Publications

This report is intended as a resource for landowners, non-profits, and government agencies seeking to understand opportunities and challenges presented by forest carbon sequestration projects. [...]

This report is an overview of the status of and opportunities for business clustering within U.S. forest products and closely related natural resource-based sectors.   It reviews business cluster [...]

The Endowment convened a number of public and private conservation players as a follow-up to “Forest Conservation Easements:  Who’s Keeping Track?” (February 2008) in order to move forward with [...]

Forests owned by municipalities, counties, or community-based nonprofit organizations are being used to drive economic development and forest conservation.  This report offers an assessment of [...]

A summary version of the previous document regarding the potential of commodity check-offs to be used for North American softwood lumber. View PDF

A comprehensive feasibility study and implementation options that examine the potential for unified or coordinated “check-off” programs for softwood lumber in the U.S. and Canada.   Check-offs – [...]

This report explores the “state-of-the-issue” of community resilience of rural, often forest-based communities in the U.S. and offers a framework for which those interested in collaboration can [...]

This document provides the results of an Endowment convening co-sponsored with the Forest Resources Association to identify opportunities to strengthen the timber harvesting and transportation [...]

This is a statement of the Endowment’s views on Forest Certification. View PDF

This publication is the result of a national workshop designed to gather views from a broad range of individuals on where they believed the Endowment should be targeting its efforts. View PDF