Forestry Organizations Across the U.S.

American Farmland Trust - www.farmland.org

American Forest & Paper Association - www.afandpa.org

American Forest Foundation - www.affoundation.org

American Forest Resource Council - www.afrc.ws

American Forests - www.americanforests.org

American Society of Consulting Arborists - www.asca-consultants.org

Association of Consulting Foresters - www.acf-foresters.com - This organization was founded in 1948 to advance the professionalism, ethics, and interests of professional foresters whose primary work was consulting to the public. The ACF is the only national association for consulting foresters. Currently, there are more than 600 members in 37 states and 1 Canadian province

Community Forestry Resource Center - www.forestrycenter.org

The Forest Guild - www.forestguild.org - This organization promotes responsible forestry to sustain the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent on them.  It provides training, policy analysis and research to support practicing foresters and allied professionals and to engage the broader community in forest conservation and management. 

Forest Land - www.forestland.org/flash.html - This website is dedicated to America's most treasured natural resource, its forests, and provides insight into the role that America's forests play in our daily lives.  This site is sponsored by Forest Landowners Association Inc.

Forest Landowners Association - www.forestlandowners.com - This organization's mission is to support forest landowners' responsible management of their private property, through advocacy, education, and information.

The Forest Management Trust - www.foresttrust.org/AboutUs.htm

Forest Resources Association - www.apulpa.org - This organization represents diverse segments of the wood fiber supply chain, promoting forest products industry members' ability to compete successfully in the global marketplace.

Forest Stewards Guild - www.foreststewardsguild.org

Forest Stewardship Council - www.fscus.org

Great Lakes Forest Alliance (MI, MN, and WI) - www.lsfa.org

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - www.iatp.org

National Association of Conservation Districts - www.forestry/nacdnetorg

National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry - www.ncseonline.org/NCSSF/

National Woodland Owners Association - www.woodlandowners.org - This organization is is made up of non-industrial private woodland owners with offices in the Washington DC area.  Membership includes landowners in all 50 states and Canada.  NWOA is independent of the forest products industry and government forestry agencies.  It works with other organizations to promote non-industrial forestry and the best interests of woodland owners.

Report on a curriculum for teaching about forestry; Appendix 2 has the curriculum - www.ncseonline.org/ewebeditpro/items/O62F6598.pdf

Pinchot Institute for Conservation - www.pinchot.org

Snowy Pines Reforestation - www.rea-alp.com/~snowpine/ - Has sections on tree planting, lumber including salvage lumber, and wood flooring

Society of American Foresters - www.safnet.org

Southern Forest Products Association - www.sfpa.org - This organization is recognized as one of the foremost trade organizations in the forest products industry.  SFPA represents Southern Pine lumber manufacturers from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.  Its mission is to maintain current markets, develop and expand new market opportunities for Southern Pine forest products, and to engage in such activities and programs that the members deem useful to advance and protect their interests.

Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - www.msawg.org

Sustainable Forests Partnership - sfp.cas.psu.edu

Sustainable Woods Network - www.sustainablewoods.net
- www.sustainablewoods.net/ForestMilledLumber.aspx

US Forest Service - www.fs.fed.us
- www.fs.fed.us/spf/coop is USFS's site on cooperative forestry

Upper Peninsula Resource Conservation and Development Council's web page on their forest products marketing cooperative - www.uprcd.org/coop.asp

University of Washington - www.ruraltech.org/links/
This website has a list of forestry community links divided into academic institutions, government, professional organizations, NGOs, forest certification, computer programs (including for "land management system"), and other.

Walnut Council - www.walnutcouncil.org - This organization, founded in 1970, is an international association representing nearly 1000 woodland owners, foresters, forest scientists, and wood-producing industry representatives in 45 states and seven foreign countries.   The purpose is to assist in the technical transfer of forest research to field applications, help build and maintain better markets for wood products and nut crops, and to promote sustainable forest management, conservation, reforestation, and utilization of American black walnut and other high quality fine hardwoods.  Walnut Council has 12 state chapters and publishes quarterly bulletins.

Washington State Department of Natural Resources - www.dnr.wa.gov/sflo/links/
This huge website links section has links to local, regional, and national organizations all over the country in areas including agroforestry, carbon sequestration, cooperatives, fire, forest management, funding/grants, non-timber forest products, rural development, sustainable forestry, and technical/information resources.