The
National
Community Forestry Business Alliance is an
alliance dedicated to supporting forest stewardship and
locally-owned wood products businesses throughout the nation
through capacity building, market development, and networking
services. The National Community Forestry Business Alliance was
founded by a group of entrepreneurial rural community nonprofit
and business leaders committed to finding and implementing a
‘triple bottom line approach’ to economic revitalization: one
that integrates forest stewardship, successful wood products
businesses, and community values. Our key overall objectives
include:
ü
Advancing
forest stewardship and community economic development through a
more solid link between the sustainable forestry sector and the
marketplace;
ü
Fostering
successful community forestry businesses by networking efforts
at the local, regional and national level;
ü
Increasing
market access and sales of products from community forestry
businesses.
Alliance
Founding Members:
Appalachian Sustainable
Development, Abingdon, VA
Blue Ridge
Forest Cooperative,
Hiwassee, VA
Gila WoodNet and
Santa Clara
Woodworks,
Silver City, NM
Montana Community Development
Corporation, Missoula, MT
National Network of Forest
Practitioners, Athens, OH
North
Quabbin Woods Project, New
England Forestry Foundation, Orange, MA
Rapid
Improvement Associates, Madison, WI
Sierra Nevada
Forest Protection Campaign, Sacramento, CA
Southern
Forests Network, Asheville, NC
Sustainable Northwest/Healthy
Forests Healthy Communities, Portland, OR
Wallowa Resources,
Enterprise, OR
Watershed Research
and Training Center, Hayfork, CA
The Alliance’s
National Coordinator is
Sustainable Northwest's Healthy Forests Healthy Communities
Partnership, contact Ryan Temple, 503-221-6911 ext. 112,
rtemple@sustainablenorthwest.org
