Sustainable Forest Management:
Making Progress on the Ground

Wednesday, June 26 in Washington, DC
House Briefing: 1:00 - 2:15 p.m., 2456 Rayburn House Office Building
Senate Briefing: 3:00 - 4:15 p.m., 220 Russell Senate Office Building

A Briefing Sponsored by Northeast-Midwest Senate and Congressional
Coalitions, Northeast-Midwest Institute, Pinchot Institute for Conservation, and
the Yale University Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry

Sustainable forest management works to enhance the environmental,
economic, and societal benefits of public and private forestlands. This
briefing will present some experiences of nonindustrial private landowners,
community-based groups, and Indian tribes in promoting and implementing
sustainable forest management practices on the ground, and identify how
federal policies can support their efforts.

The panelists will describe specific management practices they
have carried out; their successes and challenges in fostering forest
sustainability; the ways in which federal programs, policies, and
regulations support or hinder their efforts; and the types of federal
initiatives that could help advance forest sustainability.

Moderator:

Michael Washburn, Director, Program on Forest Certification, Yale
University Global Institute for Sustainable Forestry

Panelists:

• James Malone, Executive Director, Alabama TREASURE Forest Association, and Chairman, National Network of Private Forest Landowners
  
  
• Wendy Hinrichs Sanders, Director, Great Lakes Forest Alliance
  
  
• Bodie Shaw, Member and Former Forest Manager, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indians (Wasco); Assistant Professor, Oregon State University College of Extension and Natural Resources; and Current Congressional Fellow

Contact:

Barbara Wells, Sr. Policy Analyst
Northeast-Midwest Institute, 202/464-4019