For the 33rd consecutive year, Ohio leads the nation for Tree City USA designations with 244 communities achieving the title this year. The program, which is sponsored by the National Association of State Foresters, the Arbor Day Foundation, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the National League of Cities, requires that [read more]
Steve Sinclair, State Forester for the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation has been named chair of a new Independent Standards Review Panel (ISRP) by the American Tree Farm System System® (ATFS) which will be comprised of a body of 14 forest stakeholders. The ISRP is charged with reviewing the American Forest Foundation (AFF)’s current [read more]
Each year, the Arkansas Tree Farm committee inspects a required number of properties to evaluate their management plans according to the Tree Farm Standards of Certification. In 2013, volunteer inspectors visited 215 Tree Farms and signed up 59 new woodlands into the program, administered in Arkansas by the Arkansas Forestry Association (AFA). There are 1,835 [read more]
