Our Vision:
Evergreen seeks to be a valuable public education resource that advances the pursuit of healthy, productive, resilient forests. We give voice to the consistent forest practices, and forest policies that leave a legacy of growth for generations to come.
Our Mission:
Our mission is to advance public understanding and support for science-based forestry and forest policy by providing clear and concise facts and commentary. We endorse long term, active forest management for healthy forests and productive communities. Our approach is to engage opinion leaders, decision-makers, community leaders, and community members in the discussion and support of healthy, productive, resilient forests.
To this end we operate our website and publish Evergreen Magazine, a periodic journal with a 30+ year history of advocating science-based forest policy. We work to keep our members, students, elected officials, grass roots groups and the media abreast of issues and events that are impacting forestry, forest communities, and the forest products industry.
Evergreen works with a variety of partners to create communication and stewardship campaigns that connect, educate, and engage the public in a dialogue about the care and future of our public and private forest lands.
The Need:
Due to of current forest policies, practices, and historical decisions – our communities and forests face unstable economic, social, and environmental conditions.
Well-managed forests foster a steady state of desirable conditions that create a legacy of opportunity for current and future generations. Active forest care and management supports healthy forests, creates jobs, reduces wildfires, and stabilizes community partnerships and conditions.
Our Values:
McLeod and Douglas recorded their observations in daily journals that describe miles of sparse prairie burned clear of most vegetation, punctuated by scattered groves of trees - mostly oak with some conifer, more so on the eastern slopes of the Coast Range. There was no "sea of old growth" – or even second growth.
Global warming is real and urgent, and is primarily caused by the burning of carbon-based fuels
Now that Tom Vilsack is back in the driver's seat at the Department of Agriculture, it’s time for him to stroll over to the White House and have a heart-to-heart chat with President Biden about the West’s wildfire pandemic. Here’s how it might go:
We bring you this letter by rancher Dave Daley that tells of his harrowing experience last summer when the Bear Fire struck his property and destroyed his land and cattle. We ask you read this and remember just what is at stake each day our forests go unmanaged. This letter has been split into two parts
Your tax-deductible contribution allows us to continue providing science-based forestry information with the goal of ensuring healthy forests forever.
DONATE NOWsixty years ago today - March 1, 1961 – less than two months after his presidency began, John Fitzgerald Kennedy signed Executive Order 10924, creating the Peace Corps. In the ensuing years, more than 235,000 American volunteers have served in 141 countries around the world.
Tom Vilsack is back in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is almost a cult hero among midwestern farm, ethanol and biotech lobbies.
Why do those who purport to care so much about western Oregon's forests continue to ignore and/or deny such a vast storehouse of history – information that sheds an illuminating light on the past, to say nothing of the future?
A speech by Jim Petersen on the state of western watersheds.
Now DeLuca has immersed himself – and the College of Forestry he leads – in an eyebrow-raising proposal that could cost the forestry school dearly. At issue is the political fate of the Elliott State Forest, an enormously valuable natural asset...
Your tax-deductible contribution allows us to continue providing science-based forestry information with the goal of ensuring healthy forests forever.
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