March 2013 – U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc.

Partners Launch the Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program

Two sites in the Carolinas have been selected as pilots for the launch of a collaborative $1.2 million grant program to help stem the loss of African American owned forests. The program is a [...]

Floodplain Forest’s Contribution to Gulf Water Quality to be Studied: New Research Seeks to Quantify Impacts in the Mississippi River Basin

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) has awarded a $42,000 grant to two USDA Forest Service scientists to synthesize existing research about the impacts of floodplain [...]

Endowment Partner Pursues Phone App to Track Forest Health Threats

The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) today made its first foray into engaging citizen scientists by putting its support behind a planned mobile phone application, [...]

Canada/ U.S. Forest Health Summit II

This document provides the results of an Endowment convening sponsored by the USDA Forest Service (USFS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) of Natural Resources Canada to address specific [...]

The Wood Pellet Value Chain

Presents a hypothetical case study of how wood-to-energy facilities in Virginia and Georgia could increase the sustainability of their biomass supply chains. View PDF