Letters

In a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership, NASF and two dozen other signatories requested hurricane recovery support for southern forests. We respectfully ask that you: Extend or renew the USDA’s 2017 Wildfires and Hurricanes Indemnity Program (WHIP) to provide landowners, especially where insurance is cost-prohibitive, with some recovery of lost value, and [read more]

In a letter to the leaders of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, a long list of organizations pledged their support for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (S.3223), introduced in July by Sens. Risch, Manchin, Alexander, and Heitkamp: We believe this legislation is a key part of a critical solution towards addressing the [read more]

In letters to the leadership of the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies this week, the nation's 59 state and territorial foresters underscored the value of the Joint Fire Science program: The Joint Fire Science (JFS) program... provides the data we need to rate fire danger, make seasonal wildfire forecasts, and cost [read more]

In a letter sent earlier this week, the Society of American Foresters and the National Association of State Foresters urged the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee to confirm the nomination of Jim Hubbard as undersecretary of the Natural Resources and Environment mission area within the United States Department of Agriculture as swiftly as [read more]

The National Association of State Foresters has sent letters to House and Senate leadership in support of robust Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 funding for USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry programs. "We believe that investments in key federal programs to conserve and improve America’s forests—rural and urban, private and public—are critically important. These investments [read more]

NASF, the National Volunteer Fire Council, the International Association of Fire Chiefs, the Congressional Fire Services Institute, and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture have sent a letter to U.S. House of Representatives leadership in support of two critically important wildfire protection programs: State Fire Assistance (SFA) and Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA). SFA and VFA, programs [read more]

In a letter to Senators Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow—chairman and ranking member respectively of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry charged with confirming Agriculture Department appointments—NASF expressed its full support for President Donald Trump’s nomination of James Hubbard as undersecretary of the Agriculture Department’s Natural Resources and Environment mission area. "Throughout his long and distinguished career [read more]

This week, the National Association of State Foresters and more than 125 diverse organizations submitted a letter to congressional leadership in support of a comprehensive wildfire funding solution. Today's fire seasons are on average 78 days longer than in the 1970s and are projected to grow hotter, more unpredictable, and more expensive in the coming [read more]

On Monday, October 4th, U.S. Senators Steve Daines (R-MT) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sent a letter to the Senate and House Leadership of the Energy Bill Conference (Committee Chairmen and Ranking Members) urging them to address wildfire funding and federal forest management reforms.  The letter also supported codifying of the Landscape Scale Restoration program and [read more]

The National Association of State Foresters provided coalition letters in support of fiscal year 2017 appropriations levels for priority USDA Forest Service State and Private Forestry (S&PF) programs.  State and private forests make up more than two thirds of our nation’s forests and provide a host of public benefits including jobs, clean air and water, wildlife habitat, recreational opportunities [read more]