Press Releases

A new book produced by the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory — Sustainable Development in the Forest Products Industry — provides strong evidence of the link between a vibrant forest products industry and healthy working forests.  “The Endowment’s entire theory of work is based upon the concepts contained in this work,” says U.S. Endowment for […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released a request for proposals (RFP) seeking a qualified vendor to conduct an independent review of the organization’s investment strategy and its fund manager.  “As part of our on-going plans and normal due diligence, we believe that the Endowment has sufficient history appropriate for a review,” […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) has moved to permanent offices in Greenville, South Carolina.  The facility, which the Endowment owns, provides double the space of its former offices.  “We couldn’t be more pleased with how this decision is turning out,” says Endowment President Carlton Owen.  “In addition to gaining needed and […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced the release of a report entitled, “Innovations in Watershed-based Conservation in the United States:  Payments for Watershed Services for Agricultural and Forest Landowners.” Carlton Owen, President of the Endowment, noted that the work is the result of the first collaboration with the USDA Office of Environmental […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced that domestic manufacturers and importers of softwood lumber have voted to approve the formation of a softwood lumber research and promotion program.  AMS held a referendum from May 23 to June 10, 2011, to determine whether to implement the Softwood Lumber Research, Promotion, Consumer Education […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced that it has engaged former U.S. Ambassador, David H. Wilkins, as outside general counsel. “When our current counsel opted to step aside for personal health reasons, we immediately spoke to David Wilkins about his interest in working with the Endowment,” said Endowment President Carlton […]

Torrefied wood may be an excellent companion to coal as utilities across the nation seek ways to increase the use of renewable energy sources and reduce their carbon footprint.  The first in a series of co-branded briefs, Issues in the Forest, produced jointly by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) and National […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released a series of “Endowment Initiative Overviews.”   “As part of our commitment to transparency and in an effort to share learnings from our work with others who are interested, we developed these documents to put our programmatic work in context of our ‘Theory of Change’,” said Endowment President Carlton […]

Last evening before a star-studded crowd representing the who’s who of forests in the U.S., Secretary of Agriculture  Tom Vilsack went where none of his predecessors had ever gone.  Using the launch of the United Nation’s  International Year of Forests 2011 as backdrop, Vilsack committed the USDA Forest Service and the entire USDA to “preferentially […]

What do Amazon rainforests and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) have in common?  Tamar Datan. Datan, Executive Vice President of the Virginia-based Amazon Conservation Team, has been unanimously elected to a position on the Endowment’s Board of Directors effective April 1, 2011. “We couldn’t be more pleased that someone with Tamar’s diverse […]