Endowment “Webinar” Serves Foundation Peer
At the request of the Blandin Foundation and its “Vital Forests/Vital Communities” initiative, U.S. Endowment President Carlton Owen today conducted an hour-long “webinar.” The webinar was entitled, “The Softwood Lumber Dispute: What It’s About, Why and What It’s Got to do with The U.S. Endowment.” The overall purpose of the educational seminar was to better […]
Endowment Releases First-Ever Annual Report
“One of our core values is openness and transparency in all that we do,” says Endowment President Carlton Owen. “That’s why we work hard to update our website, share our thinking and progress and provide fairly explicit plain language quarterly stewardship reports.” The Endowment’s 2007 Annual Report – its first such report – showcases the […]
Request for Participation in Community-based Forestry Survey
The Consortium for Community Forestry is researching community-based forestry (CBF) in the U.S. as part of a project for the Endowment. This research aims to identify and understand the rich variety of CBF initiatives, including community-owned forests. To this end, the Consortium is requesting that a lead organization with every CBF initiative complete the survey, […]
Senior Advisors Gathered to Discuss Endowment Work
The Endowment was honored to have four former federal service Chiefs join an experienced group of forestry and community issues leaders in Washington, DC on April 10th to review the organization’s current actions and plans. The all-star band included three former Forest Service Chiefs — Max Peterson, Dale Robertson and Jack Ward Thomas — along […]
Timber Harvesting/Transportation Report Available
The Endowment today released a report — Timber Harvesting and Transportation: The State of the Industry — that resulted from a January 30-31, 2008 workshop convened to explore the state of timber harvesting in the U.S. “We appreciate the great input, insights and candor that participants shared in helping us scope the state of this […]
Endowment to Gain Help from Retired Forest Service Professionals
The National Association of Forest Service Retirees (NAFSR) and the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced an informal partnership whereby NAFSR members will assist the Endowment with certain research, planning or programmatic initiatives on a project basis as either advisors or short-term unpaid staff. Carlton Owen, Endowment President said of the […]
Spring ’08 Intern a Familiar Face
Cameron Tommey a Furman University double-major in Earth & Environmental Sciences and Political Science becomes the fifth person to join the Endowment’s staff through our Internship Program. Tommey assisted the Endowment in a short-term assignment as a recorder in the Focal Initiatives Workshop in November 2007. He hails from Columbus, Georgia.
Consortium to Study Community-based Forestry/Community-owned Forests
An incredible array of groups and individuals has come together under the leadership of Dynamic Coaching and Capacity Building (Silver Spring, Maryland) along with the Watershed Research and Training Center (Hayfork, California) to implement work outlined in Endowment RFP 2008-001. The work will highlight a broad spectrum of community-based forestry and community-owned forest models and […]
Team Selected to Study Commodity “Check-offs”
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has selected Phoenix Strategic Solutions, Inc. to lead a team which includes Kelly McCloskey & Associates, Ltd. and the Artemis Strategy Group to deliver services in response to Endowment RFP 2008-002. Expected outputs will yield a comprehensive feasibility report with implementation options examining the potential for coordinated “check-off” […]
Owen to Co-Chair 4th Small Log Conference
Carlton Owen, President of the U.S. Endowment has been named Co-Chair of the 4th National Small Log Conference to be held March 2009 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. This will be the fourth biennial conference held to look at the potential to develop local and global markets for small wood from both public and private lands […]