About Us
We represent people who have found common ground on forest-related solutions to climate change.
Founded in 2007, we are united by four core beliefs.
1
Climate change is real, and forests must be part of our nation's response.
2
Keeping forests as forests is the foundation to all forest-climate solutions. More than 30 million acres of U.S. forests are projected to be lost to development.
3
Forests can do even more to slow climate change if we provide the right science and financial incentives to help private forest owners and public land managers plant and re-plant forests, and manage with an eye to carbon.
4
Protecting forests from climate change is equally as important as trapping more carbon in forests. Many forest resources could be lost to the stresses of climate change, and cutting edge-science has showed that U.S. forests will lose their capacity to store carbon, and release lots of carbon already stored, if we don't help forests adapt.
— FCWG Steering Committee —
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