Smokey Bear stars in new PSAs and an Educational DVD in time for July 4th. WASHINGTON—The Advertising Council joined today with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) to launch a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) and an educational DVD for elementary school students designed to provide critical information to [read more]

Together with its partners in fire prevention, NASF is pleased to announce the launch of the new and improved smokeybear.com. Go ahead - click on over and check it out! Nearly nine out of every 10 wildfires in the United States are human-caused, which demonstrates one staggering fact: most of our nation's wildfires can be [read more]

Smokey Bear stars in new CG-animated PSAs and appears on Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube in time for July 4th. WASHINGTON—The Advertising Council joined today with the U.S. Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters to launch a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) designed to celebrate Smokey Bear's 65th birthday and provide [read more]

WASHINGTON—The Ad Council, in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service, the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and Disney, announced today the launch of a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) designed to raise awareness about wildfire prevention. The new PSAs feature characters and scenes from Disney's Bambi and communicate Smokey Bear's enduring message, [read more]

New PSAs and Smokey Bear’s first mobile app launch in time for the holiday weekend. WASHINGTON—The Ad Council, along with the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF), launched a new series of public service advertisements (PSAs) featuring Smokey Bear designed to provide critical information to Americans about wildfire prevention. The [read more]

NASF supports the suite of USDA Forest Service State, Private, and Tribal Forestry (SP&TF) programs as a means to bolster America’s economy and improve environmental outcomes. With Forest Action Plans as their guide, state forestry agencies leverage SP&TF program dollars with state and private investments to protect forests across the United States. Click here for [read more]

NASF sells educational materials and products like State Tree posters and Smokey Bear items through a field office in Franklinton, North Carolina. State, federal and local agencies, teachers, fire departments and other public safety groups, educators and community service organizations are all able to order materials through NASF to help build awareness and promote wildfire [read more]

Urban and community forests provide essential benefits we cannot live without. My Tree—Our Forest®, NASF's urban and community forestry campaign, aims to increase public understanding about the benefits that healthy forests offer to communities across the United States and the role that state forestry agencies play in protecting the nation’s urban trees.  Download the new My Tree—Our Forest fact sheet for [read more]

NASF has officially launched our redesigned website. The new website was designed to be more user friendly and offers several new features, including a searchable document library and a link to our online education materials store. The Current Issues and Policy page allows you to find detailed information on industry issues and related NASF documents [read more]

NASF, the U.S. Forest Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the National Association of Conservation Districts have launched a new website (http://www.jointforestryteam.com) as part of their partnership in the Joint Forestry Team. The Team's mission is to work together to improve forestry and conservation assistance and resources to increase the number of state and [read more]