Friends of the Forest Service
Bringing people together to find common groundWelcome!
We are a home for cross-sector collaboration and partnership for the future of forest stewardship and the U.S. Forest Service.
The U.S. Forest Service and its partners are the front lines of stewardship of America’s forests, waters and grasslands. These are lands that shape our environment, economies, and ways of life, but our forests and the communities that surround them are under increasing strain.
The future of forest stewardship depends on shared responsibility: the Forest Service can’t do it alone. Friends of the Forest Service is working with a broad, bipartisan network of partners to build the relationships, tools and support needed for long-term forest stewardship and a stronger, more effective Forest Service. By bringing people together to learn from what’s working and solve for what isn’t, Friends of the Forest Service is translating common ground across our community into actionable solutions defined by collaboration, trust, and shared stewardship.
We are not going back to what came before: we are building a shared vision for the future of the Forest Service and our community of forest stewards and partners.
How we work
Friends of the Forest Service functions as a bipartisan, cross-sector network that brings people together to find common ground and translate shared vision into actionable solutions. This network generates key information about what is needed to support and empower forest stewardship and improve the effectiveness of the U.S. Forest Service and its partners.
We enable collaborative problem-solving, which informs actionable recommendations and ready-to-deploy tools and solutions that we provide to agency leadership, implementing partners, and policy makers.
Our change begins with honest conversations that surface real problems and build trust across differences; it gains traction when leaders identify practical, mutually beneficial solutions; and it becomes durable when those ideas are tested, refined, and carried forward by a network that stays engaged long after a single meeting or report.
What we do
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This is a pivotal moment.
Coordination, trust-building, and shared leadership can have an outsized impact. If we come together as partners and intergovernmental leaders to identify and organize around what we agree on, we can create a shared vision for the future and translate that vision into practical action.
