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After the Recession: Finding Our Way Out of the Woods

Scott Jones, Forest Landowner Association CEO, will be a guest speaker at this year's annual Southeastern SAF Meeting. He will be presenting perspectives on the Future of Forestry Funds in the Farm Bill. Forest markets, economics, taxation and policy will be topics of the 2012 Southeastern SAF Meeting entitled, "After the Recession: Finding Our Way Out of the Woods," to be held February 19-21, 2012 at Oceanside Inn and Suites on Georgia's Jekyll Island.

Forest landowners, SAF members, other forestry professionals and anyone interested in today's top forestry issues are invited to attend. Seven hours of Continuing Forestry Education credits are available. Read More »

The State of the Association 

 As the second session of the 112th Congress commenced in mid-January, FLA was walking the halls of Congress, meeting with House and Senate leadership committee staff. It remains to be seen if lawmakers can make progress towards sending legislation to the President for signature during what is expected to be months of political posturing leading up... Read More »

 

Hearing Voices at FLA

 We started out the new year with our Landowner to Landowner question: "With continued economic turmoil and political uncertainty in 2012, what specific changes are you considering in your forest management plans?" Immediatley, hundreds of responses from our members... Read More »

 

Regional Meetings Update 

We will be hosting two regional meetings in March. The first meeting will be in Augusta, Georgia on March 13 and the second in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on March 20th... Read More »

 

FLA is now on Twitter 

In our efforts to stay connected with you, we are now bringing you the most up to date information via our live twitter feed... Read More »

 

Forest Roads Update and the Silvicultural Exemption

On December 17, Congress passed the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, funding nine federal agencies for the 2012 fiscal year. The bill includes language that stays NPDES permitting for silvicultural activities until October 1, 2012.

This represents a huge advancement in the forestry community efforts to seek a permanent reversal of this misguided decision from the legislative perspective. On the second front of the Supreme Court challenge, progress was made on December 17 when the Supreme Court officially asked the Solicitor General to explain the government’s position...  Read More »

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