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2012 SmallWood Conference - Flagstaff Arizona

NNFP Website HELP Team Member Nora is in Flagstaff, AZ for the Small Wood Conference. She will be speaking about maximizing your time on Social Media. http://www.forestprod.org/smallwood/


Telling the Story of the Living Forest

NNFP Videographer Pradeep Edussuriya traveled to Wisconsin to profile the Living Forest Cooperative and members Karen A'Llerio and Kent Makela. A glimpse of his trip is on the Blog.

Videos will added by the end of April.


Kent with a firewood bundled with his homemade twine bundler.

NNFP Leadership Program Off to a Great Second Year!

Participants solve a group challenge

As a result of the donations from our members and partners (with more needed still...) the NNFP Creative Leadership program brought on a new cohort. 15 leaders from across the US, Alabama to Alaska and Nevada to DC will be participating in this rigorous and inspiring training.

To hear more about the program Click



Board Election Results

Congratulations to the following 4 NNFP members who have been elected to the NNFP board!
Board Applicants 2010-2012 .rtf



NNFP Leadership Development Program Seeking Scholarship Donations


After last year's Leadership for the Long Haul program proved so successful and transformative, NNFP decided to conduct another program in 2010, involving two leadership retreats, ongoing coaching, and development of a peer support network.

We are looking for individuals and organizations to make donations and sponsorships to allow us to have a scholarship fund for participants who cannot otherwise afford to go.

Learn more about the program at NNFP Leadership Program

15 Participants have been selected to participate in the program. Currently we are raising scholarship funds for the $8,350 of scholarships that are needed by the participants. To grant needed scholarships we need to raise this amount in donations by Summer. Several pledges have been made, but we encourage members do donate what they can. One board member donated a full tuition scholarship of $600, and other donations are rolling in.

To donate you can go to www.nnfp.org and click "Donate Now".


NNFP and our Sustainable Woods Network covered in Treehugger.com during Green Build

Treehugger.com is a leading site among "green consumers", with 1.6 million visitors/month.


NNFP Visits Montana for Outreach and Communications Project

As part of a Conservation Innovation Grant received by the Swan Ecosystem Center, members of NNFP's team visited the Swan Valley to conduct interviews and shoot photos for a series of landowner profiles which will be used for outreach to landowners in the Valley. Out of this trip we also hope to develop business and organizational profiles that tell the story of folks working for sustainable forestry and rural livelihoods.

This project is part of a growing body of work that NNFP is undertaking to communicate stories of sustainable forestry rural job creation.

Digital Storytelling for Landowner Engagement post


NNFP Montana Visit


Visit NNFP, and the Sustainable Woods Network booth at Green Build!


Partnering with North Slope Sustainable Wood, NNFP will be talking with builders and architects from across the country about the potential benefits of buying local and sustainably produced wood!

The booth will outreach to builders and architects to engage them with the beta version of www.sustainablewoods.com.

Visit us at booth 3067 (click for map) at Green Build, November 10-12 and spread the word!


NNFP Partners with Rainforest Alliance and Blue Ridge Forest Cooperative for booth at Green Festival in DC!

Harry Groot of BRFC, Lisa Stocker of Rainforest Alliance, and Colin Donohue of NNFP staffed a booth, talking to thousands of "green consumers" about the upcoming launch of the Sustainable Woods Network, the forest landcare activities (and wood products...) of BRFC, and FSC certification. The booth was an outgrowth of a collaboration of several partners in the Central Appalachian region focused on marketing of sustainably produced wood products.


NEWS- Woody Biomass Utilization Grants from US Forest Service

$4 Million+ is available for biomass removal projects on National Forest lands in priority National Forests

Map of these priority forests at Click Here

More information at http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/research/units/tmu/tmugrants.shtml

NEWS - US Forest Service S&P Redesign update

The State and Private Redesign will direct 15% of "net available" S&P funding into a competitive program.

For information on the overall redesign, go to the USFS page on the process-http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/redesign/index.shtml

A competitive grant process anticipated for October 2009, with more information at-
http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/redesign/fy2010_compet_guid.pdf

Blog Posts

The Living Forest Co-op

I recently made the trip to Northern Wisconsin to meet the folks at The Living Forest Co-op (LFC). My first contact with LFC was Kent Makela, the current board president of the Co-op who made the six-hour…

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Posted by pradeep edussuriya on March 16, 2010 at 10:30pm

Leadership for the Long Haul- With Your Help!!

Leadership for the Long Haul builds next generation leadership – With Your Help!



In 2009 NNFP graduated the first class of Leadership for the Long Haul. Participants found the program profound and transformative, preparing them for them for their next level of leadership and service to our communities and forests.



Click Here
- to hear from them



From a project leader from a… Continue

Posted by NNFP on December 3, 2009 at 6:27pm

Storytelling as a tool for outreach and engagement of landowners



Over the last year, NNFP has been partnering with the Swan Ecosystem Center (SEC) in Condon, Montana to develop a strategy to connect with, inform, and engage new landowners in the Swan Valley region. Land in the Swan Valley has undergone ownership changes in recent years that include—like many other places around the country—some second-homeowners and retirees moving to the area to enjoy a quieter rural lifestyle. Although SEC has an active… Continue

Posted by Leslie Horner on October 30, 2009 at 12:59pm

NNFP visits the Northwest woods

I visited Montana last week with a videographer who has been doing some work with NNFP to interview landowners in the Swan Valley and to begin work on developing some multimedia pieces to use as tools for communicating with and engaging landowners in forest stewardship practices. I'll share more about that in the next day or two, and we'll be posting some high-quality photos as they are formatted. For now I wanted to share these photos I took of a recent tour hosted by NNFP member NorthSlope… Continue

Posted by Leslie Horner on October 28, 2009 at 5:00pm

NNFP and Forest Cooperatives Highlighted in USDA's Rural Cooperatives Magazine

NNFP and the Forest Cooperatives we work with were highlighted in the latest issue of USDA's bi-monthly magazine, Rural Cooperatives.



Forester Thomas Wyse of the Living Forest Cooperative was highlighted on the cover, with a photo taken by Peter Hoffman, one of the NNFP Photo Fellows from last summer's "People and the Land" project. Additional photos from a visit to the Blue Ridge Forest Cooperative as part of the fellowship project… Continue

Posted by Scott Bagley on April 2, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

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People and the Land

Check out the photo galleries from our "People and the Land" photo project from last summer. Visit this link, then look on the right side of the page:



http://www.peopleandland.blogspot.com/…



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Thanks to everyone for a successful NNFP Annual Meeting in Missouri!



Check out a few photos from the meeting, and stay tuned for more:

http://nnfp.org/Images/Slideshows/2009AnnualMeeting/phpslideshow.php
 
 
 

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