Related Links

In order to best serve community needs we provide the following links which may provide additional helpful information regarding various aspects of forestry and community planning.

Related Organizations and Networks

AdirondackWood.com is an Internet-based wood products directory designed and developed by Holmes & Associates in Saranac Lake, New York. The concept for AdirondackWood grew out of a regional wood products assessment developed by Holmes & Associates for the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) in 1997. AdirondackWood.com premiered in May 1999 and was one of the first on-line regional wood products directories. After nearly two years, the Web site now has listings for over 600 wood-based companies and artists in the 14 county Adirondack North Country region, including sawmills, rustic fine furniture makers, rustic home accessories craftspeople, wooden toy makers, and others. A complete make over of the site in January, 2001 significantly enhanced its business search and business assistance features, and it now includes a searchable company directory, bulletin boards, events calendar, news articles, business assistance resource links, information about the forest resources in the region, and links to sustainable forestry information. The staff at Holmes & Associates updates the business listings and other information on a weekly basis. Based in the center of the New York portion of the Northern Forest, this Internet-based business development effort provides high tech work for at least eight professionals who reside in the region. They recently developed a sister-site: AdirondackCraft.com, that serves as an e-commerce outlet for wood products companies, artists and others working in the region. For more information, contact Tim Holmes, Holmes & Associates at 518-891-6525, holmes@adirondackresearch.com

The American Tree Farm System is a national organization for private landowners, promoting good forest stewardship with emphasis on wood, water, recreation, and wildlife.

Clean Water Network
1200 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
202-289-2395, 202-289-1060 fax
www.cwn.org

Clean Water Network (CWN) is an alliance of over 1000 organizations working to protect America’s water resources. Among its services, CWN offers monthly Clean Water Status Reports and action alerts, and sponsors an annual clean water activist conference. CWN’s website features fact sheets, local advocacy information, Congressional scorecards, and links to other Congressional and water-related sites. Users have access to press kit materials, annual reports and issue area papers.

Chewonki Foundation
Don Hudson
485 Chewonki Neck Road
Wiscasset, ME 04578
(207) 882-7323
dhudson@chewonki.org
www.chewonki.org

The Chewonki Foundation is a non-profit educational institution organized in 1962. The diverse programs of the Foundation are drawn from their educational mission and include a summer camp, a semester of academic and personal challenges for high school juniors, a variety of educational group programs, and wilderness excursions for adults, families and individuals.

Communities Committee
Lynn Jungwirth, Chairperson
C/o the Watershed Research and Training Center
P.O. Box 356
Hayfork, CA 96041
530-628-4206, 530-628-5100 fax
www.communitiescommittee.org
lynnj@hayfork.net

The Communities Committee was born out of the 7th American Forest Congress held in Washington, DC in 1996. The purpose of the Communities Committee is to focus attention on the interdependence of America’s forests and the vitality of rural and urban communities. The committee has three broad areas of activity: communication between and among communities that are creating innovative community-based approaches to forest management; research on those approaches in a manner that will help reveal the defining principles of community-based forestry; and constituency-building for community-based forestry through policy-related information development, education of a national audience, and dialogue with national interest groups. The committee also publishes a newsletter and operates an Internet discussion group.

Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County
Community Forestry Program
http://www.co.st-lawrence.ny.us/Cooperative_Extension/forestry/SLCCECFP.htm

Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County has developed a Community Forestry web page, which is a rich resource for tree care professionals, municipal planners, public works departments, grounds managers and homeowners.

One of the most valuable features of this web page is a series of community forestry fact sheets developed by Jerry Bond (Davey Resource Group) while he was Community Forester at Monroe County Extension. The fact sheets are in a one page, bulleted, and easy to read format that makes them ideal for handing out to work crews along with work orders, to citizen volunteers or to homeowners. The fact sheets contain current, accurate information on virtually every community forestry subject, from site assessment and tree selection to fertilizing and hazard recognition. Each one lists reference materials for more detailed information on the subject. Fact sheets can be easily downloaded from the website.

The web page also has a series of articles developed by Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County. The articles are very readable, and cover many community forestry topics such as preventing construction damage, avoiding deicing salt injury and how to choose a tree care professional. There are also reference sheets on young tree care, cold- hardy tree species, and tree species tolerant of various site conditions. A community calendar lists upcoming events sponsored by Extension and other agencies like New York State Arborists. Links to other community forestry websites are also provided.

