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Posts Tagged ‘Working Forests’

Strong and Diverse Markets Help Conserve Private Forests

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Comments on an USDA Forest Service report: Private Forests, Public Benefits.

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Forest Products are Green

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

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

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Sustainability

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

NAFO’s commitment to sustainable forest management.

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LTE: Markets conserve forests

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Tenny and Selzer explain how markets for forest products conserve forests as forests.

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Wood: The Most Natural Resource

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Private forestry is the original “green” industry. Find out why.

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Forest Capital Partners testifies before the House Ag Committee

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Forest Capital Partners tells the House Agriculture Committee that Congress must support private, working forests, recognize the conservation value of markets, and trust the existing framework of laws, regulations, and agreements to sustain forestry operations.

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NAFO tells BLS that forestry is one of the original green industries

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

NAFO comments to the BLS that forestry and forest product manufacturing should be counted as “green jobs.”

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Letter: To save our private forests, we must keep them working

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

NAFO and The Conservation Fund wrote a letter to the editor of the Washington Post outlining how to save U.S. forests.

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White House Conference on America’s Great Outdoors

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

As the Obama Administration addresses “modern-day land conservation,” they must include the role of private, working forests.

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Conserving Forests Through Viable Markets

Friday, March 12th, 2010

NAFO joined forces with conservationists and landowners to promote federal public policy that recognizes the benefits of private, working forests and works to conserve them.

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LATEST NEWS

  • Comments on an USDA Forest Service report: Private Forests, Public Benefits. More

  • Senators Lincoln and Chambliss introduced legislation to affirm that if pesticides are applied according to EPA guidelines no additional permit is needed. More

  • NAFO submits comments to EPA underscoring the traditional use of biomass for energy. More

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LEGISLATIVE ACTION CENTER

Take action to conserve private forests.

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FORESTRY JOURNAL

  • A video presentation exploring how using North American wood products helps mitigate climate change. More

  • Rep. Emerson makes the case that the EPA's action to over-regulate biomass energy will cost jobs and stifle a domestic, renewable, and sustainable energy supply. More

  • Over 100 members of Congress tell EPA Administrator Jackson that the proposed Boiler MACT rule will cost thousands of jobs and not impact human health or the environment. More

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