Floodplain Forest’s Contribution to Gulf Water Quality to be Studied: New Research Seeks to Quantify Impacts in the Mississippi River Basin
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) has awarded a $42,000 grant to two USDA Forest Service scientists to synthesize existing research about the impacts of floodplain reforestation and forest management practices on water quality and flood attenuation. Dr. Ying Ouyang, a research hydrologist for the USDA Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research at […]
Endowment Partner Pursues Phone App to Track Forest Health Threats
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today made its first foray into engaging citizen scientists by putting its support behind a planned mobile phone application, developed by the Institute of Forest Biotechnology, designed to aid scientist in tracking forest disease and pest outbreaks around the globe. “For more than three years the […]
Endowment Releases 2012 Annual Report
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released its 2012 Annual Report. Creating financial linkages between urban water consumers and the rural forest landowners who produce their water, as well as featuring the key role that working forests play in helping buffer Department of Defense installations from incompatible development that affects military readiness, […]
Endowment Advances Water and Watershed Protection Program
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced that Tracy Mehan, a principal with The Cadmus Group, Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, has been retained to coordinate the Endowment’s source water protection efforts. “An estimated two out of three Americans receive their drinking water from a forested watershed,” noted Carlton Owen, the Endowment’s […]
New Reports and Understanding of Wood Energy Pellet Sector
Wood energy pellets: love them or hate them. It all depends upon your perspective and understanding. That’s why the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released two new reports on the rapidly-growing wood energy pellet industry: “The Wood Pellet Value Chain: An economic analysis of the wood pellet supply chain from the […]
Partners Expand Mississippi River Reforestation and Wetlands: Flood prone ‘batture lands’ eligible for conservation funding to improve water quality
Stoneville, MS – A public-private partnership between Mississippi River Trust, Walton Family Foundation, U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) offers conservation funding to owners of flood-prone farm land. The voluntary, four-year program seeks to convert 40,000 acres of frequently-flooded farm land into […]
Report Assesses State of Information on Nation’s Wood-to-Energy Sector
Even with sound information it is difficult to make good decisions; without it, bad outcomes are likely. That is why the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) convened a group of experts in Washington, DC, in October 2012, to assess information for the U.S. wood-to-energy sector. Wood-to-energy, the most ancient of fuels to […]
Voigtman Elected to Endowment’s Board of Directors
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) announced today that Jon Voigtman of Summit, New Jersey, and a Managing Director-RBC Capital Markets in New York, has been elected to its Board of Directors. “As we move to more active management of our portfolio of investments, it is vitally important that we have people […]
Payment for Watershed Services: A Watershed Protection Database
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) promotes the conservation and improved management of forested watersheds as a cost-effective strategy to safeguard public drinking water supplies. The USDA Forest Service estimates that 180 million Americans receive their drinking water from a forested watershed. Protecting these drinking water sources is essential for America’s continued […]
Endowment Releases 2011 Financial Results
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released results from independent audits of the organization’s 2011 financial records as well as copies of the 2011 IRS Form 990 (tax return). In reference to the findings, Peggy Clark, chair of the Endowment’s Audit Committee said, “I am especially pleased to report that not […]