Cornell University
Department of Natural Resources
Cornell Cooperative Extension Forestry
http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/ext/forestrypage/general_info/mission.htm

The goal of the Extension Forestry program is to provide leadership statewide for educational, research-based programs that address the stewardship and sustainable production needs associated with the management of private, nonindustrial forestland. Programs are directed toward the needs of nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners. Audiences include primarily NIPF owners, including maple producers, and also professional foresters, loggers, and youth.

Corporation for Enterprise Development
777 North Capitol Street, NE
Suite 410
Washington, DC 2002
202-408-9788, 202-408-9793 fax
cfed@cfed.org
www.cfed.org

The mission of CFED is to foster widely shared and sustainable economic well being, by promoting asset-building strategies, primarily in low-income and distressed communities, that bring together practice, public policy, and private markets in new and effective ways. CFED’s website includes links to many programs such as Individual Development Accounts, Development Finance, Sustainable Development, Common Assets, and Business Climates.

Directory of Forest Products, Wood Science and Marketing Online
www.forestdirectory.com
For more information contact: esw@u.washington.edu

This website serves as a resource for information on the forest products industry, forest products, wood science and technology, wood engineering, forest products marketing, wood products-based research institutions, and wood industry associations and data sources. It contains nearly 2,000 links.

The Environmental Support Center
4420 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20008-2301
202-966-9834, 202-966-4398f
www.envsc.org

The Environmental Support Center helps strengthen local, state, and regional organizations working on environmental issues. It believes the best way to improve the environment is to help grassroots organizations grow stronger and more powerful. The Center’s website provides helpful information about the organization and its services, which include training and organizational assistance, technology resources, the Environmental Loan Fund, State Environmental Leadership Conferences, publications and applications.

Ford Foundation
Community and Resource Development
320 E. 43rd Street
New York, NY 10017
212-573-5000, 212-351-3660f
www.fordfound.org

The Community and Resource Development unit (CRD) supports the development of sustainable communities that respond to the need for increased economic opportunity, environmental health, and social equity. The CRD unit emphasizes strengthening the community-based institutions that can mobilize human, financial, natural, and cultural assets to address poverty. Supported activities aim to increase local access, control, ownership, and benefits of these assets through collaboration and collective action.

Forestinformation.com is dedicated to becoming the Web's premier site for sharing facts about North America's abundant, growing forests. They combine the research of Canadian U.S. and United Nations forestry resources in an effort to educate people on the value forests provide, as well as efforts across North America to sustainably manage these forests for future generations.

Forestworld
P.O. Box 426
161 Austin Drive #7
Burlington, VT 05402
802-865-1111, 802-863-4344f
info@forestworld.com
www.forestworld.com

The Forestworld mission is to make available a wealth of information on the use, care, and preservation of the world’s forests. The organization’s focus is better organization of the huge volume of information stored on the Internet. The Forestworld directory is a fully searchable database of sites relating to the forest products industry. It is designed to be constantly added to and updated through the direct contributions of thousands of individuals and businesses managing their own Internet sites. Website features include technical wood information databases, a sustainable forestry marketplace, classified ads, and events and conference postings.

USDA Forest Service
www.fs.fed.us

The Forest Service’s website contains links to all of their regional offices, news and information on national forests, current happenings within the USDA, and legislation.

Forest Stewards Guild
P.O. Box 519
Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-983-8992, 505-986-0798f
foresttrust@igc.apc.org
www.foreststewardsguild.com

The mission of the Guild is to promote ecologically responsible resource management that sustains the entire forest across the landscape. The Guild provides a forum and support system for practicing foresters and other resource management professionals working to advance this vision.

Forest Stewardship Council
P.O. Box 10
Waterbury, VT 05676
802-244-6257, 802-244-6258f
info@fscus.org
www.certifiedproducts.org

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an independent, nonprofit, non-governmental organization. FSC supports environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world’s forests. FSC promotes responsible forest management by evaluating and accrediting certifiers, by encouraging the development of national and regional forest management standards, and by providing public education and information about independent, third-party certification as a tool for ensuring that the world’s forests are protected for future generations. FSC’s certified products website provides product and company information, as well as product registration capabilities.

Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10003-3076
212-620-4230, 212-691-1828f
mfn@fdncenter.org
www.fdncenter.org

The Foundation Center’s website is a useful resource for organizations seeking funding and grant proposal opportunities. The website contains a list of grant-making foundations, which is organized by regions and topics, and is available to the public. The site also features a schedule of grant-proposal training sessions around the country and, for foundations, an on-line library.

Land Trust Alliance
1319 F Street
Suite 501
Washington, dc 20004
202-638-4725, 202-638-6730f
www.lta.org

The Land Trust Alliance (LTA) promotes voluntary land conservation and strengthens the land trust movement by providing the leadership, information, skills and resources that land trusts need to conserve land for the benefit of communities and natural systems. LTA’s website provides resource lists, news links, and information on current legislative public policies. The site also offers user-friendly information on protecting land, setting up a land trust, and land trust success stories. Links also available to current projects in each state, both public and private.

The National Arbor Day Foundation
www.arborday.org

The National Arbor Day Foundation encourages tree planting and environmental stewardship... in your own yard and neighborhood... in your community ... and in your world. Nearly a million members and supporters across the nation make The National Arbor Day Foundation's educational programs possible. These programs help further the cause of tree planting and environmental stewardship and provide focus for organized efforts of tree professionals, governmental officials, and citizen volunteers nationwide. The National Arbor Day Foundation was founded in 1972 to help people plant and care for trees. Today the Foundation has grown into a national membership organization that distributed 8 million trees to its members last year alone. The Foundation is reaching out to environmental stewards around the world, in America's cities, towns, and farmlands, and in the planet's irreplaceable rain forests. Education remains central to the Foundation's mission of making our world a greener, more tree-filled place.

National Association of Development Organizations
444 N. Capitol Street
Suite 630
Washington, dc 20001
202-624-7806, 202-624-8813f
nado@sso.org
www.nado.org

NADO is a membership organization promoting economic and community development in small metropolitan and rural areas. It produces NADO News and Economic Development Digest, and provides current information on economic, community and business development legislation and programs at the federal, state, and local levels. NADO’s website provides updates on legislative happenings in Congress, and links to state agencies, Congressional offices, and academic institutions. Links are also available to NADO’s coalition activities such as economic development, rural renaissance, rural development partnerships, sustainable development and rural development.

National Woodland Owners Association
374 Maple Avenue East
Suite 310
Vienna, VA 22180-4751
703-255-2700
http://www.nationalwoodlands.org/nwoa/nwoa.asp

The National Woodland Owners Association is a nationwide organization of non-industrial private woodland owners promoting good forestry in all 50 states.

The Northern Forest Alliance is a coalition of conservation, recreation and forestry organizations united in their commitment to protect the Northern Forest of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York.

Rural Community Assistance
USDA Forest Service Cooperative Forestry
Susan Odell
P.O. Box 96090
Washington, DC 20090-6090
202 205-1385, 202-205-0975f
sodell/wo@fs.fed.us
www.fs.fed.us/spf/coop/rca.html

The Forest Service operates several technical and financial programs to address the needs of rural communities. Rural Community Assistance (RCA) Program Coordinators provide network/partnership connections, program oversight, process management, and technical assistance in different parts of the country. RCA Coordinators are part of a larger team of State & Private Forestry employees and are a direct link to the employees and resources of the national forests and grasslands as well as the agency’s research units including the National Forest Products Lab.

Resource Conservation & Development
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
14th and Independence Avenue SW
Room 6103-s
Washington, dc 20013
202-720-2241, 202-690-4205f
www.nrcs.usda.gov

The purpose of the Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) program is to accelerate the conservation, development and utilization of natural resources, improve the general level of economic activity, and enhance the environment and standard of living in authorized RC&D areas. Authorized RC&D areas are locally sponsored areas designated by the Secretary of Agriculture for RC&D technical and financial assistance program funds. Natural Resource Conservation Service can provide grants for land conservation, water management, community development, and environmental needs in RC&D areas.

