| | Center for Conservation Solutions
AFF’s Center for Conservation Solutions (CCS) will cultivate and support a network of conservation and research partners to advance AFF’s conservation goals. Our approach to forest conservation challenges are to provide forest landowners with the necessary tools to manage their lands for both ecological and economic gains which are essential to environmental benefits for all of us.
CCS will undertake exciting, new activities in addition to continuing its work under Forests for Watersheds and Wildlife™ (F2W2), the habitat conservation program. F2W2 works with private forest landowners in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana to restore longleaf and Southern pine which provides critical habitat for more than 300 species including the threatened Gopher Tortoise. F2W2 is a proactive, voluntary, cost effective approach to forest conservation that helps landowners learn about sustainable options.
The creation of national, multi-year, science based initiatives to address invasive species, the use of prescribed fire, and conservation incentives on family forests will fall under CCS. These initiatives will strengthen the forestry community’s ability to address these issues while working towards very specific conservation goals. CCS will also pool resources and expertise to address the predicted loss of great swaths of southern forests, identified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Southern Forest Resource Assessment.
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