Endowment Moves to New Home
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 [...]
Endowment Releases Report on State of Watershed Payment Programs
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: [...]
Softwood Lumber Producers Approve First-Ever National Check-off
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 [...]
Endowment Names former Ambassador as Outside Counsel
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 [...]
Endowment and State Foresters Launch “Issues in the Forest” Series
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 [...]
Initiative Overviews Put Programmatic Work in Context
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 [...]
USDA Plan to Promote use of Green Building and Wood to Keep Forests as Forests
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 [...]
Endowment Elects Datan to Board of Directors
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 [...]
Annual Report for Calendar Year 2010 Released
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released copies of its Annual Report 2010. “Given that the United Nations declared 2011 as the International Year of [...]
Endowment Seeks to Aid Hardwood Industry in Plan for Growth
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) today announced that it is partnering with an ad-hoc group of U.S. hardwood industry leaders operating as the “Blue Ribbon [...]