American Forest Foundation Blog
It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
From to the world's first vertical forest, to the grinch who stole...half of a blue spruce, here's your tree news from around the world this week.
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Put Wood in a Green Building? Two Champions Say So.
While green building should offer market opportunities for family-owned forests, many green building policies at the federal, state, and local level discriminate against the use of wood in green buildings in favor of other materials.
Read More >It's Friday: Here's Your Week in Trees
Smokey Bear, bark beetles, Christmas tree tips, and nature photography round out this week in tree news.
Read More >Categories: Week in TreesCongress Wants to Get Rid of Smokey Bear
Congress wants to eliminate funding for the U.S. Forest Service’s conservation education program, which could mean we say farewell to Smokey Bear.
Read More >Categories: Environmental Education News for Forest Landowners Opinion PolicyWhat's Up With The Farm Bill?
For the past few months AFF ramped up its 2012 Farm Bill effort to influence the Agriculture Committees’ proposal to the Super Committee. In light of the Super Committee’s failure, the Agriculture Committees’ proposal was never released, but from what we’ve heard, there was both good news and bad news.
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