Press Releases

At military bases across the country, encroachment by non-compatible development (housing, for instance) threatens the military mission as it limits full use and capability of core lands for training purposes.  The Department of Defense (DoD) today announced the availability of a special $5 million fund for land conservation to benefit select military bases in Georgia […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) and our partners such as The Conservation Fund believe that forestland conservation can have positive economic impact for low-wealth rural people. Indeed, there is already exciting impact in our programs to use forests for the economic and cultural benefit of low-wealth and minority communities. For example, […]

Water.  It’s everywhere, or almost so.  Yet, in a nation with more than 308 million inhabitants, water — especially safe drinking water — could well become the defining natural resource issue of the 21st Century.  Strengthening the link between clean water and healthy forests is vital to ensure that future generations will have the water they need. […]

It has been used to send disaster aid across the globe with a simple text. It has been used to help farmers in Latin America expand their crop production. Artists around the world have used it to craft innovative projects in music, writing, and filmmaking. Now, donors can use it to help green entrepreneurs grow […]

As vitally important as family-supporting jobs are — especially in this economy — can a private business be “designed” to do more than provide jobs and generate profits for its owners?  That’s the question that the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) hopes to answer with its investment in a wood-to-energy facility slated for […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released the results of an external review commissioned to provide an assessment of its programmatic investments in the rapidly-changing woody biomass/wood-to-energy sector.  ” Among the greatest challenges facing healthy working forests is the lack of markets for small-diameter, dead, or dying wood,” says Endowment President […]

The Honorable Ed Fast, Minster of International Trade for the Government of Canada, has named James Farrell as “Canadian liaison” to the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment).  Farrell, most recently served as Assistant Deputy Minister of the Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, a position he held from 2006 to December 2010.  “We’re […]

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) has a dual mission often simply stated as “advancing healthy working forests and family-supporting jobs in rural forest-reliant communities.”   “We know that each community has many needs and challenges that are well beyond our expertise and limited resources,” says Endowment President Carlton Owen.  “So to improve […]

Effective at the conclusion of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities’ (the Endowment) November 2010 meeting of the Board of Directors, Dick Molpus, completed his term of Board service.  “Dick was the Endowment’s inaugural Chairman, a capacity he held for three years,” said Endowment President Carlton Owen.  “Dick’s service was invaluable in getting our organization established and […]

EcoAgriculture Partners, a DC-based group working to help agricultural communities manage their landscapes, has released two versions of the report, Payment for watershed services in the United States: Cost-effective strategies to align landowner incentives for abundant clean water.  Endowment Vice President Peter Stangel explains the report, “was commissioned by the Endowment to provide background on ‘who is doing […]