Northeastern Area

To meet the requirements of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act, as amended by the 2008 Farm Bill (PL 110-246), State forestry agencies have each completed a Statewide Forest Resource Assessment and Strategy. These documents represent profound and dedicated efforts, in coordination with many partners, to examine the conditions, trends, and threats to forest resources; identify priorities within each state and across state boundaries; and outline strategies for addressing those threats and priorities. Focused across public and private forest land and from the urban to rural continuum, the results of their work provide a foundation for all-lands management in landscape conservation.

NAASF Forest Resource Planning Committee (FRPC)

The Forest Resource Planning Committee (FRPC) is a committee of the Northeastern Area Association of State Foresters (NAASF). It consists of the State forest resource planners and GIS professionals from each of the 20 States of the Northeast and Midwest.

FRPC encourages and supports State forest resource planning programs and works to strengthen skills in planning, resource, and policy analysis, while developing and maintaining a working relationship with the Northeastern Area Association of State Foresters, the Northeastern Area, and other organizations.

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• Considers all forest resources and their interrelationships on all forested lands, regardless of ownership.
• Uses an issue-driven, goal-oriented planning process.
• Involves stakeholders through effective public participation processes.
• Develops plan recommendations that are integral or complementary to other State resource plans and programs.
• Provides a budget framework for plan implementation.
• Provides State perspectives to Federal planning efforts.
• Technical training and program coordination carried out through the NAASF Forest Resource Planning Committee (FRPC)

For more information contact:
Sherri Wormstead
Sustainability and Planning Coordinator
swormstead@fs.fed.us or 603-868-7737