Current Policy Efforts

• Climate Change
  The Guild advocates for the inclusion of excellent forestry in carbon cap and trade systems. For more information, click here.
  
  
• Working Forest Conservation Easements
  The Guild advocates for conservation easements that protect the working forest as well as its ecological and social values. For more information, click here.
  
  
• Wildfire and Poverty
  Through a partnership with researchers at the University of Oregon, the Guild is advocating for a more just distribution of wildfire preparation funds. For more information, click here. The Guild has testified before Congress about the links between wildfire and poverty. For more information, click here.
  
  
• Migrant Forest Workers
  The Guild endeavors to improve policies affecting the conditions of migrant forest workers. For more information, click here.
  
  
• Collaborative Restoration
  The Guild works as a core member of the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition to find policy solutions to the ecological and economic challenges faced by many forest-dependent communities. The Guild has testified before Congress about national legislation to promote collaborative restoration.
  
  
• Community-Scale, Integrated Biomass Utilization
  As part of the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition the Forest Guild helped to draft an issue paper on woody biomass, which includes a vision for woody biomass utilization that helps catalyze rural development and forest restoration. The issue paper also present a policy strategy to support commuinity-scale, integrated woody biomass utilization. 

Policy Statements

• Climate Change, 2008
  
• Forester Licensing, 2003
• State-Level Forest Practices Regulations, 2002
• Transgenic Trees, 2002
• Silviculture for Natural Forests, 1999

Position Statements

• Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Forests, 2009
  Statement to New Mexico's Environmental Improvement Board on Climate Change, 2009
  
• Vermont’s Use Value Appraisal Program, 2007
• Oregon Measure 37,  2007
• Roadless Area Conservation Rule for National Forests, 2003
• Federal Environmental Rollbacks - Environmental Policy on the National Forests: Change the Outcomes, not the Process, 2003
• Liquidation Harvesting (Maine), 2003
• Regarding “Citizen’s Call for Ecological Forest Restoration: Forest Restoration Principles and Criteria”, 2003
• High-Yield Production Forestry, 2000

Congressional Testimony

The Guild provides statements and testimony on national legislation and policies related to forest and the communities that depend on them. The Guild and its members are also active on policy issues at state and local level.

• Forest Landscape Restoration Act, April 1, 2008. Testimony to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
• Oversight Wildfire Preparedness, June 19, 2007. Testimony to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, House Committee on Natural Resources.
• Forest Emergency Recovery Research Act, November 10, 2005. Statement for the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, House Committee on Natural Resources.
• Regarding the Restoration of Forests After Catastrophic Fire, July 15, 2004. Statement for the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, House Committee on Natural Resources.
• Regarding the Implementation of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and Community Wildfire Protection Plans, June 28, 2004. Statement for the Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
• Jobs and Sustainable Forestry, February 4, 2004. Testimony to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, House Committee on Natural Resources.
• Implementation of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, December 15, 2003. Testimony to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, House Committee on Natural Resources.
• Concerns about the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, July 22, 2003. Testimony to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.