2013 Interns Join Endowment Team
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 […]
New Report Assesses Appoaches to Expand Community-Scale Clusters of Wood-to-Energy Facilities to Enhance Renewable energy and Forest Health
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 […]
Wood For Energy Use in Schools, Hospitals and Other Facilities Growing
The State of Institutional Woody Biomass Facilities in the United States, a report just released by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment), is available at www.usendowment.org. This report, based on research by Katie Premo, Endowment intern, and Kate MacFarland, USDA Forest Service (USFS) staff, fills the gap and points to the growth […]
New Chief Financial Officer Joins Endowment
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced the addition of Signe Cann as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). “We are indeed fortunate to find someone with such rich experience, but perhaps more importantly, one who shares the passion for our mission as well,” said Endowment President Carlton Owen. In her role with […]
Woody Biomass Energy Database Upgraded and Expanded
In 2010, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) announced creation of a one-of-a-kind database of industrial and selected community-scale users of wood-to-energy facilities across North America. Today the Endowment is unveiling major improvements in the database. The site — www.wood2energy.org — is a searchable database open to anyone with interest in the state of […]
Partners Launch the Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program
Two sites in the Carolinas have been selected as pilots for the launch of a collaborative $1.2 million grant program to help stem the loss of African American owned forests. The program is a joint venture of the U. S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment), the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and the USDA […]
Floodplain Forest’s Contribution to Gulf Water Quality to be Studied: New Research Seeks to Quantify Impacts in the Mississippi River Basin
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) has awarded a $42,000 grant to two USDA Forest Service scientists to synthesize existing research about the impacts of floodplain reforestation and forest management practices on water quality and flood attenuation. Dr. Ying Ouyang, a research hydrologist for the USDA Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research at […]
Endowment Partner Pursues Phone App to Track Forest Health Threats
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today made its first foray into engaging citizen scientists by putting its support behind a planned mobile phone application, developed by the Institute of Forest Biotechnology, designed to aid scientist in tracking forest disease and pest outbreaks around the globe. “For more than three years the […]
Endowment Releases 2012 Annual Report
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today released its 2012 Annual Report. Creating financial linkages between urban water consumers and the rural forest landowners who produce their water, as well as featuring the key role that working forests play in helping buffer Department of Defense installations from incompatible development that affects military readiness, […]
Endowment Advances Water and Watershed Protection Program
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today announced that Tracy Mehan, a principal with The Cadmus Group, Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, has been retained to coordinate the Endowment’s source water protection efforts. “An estimated two out of three Americans receive their drinking water from a forested watershed,” noted Carlton Owen, the Endowment’s […]