Professional Forestry Services and Organizations
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| American Forest Foundation |
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| Association of Consulting Foresters |
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| Keep Oregon Green Association |
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| Oregon Society of American Foresters |
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| Pinchot Institute |
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| Western Forestry & Conservation Association |
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American Forest Foundation
www.forestfoundation.org
Contact: Parks Brigman, western regional manager
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 571-480-1048
In the West, AFF works on the ground with families, teachers and elected officials to promote stewardship and protect the values provided by our nation’s forest heritage. AFF works nationwide and in partnership with local, state and national groups to address ecological and economic challenges that require the engagement of family forest landowners. AFF works with partners in key forested communities to help build a robust understanding of how to inspire and engage woodland owners to take actions on their land that will ultimately protect forest values.
AFF’s primary goal is to foster proactive and engaged communities to reduce wildfire risks and protect water supplies across the West by providing its forest landowners with information, educational workshops and technical assistance that will help them make sound, sustainable multi-resource management decisions for their land.
Associated Oregon Loggers
www.oregonloggers.org
Contact: Rex Storm, executive vice president
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 503-364-1330
AOL is a trade organization that provides business and government affairs services to its member companies. The AOL website includes a Directory of Oregon’s certified professional logging contractors that can assist family forestland owners looking for a local logging contractor. While most members are forest harvest and road-related contractors, membership categories also welcome landowners, manufacturers, forestry contractors and vendors serving the harvest sector. Membership includes benefits such as technical assistance with regulation compliance and group insurance programs in health, liability and workers’ compensation.
Association of Consulting Foresters
www.acf-foresters.org
Contact: Shannon McCabe, executive director
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 703-548-0990
Find an ACF forester in your area
The Association of Consulting Foresters of America, Inc. (ACF) is a national organization of professional foresters who consider forestry-related activities an essential private enterprise. Membership in the association is limited to professional foresters who subscribe to a code of ethics and serve the general public independently in all woodland-related interests. Members are generalists and specialists with skills including timber cruising and appraising, timber sales, marketing and management, reforestation supervision, taxation, estate planning, growth modeling, management plans, GIS mapping, real estate brokerage, expert witness, arbitration, and general management services. They offer a full range of professional and unbiased services to family forestland owners. The Association requires continuing education requirements of its members. An interactive website connects landowners to the organization’s complete scope of service providers.
Ecotrust
www.ecotrust.org
Contact:David Diaz, director of forestry technology
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 503-227-6225
Ecotrust’s mission is to inspire fresh thinking that creates economic opportunity, social equity and environmental well-being. Ecotrust offers public, private and tribal land managers a suite of forest planning and conservation tools to support forest management. It also evaluates the potential economic and job benefits of ecological forestry and habitat restoration for clients and partners.
Keep Oregon Green Association
www.keeporegongreen.org
Contact: Kristin Babbs, president
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 503-945-7499
The Keep Oregon Green Association is a nonprofit association whose mission is to raise awareness of human-caused wildfires in Oregon and to educate Oregonians to change their behaviors to prevent wildfires. www.keeporegongreen.org; A parent/teacher-involved, kid friendly, activity-based website is available at www.kogranger.org
Northwest Natural Resource Group
www.nnrg.org
Contact: Kirk Hanson, director of forestry
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 360-316-9317
The Northwest Natural Resource Group’s mission is to strengthen the ecological and economic vitality of Northwest forests and communities by connecting people with the knowledge, skills and markets they need to steward their land. NNRG is a think-learn-and-do tank of ecological forestry. It seeks to advance the state of knowledge about ecological forestry, spread the word about its benefits and feasibility, and help landowners put it into practice on their own forests. Operating primarily in western Washington and
Oregon, NNRG focuses on forests owned and managed by private landowners, smaller forest product companies, governmental agencies, Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations. Whether you’ve just acquired your forestland and need to draw up a management plan, or you’re preparing to harvest some of your timber, NNRG can help. NNRG’s team of seasoned foresters will work with you and your forestland to attain your economic ecological and social goals.
Oregon Society of American Foresters
www.forestry.org (Oregon)
www.safnet.org (national)
Contact: Andrea Watts, SAF NW Office
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 503-224-8046
The Oregon Society of American Foresters is a professional organization with 15 local chapters throughout Oregon. It’s affiliated with the national Society of American Foresters. The Society of American Foresters produces general, technical and scholarly publications in both printed and electronic form, policy statements and educational materials. The national, state and local chapters regularly sponsor educational conferences, workshops and tours. The Society of American Foresters has a national, voluntary certification for foresters meeting initial and continuing education requirements. A list of these Certified Foresters® is available to land owners seeking forest management advice.
Family forestland owners may be interested in contacting local chapters to learn more about the resources available at the national website located at safnet.org. These resources include the Dictionary of Forestry, the Forestry Encyclopedia and a list of how a Certified Forester® could assist a forest owner.
Pinchot Institute
www.pinchot.org
Contact: Josh Fain, project director, western regional office
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 503-836-7880
The mission of the Pinchot Institute is to strengthen forest conservation thought, policy and action by developing innovative, practical and broadly supported solutions to conservation challenges and opportunities. This is accomplished through nonpartisan research, education and technical assistance on key issues influencing the future of conservation and sustainable natural resource management.
Western Forestry & Conservation Association
www.westernforestry.org
WFCA is a regional membership organization of primarily industrial forestry companies and consultants in Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho and Montana, British Columbia and Alberta. Its primary mission is to promote the science and practices of forestry for the sustainable production of goods, services and uses of forest resources. A variety of professional continuing education opportunities are offered for natural resource managers through workshops, conferences and field trips. WFCA also provides financial and administrative management of regional research and scientific cooperatives.