Everyone benefits when family forest owners practice conservation forestry. AFF's Center for Conservation Solutions shows landowners how and why.

The success of the Center hinges on three key strategies: engaging forest owners--often for the first time--in innovative conservation strategies, leveraging partners who can extend our impact to a broader target audience, and creating synergies between on-the-ground conservation and policy efforts.

Do You Know an Outstanding Family Forest Owner?
The Center for Conservation Solutions seeks nominations for its Conservation Forestry Award, which will recognize a family forest owner whose early adoption of innovative conservation forestry practices has proven both ecologically and socially beneficial. The family forest owner should demonstrate deliberate and on going efforts to conserve their forestland in alignment with a written management plan, and also perform landowner and community outreach. The family forest owner should possess a holistic view of the forest ecosystem that guides progress toward healthy forest conditions. Read More.
Private Forests Play Critical Role in Climate Change
Forests in the US sequester 10% of America's greenhouse gas emissions. As an important factor in mitigating the effects of climate change, private working forests deserve to play a central role in federal climate change policy. The American Forest Foundation is co-leading a new coalition representing virtually all sectors of the forest community--the forest products industry, conservation and wildlife groups, foresters, private forest owners, academics, and carbon finance groups--calling upon Congress to include private working forests as a central part of federal climate change policy. Read more.
Latest Conservation Forestry News Available
Read the latest Conservation Forestry Update to learn thelatest developments in our work to help family forest owners practice conservation forestry. Stories include: welcoming of the American Forest Foundation's new President & CEO, Tom Martin, the development of Prescribed Fire cooperatives, upcoming workshops and field days, Oak savannah restoration in Oregon, and more! To subscribe to the quarterly update, send an email to mmunford@forestfoundation.org

Center for Conservation Solutions 2008 Annual Report