Regrowing forests after harvest – whether by planting or natural regeneration – is a core tenet of sustainable forest management (SFM). National planting estimates on all U.S. forestlands range between 1 billion and 1.7 billion seedlings each year. Many tree seedlings are sourced through cooperatives that bring together universities, forest sector companies, and government agencies [...]

In the U.S., assurances are in place to ensure our forests are sustainably managed and climate smart through a mosaic of overlapping and mutually reinforcing local, state, and federal environmental laws and regulations, state-approved forestry best management practices (BMPs), and third-party forest management and wood fiber sourcing certification programs. All are built on a foundation [...]

Increased stressors, like a lack of active management (e.g., thinning), have left many forests – especially in the U.S. West – at risk of experiencing severe wildfire. Unnaturally high tree densities as well as tree mortality from these increased threats has resulted in many forests having too much flammable biomass on each acre. Sustainable forest [...]