Annual meeting

"Sustaining Rural Communities and Forests"
NNFP Annual Meeting

May 4-7, 2009 in the Missouri Ozarks

This will be NNFP’s annual meeting, but will be done on a partnership basis with others co-sponsoring. The conference, "Sustaining Rural Communities and Forests," will gather practitioners from across the nation working to create sustainable jobs for rural communities in conservation and management of forests, as well as value-adding of sustainably produced forest products.

View from the Annual Meeting site in Missouri

Check out additional pictures of the Missouri Ozarks on the People and the Land blog (go to the photo galleries on the right and find "Missouri").

Topics will include:

Forest-Based Cooperatives
Forest Land Care
Stewardship Contracting and Forest Restoration
Organic Wild Harvest and processing of NTFPs
Sustainable Forestry and Carbon Credits
FSC Group Certification and Green Building
Web Marketing and the Green Consumer
Funding and Community-Based Forestry
National Policy to Sustain Communities and Forests
And much, much more!

Scholarship funds are limited so we will be asking that members who can afford to contribute make donations to the Grassroots Scholarship Fund to allow practitioners to participate.

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If your organization would like to co-sponsor, or provide scholarships for your members, please contact Colin Donohue at colin@nnfp.org.