Forest Communities
Up one levelWe work to revitalize and sustain rural, forest-dependent communities through collaborative restoration and market-based conservation.
We work to revitalize and sustain rural, forest-dependent communities through collaborative restoration and market-based conservation. By bringing together cutting-edge innovation, urban investment, and the West’s forestry workforce, we’re helping to forge a new forest economy through diverse enterprises, jobs in forest restoration, use of small diameter timber, and improved regional markets for sustainably produced forest products.
Learn more about these networks and resources:
- Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Partnership
- Sustainable Northwest's Forest and Natural Resource Policy Program
- Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
- Sustainable Northwest's program in Sustainability Finance
- Stewardship Contracting Guidebooks
- A series of three guidebooks discussing aspects of stewardship contracting including multiparty monitoring, collaboration, and best value criteria.
- House Subcomm Hearing
- House Subcomm Hearing
- Montanan, Idahoan “Tied to the Land” Testify in D.C.
- The message to Capitol Hill: "We are new voices. We are not the voices of industry and we are not the voices of environmentalism. We are a third way ...”
- Extending a hand of partnership...
- On a day when SNW partners testify before the House Subcommittee On National Parks, Forests And Public Lands, Maia Enzer shares her perspective.
- July 15, 2010 Subcommittee Hearing
- House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands oversight hearing on “Locally Grown: Creating Rural Jobs with America’s Public Lands”