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Policy Issues

  • Biomass Energy Advocacy Toolkit
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    NAFO’s Biomass Energy Advocacy Toolkit is the central location for our advocacy materials, including research, white papers, handouts, letters and more. More

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

  • Environment
    America’s private forests are vital to our water supply and the health of wildlife 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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  • Sustainability
    Sustainability: NAFO members commit to the sustainable management of private working forests as a condition of membership. More

  • Water Quality Advocacy Toolkit
    Water Quality: Working forests protect water quality through state-level best management practices. Learn more about their effectiveness at protecting water and the economy. More

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

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LEGISLATIVE ACTION CENTER

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FORESTRY JOURNAL

  • NAFO’s recommendations respond to the Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel’s draft recommendations on EPA’s accounting framework for carbon emissions. More

  • A new report provides a concise primer to policy makers on the forest carbon cycle, carbon accounting, biomass energy emissions and other critical topics. More

  • New federal legislation will help timberland owners avoid costly permit fees for logging roads, U.S. Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Kurt Schrader announced Monday. Under the new provision, a 35-year-old U.S. Environmental Protection Agency policy would be extended for another year. It would shield timber companies from the cost of designing stormwater control systems for logging roads under the federal Clean Water Act. Landowners will not be required to get federal permits to build logging roads. More

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