Sustainably managed forests and the wood products they provide are powerful tools for mitigating climate change. Many consider forests and forest products the most powerful natural climate solution available. As trees grow, they pull carbon from the atmosphere through the natural process of photosynthesis. This carbon is stored in their leaves, branches, and wood, as [...]

Sustainable forest management (SFM) can improve a forest’s natural ability to sequester (carbon capture) and store carbon. When you include carbon-storing wood products, the story gets even better. Growing trees convert carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon and store it in their trunks, roots, branches, and leaves – much of it as wood and fiber that [...]

Forests are essential to maintaining water quality and supply. Through their natural structures and lifecycles, forests influence how precipitation flows into watersheds. Their trees function as filters by removing sediment, bacteria, pollution, and other contaminants as the water passes. Root systems anchor soil and other material to the forest floor, preventing erosion. These natural filtering [...]

Sustainable forest management (SFM) includes a focus on maintaining and enhancing water quality and quantity, especially since forests shelter important river headwaters and groundwater recharge areas. Sustainable forest management practices followed by TIR and other forest owners include a comprehensive program of state-approved water quality best management practices (BMPs) for forestry that are designed to [...]

Forestry and logging can be beneficial to many types of wildlife. Sustainable forest management creates a mosaic of interconnected, high-quality forest conditions for native plant and animal species, including those that are common, at-risk, threatened, and endangered. Thousands of species rely on working forests for a wide variety of forest conditions, from young stands and [...]