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