The Sustaining Family Forests Initiative is a collaboration organized to gain comprehensive knowledge about family forest owners in the United States. Members of the initiative include government agencies, forest industry companies, conservation organizations, certification systems, landowner groups, and universities. At a minimum, all of these groups agree on the importance of keeping forests as forests and good forest stewardship.

 

 

Contact Us

For more information about the SFFI, and how you may become involved in our efforts, please contact our program coordinators:

Mary Tyrrell

Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
mary.tyrrell "at" yale.edu (please type address using the @ symbol)
203.432.5983

Brett Butler

Forest Inventory & Analysis, Family Forest Research Center
Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service
bbutler01 "at" fs.fed.us (please type address using the @ symbol)
413.545.1387

 

We aim to provide credible, useful information that will serve as a wide-ranging resource to aid in the development of outreach and services, so that organizations working with family forest owners can be more strategic in meeting education, outreach, and service goals, that will lead to enhanced stewardship of private lands and help keep forests as forests.