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Domestic Forests
How we manage forests in the U.S. not only impacts wildlife habitat, it also plays an essential role in how we reduce America's carbon footprint.
NWF has a number of initiatives underway to ensure that the benefits of forests are effectively included in federal climate legislation.
We also work to assist regional and tribal communities in realizing the economic benefits of managing forests through effective management practices and restoration efforts.
Our Healthy Forests Initiatives Include...
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Ensuring forests are included as an option for "offsets" to energy intensive industries through rigorous monitoring and performance tests as part of federal climate policy.
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Ensuring federal funding in federal climate policy to protect domestic native forests and grasslands, and to combat tropical deforestation.
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Positioning the US as a leader in international climate treaty negotiations on forest climate issues.
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Protecting and restoring America's great forests in the southern Longleaf Pine system, the boreal forests of northern Maine, and using model landscape conservation approaches in the Northern Rockies of Montana.
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Supporting tribal forest enterprises that seek to enter and participate in carbon markets which reward good forest management.
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Promoting forest restoration with African American and under-served forest landowners in the Black Belt region of the Deep South.
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Piloting a new urban forest program in the greater Seattle, Washington area that would sequester new carbon in exchange for new tax incentives to landowners.
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Forest-Climate Working Group - FCWG was started in December 2007 to build consensus on how forests can play a meaningful role in addressing climate change.