Agencies
Associations/Organizations
Companies

Forest Service - mission to achieve quality land management under the sustainable multiple-use concept to meet the diverse needs of the people.

United Nations FAO Forestry Department - ensures the development of policies, strategies and guildelines and provides advisory and technical services to FAO members.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - the principal federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats.

Alabama Forestry Commission - protects state forests, services and helps landowners to carry out responsible forest management on their property, and educates the general public about the value of forests.

Alaska Forest Association - a non-profit organization representing nearly 300 companies in the Alaska forest products industry.

American Forests - the nation's oldest nonprofit citizens conservation organization, founded in 1875.

American Forest and Paper Association - national trade association of the forest, paper and wood products industry.

American Wood Preservers Institute - the national industry trade association representing the pressure-treated wood industry throughout the United States.

APA: The Engineered Wood Association - source for engineered wood information.

Association for Temperate Agroforestry - a private, nonprofit organization to ensure that intensive land management systems optimize the benefits from biological interactions created when trees and/or shrubs are deliberately combined with crops and/or animals.

California Christmas Tree Association

California Foresty Association - forest professionals committed to the protection of our natural resources, environmentally sound policies, sustainable use of renewable resources and responsible forestry.

Canadian Pulp & Paper Association - the voice of forest products companies across Canada.

Canadian Wood Council - has served the wood products industry for 40 years.

Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau - non-profit industry association that represents Certi-label brand product manufacturing members.

Forest Products Society - an international not-for-profit technical association that is a world leader in technical information transfer to further beneficial use of wood and fiber resources.

Hardwood Information Center - sponsored by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association.

Institute of Paper Science & Technology, Inc.

International Society of Arboriculture - has served the tree care industry for 70 years as a scientific and educational organization.

International Society of Tropical Foresters - non-profit organization formed in response to worldwide concern for the fate of tropical and subtropical forests.

International Tropical Timber Organization - created by treaty in 1983, and headquartered in Yokohuma, Japan, it's mission is to provide an effective framework for consultation among producer and consumer member countries on all aspects of the world timber economy within its mandate.

International Wood Products Association - the only international trade association in the United States representing companies that handle imported wood products.

Louisiana-Mississippi Christmas Tree Association - provides production, research and promotional information to Christmas tree growers in Louisiana and Mississippi. Site also includes a real tree locator for the two states.

Maine Wood Products Association - represents hundreds of Maine-based companies manufacturing quality wood products.

Mississippi Forestry Association - organized in 1938 as a private non-profit organization representing a broad range of members such as timberland owners, professional foresters, loggers, forest product companies, wood suppliers and vendors who serve the industry.

Missouri Forestry Association - organized in 1938 as a private non-profit organization representing a broad range of members such as timberland owners, professional foresters, loggers, forest product companies, wood suppliers and vendors who serve the industry.

National Arbor Day Foundation - encourages three planting and environmental stewardship.

National Association of State Foresters - a non-profit organization that represents the directors of the state forestry agencies from all the 50 states, seven U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.

National Christmas Tree Association - includes a guide to Christmas tree farms and retail lots.

National Hardwood Lumber Association - a non-profit trade association headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, made up of over 1,700 member firms who produce, sell and use hardwood lumber.

National Wood Flooring Association - includes information on maintenance.

New Hampshire Christmas Tree Promotion Board - promotes and supports the New Hampshire Christmas tree products industry through implementation of effective programs and activities to enhance the awareness of the industry.

New Hampshire-Vermont Christmas Tree Association - its members have produced and sold high quality Christmas tree, wreaths and related products since 1956.

North American Wholesale Lumber Association - an international trade association of over 500 leading wholesalers and manufacturers throughout the United States and Canada.

North Carolina Christmas Tree Association - mission to promote "real" Christmas trees through marketing and education.

Northeastern Retail Lumber Association

Northwest Forestry Association - strives to provide a positive operating environment for the forest products community by representing companies on issues affecting both public and private.

Northwest Wood Products Association - an association of the secondary wood products manufacturers that helps firms grow and be more profitable.

Pinchot Institute for Conservation - an independent, non-profit organization committed to leadership in conservation, thought, policy and action with a mission to advance the conservation of natural resources throughout the world.

Society of American Foresters - the national scientific and educational organization representing the forestry profession in the United States.

Southern Forest Products Association - mission to develop, maintain and expand demand for Southern Pine Lumber products.

Southern Lumber Exporters Association, Inc. - lumber exporters specializing in Southern pine lumber.

Southern Pine Council - information on southern pine and the association, and technical and educational services.

Trees for Life - empowers people by demonstrating that in helping each other, we can unleash extraordinary power that impacts our lives, which the organization accomplishes by helping people plant fruit trees in developing countries.

Virginia Christmas Tree Growers Association

Washington Forest Protection Association - members include large and small companies, families and individual members who own and manage about 4.5 million acres of forests, which is close to two-thirds of the private commercial forest land in Washington state.

Western Forestry and Conservation Association - offers high quality, continuing education workshops and seminars for professional foresters throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Northern California and British Columbia.

Western Red Cedar Lumber Association - mission to produce quality Western Red Cedar lumber products and support them with technical information, education and promotion.

Western Wood Preservers Institute - serves the interests of the treating industry and users of treated wood products in western North America.

Western Wood Products Association - provides competitive services to western lumber mills.

Wood Moulding and Millwork Producers Association

Wood Truss Council of America - the only national trade association representing structural wood component manufacturers.

Boise Cascade Corporation - an integrated forest products company that responsibly manages 2.4 million acres of forestland to support its manufacturing operations.

Georgia-Pacific Corporation - one of the world's leading forest product companies.

International Paper

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation - a major manufacturer of building materials, industrial wood products and pulp.

Pacific Lumber Company - has been growing trees, making wood products, and employing people in Northern California since 1869.

Plum Creek Timber Company, L.P. - one of the largest private timberland owners in the United States and maker of value-added forest products for a variety of specialty markets.

Potlatch Corporation - a forest products company with more than 1.5 million acres of timberlands.

Weyerhaeuser Company - forest products company with pulp, paper, packaging, recycling, timberlands and wood products business.