Press Releases

We at the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) hope you will join us as we celebrate World Wetlands Day 2018!  This day is set aside as an annual celebration marking the [...]

Leveraging lessons from the natural world can lead to more efficient and impactful work for a non-profit tasked with advancing stewardship of North America’s working forests. That’s the thesis [...]

Greenville, S.C. and Durham, N.C. – An additional 133 acres of land, including critical hardwood bottomland forest, will be protected in perpetuity thanks to a conservation easement on the [...]

“If we are going to keep forests as forests, we must respect and value them. We must ensure markets for wood and wood products. And invest in and support vital research and conservation.” This [...]

Greenville, S.C. – The headwaters of Otterdam Swamp and Three Creek are closer to long-term protection via a working forest conservation easement on forest lands in the region. The easement is [...]

Endowment Launches Website Detailing the State of America’s Forests –USAForests.org goes live- Greenville, S.C. – The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) today announced [...]

New members added to board of directors; officers elected – Kevin Schuyler and Rachel Jacobson Join Endowment – The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) [...]

Virginia Outdoors Foundation Protects 408-acre Floodplain Forest -Enviva Forest Conservation Fund Helps with Donated Conservation Easement- Greenville, S.C. – A donated conservation easement will [...]

2018 Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program ChallengeRequest for Pre-Proposals  The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) today announced that it is accepting pre-proposals [...]

2018 Enviva Forest Conservation Fund Request for Proposals and Expanded North Carolina Eligibility Greenville, SC and Bethesda, MD, October 9 – The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities [...]