CONSERVATION

Sam Sherrill has written a book and put up a new website about harvesting urban timber. According to a US Forest Service study, more than 3 billion board feet worth of trees are landfilled in the US annually. That's equivalent to 30% of the total US production of hardwood. To read more about the Forest Service's findings visit UTILIZING MUNICIPAL TREES: IDEAS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

The Chickasaw Group of the Sierra Club works on local environmental issues, including Environmental Justice, Urban Sprawl and Air and Water Quality concerns.

Heartwood is an organization dedicated to protecting the ecological value of our National Forests that lie to the east of the Rocky Mountains.

In the East, National Forests provide some of the last best habitat for migratory songbirds and other forest dependent species surrounded by urban sprawl, farmland and biologically impoverished pulpwood plantations.

The Dogwood Alliance is a network of more than 70 organizations in 17 states working together to address concerns about the wellbeing of our native forests, particularly the hardwood forests of the South.

In many southern states, the increased demand for hardwood pulplogs has led to enormous clearcuts and the conversion of vast areas of diverse native forests in to short rotation pulpwood plantations.