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The American Forest Foundation

The American Forest Foundation (AFF) chartered in 1982, to develop and administer programs that encourage the long-term stewardship of the environment and natural resources. The Foundation works for healthy forests, quality environmental education, and to help people make informed decisions about our communities and our world. AFF is a nonprofit educational foundation supported by grants and donations from individuals, foundations, government agencies and corporations.

The Foundation has two fundamental goals.

  • To ensure that America's family owned forests continue to provide clean water, fertile soil, quality recreation, homes for wildlife, and wood for products -- not just for this generation, but for all that will follow
  • To help young people learn the skills they will need to become responsible environmental decision makers.

In addition to Project Learning Tree® AFF sponsors The American Tree Farm System®.

The American Tree Farm System (ATFS) has promoted the sustainable management of forests through education and outreach to family forest owners for more than sixty years. Founded in 1941, the American Tree Farm System covers 27 million acres of privately owned forestland and has 65,000 certified Tree Farmer members who are committed to excellence in forest stewardship. Tree Farmers manage their forestlands for wood, water, wildlife and recreation with assistance from over 7,000 volunteer foresters.

Tree Farmers are joined in their commitment to excellence in forest stewardship. They seek to take the message of sustainable forestry to the nation's more than 9.9 million individuals and families who together own 337 million acres of forest, nearly half of all forested land in the U.S., almost 70 percent of it east of the 100th meridian.


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