News Briefs

View a pictorial slideshow from NNFP's 2009 ANNUAL MEETING,

"Sustaining Rural Communities
and Forests:
Building Resilience
in the Face of Change"

NNFP joins Biomass Thermal Energy Council as a Founding Member.
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) is a nonprofit association dedicated to advancing the use of biomass for heat and other thermal energy applications. BTEC engages in research, education, and public advocacy for the fast growing biomass thermal energy industry. Learn more at: http://www.biomassthermal.org/

NNFP's work with forest cooperatives highlighted in the March/April issue of USDA's Rural Cooperatives Magazine. Read the article by clicking here or on the image to the right. Many of the photos in the article from last summer's "People and the Land" photo fellowship, including the cover photo of Thomas Wyse, Forester with the Living Forest Cooperative.

NNFP's Appalachian Forest Resource Center puts out call for mini-grant proposals.
Small pool of funding available for forestry innovators to explore the feasibility of new products and services, plan and conduct innovative new marketing activities, conduct member recruitment and development activities, and other similar activities. Link to the AFRC page for more information.

NNFP Awarded USDA Rural Cooperative Development Grant.
Read the USDA press release.

NNFP on Local NPR station
NNFP Executive Director Colin Donohue's 5-minute interview aired on WOUB, the local NPR station in Athens, Ohio.

Other News Sources
From an article in the Ohio University Outlook from July 21, 2008, " Chronicling people and the land: students document conservation, sustainability":
Four graduate students in the School of Visual Communication's photojournalism program are documenting stories of rural America this summer to help inspire support for conservation and sustainable forestry activities. The Athens-based National Network of Forest Practitioners and the Center for Rural Strategies in Whitesburg, Ky., awarded the fellowships to Jim Korpi, Peter Hoffman, Michael DiBari and Sherry DiBari.
Read the article.

From an article about Family Forestry in the New York Times:
"In 2002, when Carolyn Vassar Pickett’s mother died, she seriously considered selling the family land in Marengo County, AL. But a childhood friend encouraged her to contact the National Network of Forest Practitioners..."
Read the article.