Current Projects
More than a third of the 751 million acres of forestland in the United States is owned by families and individual in what we call “family forests”. These family forests provide important public benefits, including wood fiber, recreation opportunities, and various ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, watershed protection, and biodiversity conservation. America’s 10 million family forest owners are diverse and dynamic. They together shape the future of the nation’s forest, as well as the public benefits it provides. The goal of the FFRC is to conduct relevant research that helps understand the social and economic dimensions of family forestry, particularly the characteristics, attitudes and behavior of family forest owners, in order to promote sustainable forest management that meets the current and future needs of landowners, communities, and society.
