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Policy Issues

  • Climate Change
    Climate change: America's well-managed private forests are vital to any climate change solution. More

  • Environment
    Environment: America’s private forests are vital to our water supply and the health of wildlife water habitat, but potential over-regulation could have the unintended consequence of driving good forest landowners out of the business of growing and maintaining forests. More

  • Long Term Investment and Tax Policy
    Tax: The face of forest ownership in America is constantly changing. Tax policy needs to keep up with these changes to encourage and enable forest landowners to sustainably manage America’s forests for the long-term. More

  • Renewable Energy
    Renewable energy: America's private forests are vital to the nation's renewable energy efforts. More

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  • Working Forests
    Facts and figures on the benefits of private, working forests. More

LATEST NEWS

  • Dave Tenny urges the Senate Agriculture Committee to support a broad definition for renewable forest biomass and urge EPA to change More

  • NAFO reiterates prevailing science that GHG emissions from renewable biomass energy do not increase the carbon in the atmosphere. More

  • NAFO provides answers to Pinchot's questions and notes that markets for forest biomass help conserve working forests. More

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FORESTRY JOURNAL

  • A guest op-ed in The Hill makes the case that forest products, and the associated jobs, are "green jobs." More

  • Over 100 scientists wrote the U.S. Senate and House to reiterate that biomass energy is renewable and carbon beneficial and to express their concern over the EPA's GHG Tailoring Rule. More

  • NAFO comments on the EPA's NPDES general permit for pesticide application. More

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