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Community-based
forestry centers The AFRC is a program of the National Network of Forest Practitioners (NNFP) which, through the National Community Forestry Center, has established a total of four regional forestry centers in the USA. In
June 2000, the NNFP launched the National Community Forestry Center
(NCFC), a groundbreaking effort aimed at improving the access of
people in rural, forest-based communities to research and researchers,
to build their research capacity, and to involve them in the research
process. The NCFC is a decentralized network of four regional centers in the Southwest, Southeast, Pacific West, and the Northeast. Each center operates according to the advice of a regional advisory council based upon a shared set of principles and operating rules. The NNFP, through the work of a national director and a national advisory council, coordinates the work of all four regional centers, offering opportunities for exchanging learning and resources across the country. The NCFC¹s national director ensures that knowledge, skills, and resources are shared among the regional centers. The Pacific West Community Forestry Center (Northern California, Oregon and Washington) Jonathan Kusel Forest Community Research PO Box 11 Taylorsville, CA 95983 530-284-1022 pwcfcinfo@fcresearch.org http://www.sierrainstitute.us/PWCFC/index.html
Southwest
Community Forestry Research Center
National Community Forestry Center, Northern Forest Region (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Central and Eastern New York) Shanna Ratner or Debra Mason Yellow Wood Associates, Inc. 228 North Main Street St. Albans, VT 05478 802-524-6141 yellowwood@yellowwood.org www.ncfcnfr.net
The Appalachian Forest Resource Center (Pennsylvania south to northern Georgia, includes the entire Appalachian region) Dennis Hosack Director, Conservation-Based Development Rural Action, Inc PO Box 157 Trimble, Ohio 45782 Phone 866-767-4938 dennis@ruralaction.org www.appalachianforest.org
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The National Network of Forest Practitioners is a grassroots alliance of rural people who are striving to build a forest economy that is ecologically sound and socially just. As one of the leading community forestry organizations in the United States, the NNFP provides information and technical assistance, a forum for networking and organizing, and a meaningful role in national discussions about forests and rural communities. |
