It may be counterintuitive, but forestry and logging can be beneficial to many types of wildlife under sustainable forest management (SFM). Sustainable forest management creates a mosaic of interconnected 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 [...]

Sustainable forest management (SFM) creates and maintains corridors of forests for animals to naturally move through their entire range during each stage of their lifecycle. This helps prevent forest fragmentation, where loss of forest and small-block forests can negatively impact critical biodiversity enablers like temperature, wind speed, light and humidity. By keeping forests as forests, [...]

Forestry is a critical part of the U.S. economy and American-grown forest products support rural prosperity. Private working forests alone support nearly 2.5 million jobs, $108 billion in payroll and $288 billion in sales and manufacturing. Private working forests are especially vital to rural prosperity through job creation and economic opportunities for local communities. Through [...]

People invest in what they value. When demand for forest products is strong, this increases the value of private working forests. People are then incentivized to invest in those forests and not convert them into high-value land uses like real estate development or agriculture. This is especially important for small forest landowners deciding how to [...]

Traditional products include wood, paper and packaging, post poles, and pilings. They are green, sustainable, renewable, biodegradable, recyclable, and essential for everyday life. In the U.S., about 90% of these products come from private working forests, with the remaining from publicly owned working forests. In addition to these traditional forest products, new innovative products with [...]