Press Releases

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released the report and recommendations resulting from the Canada/U.S. Forest Health Summit II.  The Summit, held March 26-27, 2013 in Ottawa, Canada, was attended by nearly 50 senior forestry officials from both the public and private sectors across Canada and the U.S.  The meeting was […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced that Michael Goergen, chief executive officer and executive vice-president of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) for the past 10 years, will be joining the Endowment effective September 15, 2013. Goergen announced his resignation July 15 to SAF membership where his tenure spans 17 […]

A milestone for private landowner contributions to natural resource conservation was reached this week with the addition of the 100,000th easement to the National Conservation Easement Database (Easement Database; www.conservationeasement.us). This unique collaboration is the only comprehensive system for managing and accessing information on publicly and privately held conservation easements.  Reliable data about what lands […]

U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Greenville, SC For IMMEDIATE RELEASE (July 15, 2013) America’s forest landowners and forest products industries rely heavily on a cadre of small businesses for the harvesting and transporting of trees. If those small businesses don’t thrive, forest landowners andconverting mills suffer. The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the […]

On April 27, 2013, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities hosted the Jefferson Opportunity Expo in Louisville, GA.  Presenters included several national and regional experts about programs that encourage saving toward home ownership, education, and entrepreneurship as a pathway out of poverty and three women who succeeded in those programs. Their presentations are informative, […]

More than 20,000 acres of longleaf pine and other forests near Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, will be permanently protected through one of two grants announced for the 2013 Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative Challenge (REPI) Challenge Program.  The Eglin easement is the largest land transaction in the REPI program’s history.  It adds to the […]

Nearly 100 years ago the leaders of a sleepy southern textile town took unprecedented steps to ensure that its citizens would have secure and readily available drinking water for decades to come.  There was only one problem – those decades did come and so did lots more people.  Today, Greenville, South Carolina, home to the […]

On Monday, June 17, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack participated in his very first Google+ Hangout to discuss opportunities available through USDA’s StrikeForce Initiative for Rural Growth and Opportunity. In the last five minutes of the Hangout, the Endowment-led Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program was cited as an exemplary partnership (see clip above). […]

Anne-Marie Melief and George Flowers, two recent graduates of Furman University, Greenville, SC, are the new interns at the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment).  Both will work with the Endowment for a year. Melief graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Earth and Environmental Sciences.  She also worked for three years at […]

The production of energy using a renewable material such as wood can have positive impacts on all three legs of the sustainability stool – society, the economy, and the environment.  So finds a report released today by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment).   The report, “Financing Woody Biomass Clusters:  Barriers, Opportunities, and Potential […]