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Northeast · Pacific West · Southwest · Other Regions

The Forest Guild is a national organization with strong roots in local communities across the country. The Guild's region efforts tackle issues and challenges specific to each region and bring together members from that area. Currently, the Guild has region directors in the Northeast, Pacific West, and Southwest. In New England there are state coordinators as well as region coordinators in Southeast and Pacific Northwest. Over the coming years, the Guild plans to establish additional regional staff positions around the country, funding permitting, to better promote excellent forestry and serve our members and partners.  Priority regions are the Southeast, Great Lakes, and Pacific Northwest.  .

 

Meetings and field tours often happen at the regional level and are listed on our Calendar of Events. Since excellent forestry is different in each ecoregion, the Guild’s guides to ecological forestry—syntheses of science and place-based experience—are broken out by region and forest type. As demonstrations of excellent forestry, the Guild has Model Forests across the country.

 



 
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Forest Wisdom Issue 15


Forest Wisdom #15 is focused on "ecosystem services", in other words the combined benefits people obtain from the natural world. These vital services include supporting functions such as nutrient cycling or soil formation; products such as fresh water and fuel; regulating services such as flood or climate regulation; and cultural resources such as recreational, educational, or aesthetic opportunities. Forest Wisdom 15 includes articles that address the value of forested watersheds, payments for forest carbon, shitake mushrooms as a non-timber forest product, and an assessment of the value of the ecosystem services provided by New Mexico's forests.