In a letter to congressional leadership today, a coalition of seven urged greater support for the State Fire Capacity Program (SFC, formerly State Fire Assistance) and the Volunteer Fire Capacity Program (VFC, formerly Volunteer Fire Assistance). While we appreciate the support shown for both of the programs in the House and Senate Interior Appropriations bills, [read more]
In a letter sent to USDA Forest Service Chief Randy Moore today, four organizations asked that the $160 million included in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) for Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) restoration projects be implemented with input from the agency's partners in each of its regions. Our organizations represent essential partnerships in realizing GNA accomplishments [read more]
The Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition, of which NASF is a member, wrote to the USDA Forest Service today regarding funding for the national Urban and Community Forestry (U&CF) program. The coalition provided recommendations to the agency for implementing the $1.5 billion allocated to the program through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Read the letter in [read more]
The National Association of State Foresters is pleased to announce the 2022 NASF current and lifetime achievement award honorees. They are: Laura Buntrock and Olivia Witthun of Wisconsin, Puni Jackson of Hawai'i, and Mark Bays of Oklahoma. WASHINGTON—The National Association of State Foresters honored several individuals at its 2022 annual meeting for their extraordinary contributions [read more]
State foresters elect their fiscal year 2023 leadership during NASF's 102nd annual conference in Stevenson, Washington. STEVENSON, Wash.—At this year's annual meeting, the nation’s state foresters elected a new slate of officers to serve on the National Association of State Foresters’ governing executive committee. In doing so, the association made history: two of the four [read more]
The 2021-2022 NASF Annual Report highlights the association’s many efforts to advance the policy and communications priorities of its membership. In the last 12 months, NASF has had a number of notable successes: Boosted the relevance of NASF’s policy positions in Washington, D.C., and the reputation of state foresters nationwide with strategic communications. NASF advanced the [read more]
NASF celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020 and 2021 with a Centennial Challenge campaign, honoring both the work of the association in providing a unified voice for state and private forestry, as well as the tremendous social, environmental, and economic contributions of state forestry agencies nationwide. As part of the celebration, NASF’s 59 forestry agency [read more]
Now en route: the nation's state foresters, along with their closest partners, will be traveling to the Columbia River Gorge to attend next week’s NASF annual meeting, hosted by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. WASHINGTON—For more than a century, state foresters have worked to ensure the sustainable management of America’s forests. And while trees [read more]
Today, the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) submitted comments on the joint USDA Forest Service-DOI Bureau of Land Management request for information on federal old-growth and mature forests. The management of federal forest lands greatly influences the resilience and health of all America’s forests and the full range of social, economic, and environmental benefits [read more]
“Tree Hunter” shows just a few examples of how human stories become intertwined with those of trees in community and urban settings. WASHINGTON—The National Association of State Foresters is pleased to present the third installment in its “Tree Stories” series, a collection of short films that illustrates the importance of the different—but equally valuable—bonds that [read more]
