Who We Work With

Sustainable Forestry
http://www.privatelandownernetwork.org/
The Private Landowner Network is designed to assist and facilitate voluntary private land conservation initiatives. The website features conservation tools and programs for the benefit of private landowners. PLN provides an effective link to public conservation agencies through featured partnership programs, along with a national referral network of preferred service providers.

http://www.foreststewardsguild.org/
Forest Guild promotes ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestry as a means of sustaining the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent upon them. The Forest Guild includes field foresters and associated land stewards whose work is broadly acknowledged as providing tangible examples of sustainable forestry.

http://www.pioneerforest.com/PF_Home.html
Pioneer Forest is a large, privately-owned oak-hickory forest located in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks. This 160,000-acre commercial forest has demonstrated over the last 50 years that silviculture can simultaneously be an economic, biological, and recreational success. Pioneer Forest is managed to produce goods and services for the public without destroying that forest in the process. Pioneer offers initial consultations and contracting for forest management on your land if you are located in the Ozark region of Missouri.

Legal
http://www.southernenvironment.org/
Southern Environmental Law Center. SELC is the leading environmental organization dedicated solely to protecting the natural resources of the South. Founded in 1986, SELC has grown into a multi-faceted organization that is leading broad-based conservation initiatives to strengthen environmental protection laws and policies. Through direct legal action, policy reform, public education and partnerships with more than 100 other groups, SELC is playing a major role in setting the environmental future of the South.

http://www.wflc.org/
Washington Forest Law Center is a nonprofit corporation providing
legal services for forest cases of statewide significance and specializes in cases involving timber harvest and public resource issues on state and private lands. The Washington Forest Law Center was founded in 1996. The Center is a 501(c)(3) public interest law firm that frequently co-counsels cases of state law with the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, a national public interest environmental law firm.

http://www.wildlaw.org/
Wildlaw defends the environmental integrity of human and natural communities through education, administrative actions and litigation.  For every case that sets a national precedent, there are a thousand special places that need enforcement of the precedent.  WildLaw strategically builds legal capacity for the people defending those places.

Education, Universities
http://lal.sewanee.edu/
Landscape Analysis Lab, University of the South. An interdisciplinary group of faculty members collaborating to study land use changes on the Southern Cumberland Plateau. The Lab uses GIS technology to promote its twin goals of environmental education and conservation science. An objective is to monitor the pulse of the Plateau and make findings available to the public through this website.

Environmental and Conservation Organizations
http://www.appvoices.org/
Appalachian Voices is committed to protecting and restoring the ecological integrity, economic vitality, and cultural heritage of the central and southern Appalachians.

http://www.dogwoodalliance.org/
Dogwood Alliance is a growing regional network, comprised of 70 grassroots organizations in 17 states and concerned citizens from across the nation. We share a mission of protecting Southern forests and communities by engendering broad-based, diverse support for ending unsustainable industrial forest practices.

http://www.wildcalifornia.org/
Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) was formed by community activists more than 26 years ago, and works to protect and restore ancient forests, watersheds, coastal estuaries, and native species throughout Northwest California. EPIC uses an integrated, science-based approach, combining public education, citizen advocacy, and strategic litigation.

http://www.heartwood.org
Heartwood is a cooperative network of grassroots organizations dedicated to the health and well being of the heartland hardwood forest and its interdependent plant and animal communities.

http://www.nrdc.org/
Natural Resource Defense Council. NRDC uses law, science and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

http://www.pacrivers.org/
Pacific Rivers Council (PRC) is one of the most influential river conservation organizations in the United States. Our mission is to protect and restore rivers, their watersheds, and native aquatic species. For over 15 years, PRC has promoted a whole watershed approach to aquatic conservation based on sound science.

http://www.socm.org/
Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM) is a non-profit Tennessee grassroots citizen's organization working for environmental, social, and economic justice, in areas such as forestry, strip mining, toxic issues, tax reform, dismantling racism, and other issues on a local level.

http://www.southernsustainableforests.org/
Southern Forests Network is a community of people throughout the South who are working to preserve private forestlands & sustainable, locally-owned forest economies. SFN is comprised of nonprofit organizations, government agencies, forest-based businesses, loggers, forestry consultants, landowners, and others.

http://www.virginiaforestwatch.org/home.html
Virginia Forest Watch (VAFW) is a grass-roots based coalition of individuals and environmental groups organizing throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Our mission is "to maintain and restore the natural ecology and biodiversity of woodlands across Virginia through education and citizen participation."

http://www.wilderness.org
Wilderness Society brings scientific expertise, analysis and bold advocacy at the highest levels to save, protect and restore America's wilderness areas.