Policy Issues

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AFF is uniquely positioned to bring leadership to public policy conversations by promoting laws and policies at all government levels – as well as education and planning tools – that enable families to pass their stewardship legacy to next generations and promote education about the environment and our forests.
 
AFF’s reputation, diverse partnerships, extensive networks, and independent voice can expand opportunities for forests to become a source of renewable energy, a climate mitigation tool, and way to sustain rural communities and green jobs.

Through our advocacy efforts, AFF fosters strong and remunerative markets, forest conservation incentives, and a workable regulatory environment so forest landowners can earn a return for all the products they make in the woods and continue to provide the environmental and community benefits we all enjoy--including wood and paper, clean air, clean water, wildlife, green space, and recreation.

AFF Public Policy Priorities:

• Favorable Tax Environment for Working Family Forests
• Family Forests: Solution to Climate Change
• Family Forests: Source of Clean, Renewable Energy
• Funding Priorities
• 2008 Farm Bill Implementation
• Greening America with Products from Family Forests
• Environmental Education Policy
• The Endangered Species Act and Working Family Forests

More Policy Resources

Forest-Climate recommendations of diverse coalition of conservation, industry, wildlife and landowner groups. The participants in the Forest-Climate Working Group—landowner, industry, conservation, wildlife, carbon finance, and forestry organizations—have engaged in a year of facilitated consensus dialogues to develop this policy platform.
Report on how private forests could do more to offset carbon emissions. The American Forest Foundation issued this primer that explains in plain English how family forests can become a key part of our nation's solutions to the vexing issue of climate change.
U.S. Forest Service National Woodland Owners report. This report highlights general ownership patterns and key information about family forest owners from the National Woodland Owner Survey, which is conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, to help us better understand who owns the forests of the United States and how they use it.