Press Releases

U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) Chairman Dick Molpus today named a three-person Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board.  The Committee will be chaired by David Thorud with David Dodson and Jim Rinehart serving as members.  The Endowment Board of Directors authorized creation of the committee during a regularly scheduled call in […]

More people and changing land uses are threatening the future of the South’s forests, and a group of conservation partners have united to “Keep Forests as Forests.” The Partnership for Southern Forestland Conservation was created last year after several forest conservation and management organization met to discuss this growing concern about the future sustainability of […]

U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) Board Member, Bruce Miles, has been inducted into the Texas Forestry Museum’s Hall of Fame 2008.  Mr. Miles holds a Bachelor of Forestry Degree from Louisiana State University (LSU) via a cooperative scholarship program between LSU and Texas A&M University.  After a short stint in the Pacific […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced its participation in a bold new initiative, “Advancing Forest Health through Biotechnology.”  Designed to seek new tools to deal with rapidly increasing impacts to forests from exotic pests and diseases as well as native pests that are exploding in the face of changing climactic […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced it has garnered external funding to support the third and final phase of work leading to the development of a softwood lumber products check-off.   Check-off programs have been used for more than fifty years by U.S. agricultural commodity producers to generate funds to educate […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announced that it has partnered with  The Conservation Fund to launch an online marketplace to benefit working forests and rural communities.  The marketplace will link individual donors and groups of donors with small-scale entrepreneurs whose enterprises help retain working forests across the country.  The project will launch in […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced its latest “Request for Pre-Proposals (RFP).”  “For almost a year we’ve been working with land conservation interests in government and not-for-profit sectors to define the possibilities and potential of a single national database to view lands covered by conservation easements,” said Endowment President Carlton […]

On October 21st, 2008, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) hosted a workshop in Seattle, Washington, to formally roll-out its work and recommendations on commodity check-offs and their potential to benefit forests, forest-reliant communities and the greater forest industry across North America.  The session was attended by more than 30 CEOs and […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities’ Board of Directors completed its review of current and expected economic conditions and budgets for 2009.  At its fall meeting, held November 3-4 in Minneapolis, the Board charted a new course for programmatic funding for the next three years.  “Just as we were implementing our course for programmatic […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) and the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) co-hosted a workshop in Chicago, December 10-11, 2008, “Keeping Working Forests in Forests:  Looking for Common Ground to Achieve Common Objectives.”  The primary purpose of the session was to consider needs and means to keep landscape-scale working forests […]