Letters

Along with the many members of the Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition (SUFC), NASF signed a letter thanking Congresswoman Matsui for her introduction of HR 1807 “The Residential Energy and Economic Savings Act” or "TREES Act" this week. The "TREES Act" would assist retail power providers with the establishment and operation of targeted residential tree planting [read more]

Last week NASF signed on to a coalition letter encouraging the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies to include an extension of the Stewardship Contracting authority in the FY 2014 budget. The letter highlighted the history and importance of Stewardship Contracting to the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Stewardship [read more]

This week NASF joined numerous organizations in the forestry community in letters to the Senate. The letters mirrored those sent to the House last week in support of FY2014 appropriations for priority programs at the USDA Forest Service including: Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, Forest Health Program, Urban and Community Forestry Program, Forest Stewardship Program, [read more]

This week NASF joined a coalition of forestry organizations to present comments to the Committee on Ways and Means regarding the Tax Working Group process. The letter expressed coalition views on the existing tax treatment of working forests across America. The comments highlighted three provisions in the tax code that Congress has adopted to reflect [read more]

NASF joined numerous other organizations in the forestry community in support of FY2014 appropriations for priority programs at the USDA Forest Service including: Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, Forest Health Program, Urban and Community Forestry Program, Forest Stewardship Program, and the State Fire Assistance Program. The letters were submitted to members of the House Interior [read more]

Last week NASF joined other forestry organizations in a letter to Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell to emphasize the importance of wood being classified as green product. The current LEED standards discourages the use of wood relative to other building materials and discriminates against two widely used forest certification standards. The letter also gave suggestions [read more]

This week NASF joined others in the forestry community in support of funding for wildland fire management activities as the Senate considered a continuing resolution to fund the Federal government for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2013. After experiencing a brutal fire season in 2012 and continuing drought conditions contributing to predictions of a comparable [read more]

Today, NASF joined a coalition letter in support of the addition of Amendment #3350 to the disaster relief package being considered by Congress. The amendment provides supplemental funds to the Wildland Fire Management appropriation by restoring $653 million to the USFS Wildland Fire Management Account. The Coalition shares the interests of Senator Tester and Udall [read more]

NASF joined with other members of the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus to send a letter  to appropriators as they complete work on FY13 appropriations for Interior, Environment and Related Agencies. The letter thanked appropriators for repaying transferred funds from non-fire accounts used for suppression efforts in FY12 and for making important adjustments to [read more]

NASF, working with an exceptionally broad representation of conservation, recreation, retired agency personnel, sportsmen, timber, and wildlife groups (97 in total) - calling themselves the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus- submitted a coalition letter requesting $400 million in emergency supplemental funding be directed to the US Forest Service FLAME account for 2012, or provide [read more]