Rural Information Center
National Agricultural Library
Room 34
Beltsville, MD 20705
1-800-633-7701
nalric@asrr.arsusda.gov

RIC is a joint project of the Extension Service and the National Agricultural Library. It is designed to provide information and referral services to local government officials, community organizations, health professionals and organizations, rural electric and telephone cooperatives, libraries, businesses, and rural citizens working to maintain the vitality of America’s rural areas. It combines the technical, subject-matter expertise of the Extension’s nationwide educational network with the information specialists and resources of the world’s foremost agricultural library. The Center’s publication list includes economical development viability publications, health services, leadership, public decisions and community change documents.

Rural Update
Aspen Institute Rural Economic Policy Program
www.aspeninst.org

Established in 1985, the Aspen Institute’s Rural Economic Policy Program (REPP) fosters collaborative learning, leadership and innovation to advance rural community and economic development in the United States. REPP works with rural decision-makers to accelerate the adoption of initiatives that will sustain rural progress. REPP publishes the Rural Update newsletter, a monthly compilation of news and resources on rural community economic development. Rural Update is available free via e-mail; back issues and subscription information can be found at www.aspeninst.org/rural/.

Sustainable Communities Network
Sustainable Community Roundtable
2129 Bethel Street, NE
Olympia, WA 98506
306-754-7842, 306-754-7842f
dpcraig@igc.apc.org
www.sustainable.org

SCN’s website is a comprehensive resource for citizens working to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities, offering case studies, a reading list, and links to other websites and organizations engaged in similar work.

The Vermont Backyard Forest Stewardship Program offers free stewardship assistance to private landowners in Chittenden County and Rutland County and surrounding areas with 25 acres or less. It is a collective effort between the: Winooski Natural Resource Conservation District, Rutland NRCD, and Poultney Mettawee NRCD. The main objectives of the program are increasing the amount of stewardship on smaller parcels and restoring the connectivity of people and land.

Community Development & Planning

Community Forestry

www.treelink.org is an urban and community forestry resource, featuring the URBNRNET listserve, a calendar, and related links.

A recent report titled "Wood Flows in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, 1997", by the Irland Group for the North East Foresters Association (NEFA), describes the movement of unprocessed logs, pulpwood, and wood chips around the northeast. Download the report from the NEFA website at http://nefa.conknet.com

Town Forest Resource Page. The primary objective of this project was to identify, research, and document six cases of town forests highly utilized by communities for diverse community benefits in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine to serve as examples for others. These “model” case studies, based on interviews of community leaders, highlight each forest’s biophysical and cultural characteristics, management objectives, institutional arrangements, sources of funding, and outreach events.

Funding & Grant Information

A site with a full text report on funding options from the federal government for rural development. The site also links to several federal agencies with descriptions of the funding programs provided by each agency.

This site is a clearinghouse of information on foundations and the programs that they support. Not specific to rural development but information on rural development can be found.

This site does not provide specific grant information. However, it has a wealth of information about how to search for grants, write grant proposals, and administer awarded grants. It is more a guide for professional interaction with the grant-funding world.

This site simply links to several federal government agency sites with information about rural development grants.

Law & Policy

www.econdata.net is a free, Federally funded resource for accessing
on-line regional socioeconomic data. The site includes links to over 400 federal, state, commercial, and nonprofit sources for data.
On-line issues of "Conservation Ecology". Conservation Ecology is an electronic, peer-reviewed scientific journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research. Content ranges from applied to theoretical, and covers issues such as conservation, restoration, ecosystem management, and ecological/social dynamics. Issues can be viewed on-line or free subscriptions (via e-mail) can be arranged. Visit www.consecol.org.

"Money to Burn: The Economics of Fire and Fuels Management". A report by Dr. Timothy Ingalsbee (of American Lands) on the effects of fire suppression on the National Forests. Visit www.americanlands.org/forestweb/fire.htm for a copy of the report. You can contact Dr. Ingalsbee directly at (e-mail) fi@efn.org.

A Forest Landowner's Guide to Internet Resources: States of the Northeast from Mark Buccowich, USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry http://www.na.fs.fed.us/pubs/misc/ir/

Related Organizations and Networks

Community Development & Planning

Community Forestry

Funding & Grant Information

Law & Policy

Watershed & Ecosystem

Technology