monday, December 11, 2017, the National Association of State Foresters joined a select group of forestry and wildfire policy stakeholders at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., to discuss ways we can work together to prevent severe and catastrophic wildfires. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue hosted the summit, and [read more]
By Ryan Martini This week, members of the National Association of State Foresters and regional state forestry associations met with their members of Congress in Washington, D.C., to discuss priority forestry issues. During more than 30 meetings, state foresters spoke with congressional leaders and their staff about priority programs that help conserve, protect, and enhance [read more]
Trees and forests built America and are essential for the nation’s growth and success. State forestry agencies are poised to support the new presidential administration. The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) is pleased to provide the Donald Trump Administration and Congress with recommendations for capitalizing on the benefits of trees and forests. Trees and [read more]
