Unlocking the power of America's family forests to fight climate change

We empower family forest owners to improve forest health and help the planet.

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Together, we’re addressing our most pressing conservation challenges.

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The potential in America’s family-owned forests has largely been undervalued.

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The American Forest Foundation is an ambitious conservation organization.

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Our Mission

The mission of the American Forest Foundation is to deliver meaningful conservation impact through the empowerment of family forest owners. Working together, we strive to tackle climate change and positively impact the health of America's family forests, our communities and the planet.

How We Do It

Partnerships

Working together, we’re tackling our most pressing conservation issues.

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Tools & Support for Landowners

We’re connecting family forest owners to the resources they need.

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Advocacy

Government actions can support both landowners and conservation.

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Philanthropy & Giving

Your support helps empower America’s family forest owners.

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From the Family Forest Blog

October 15, 2024

American Forest Foundation to Launch First U.S. Nature-Based Carbon Credit Auction in Early 2025

The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction — the first of its kind for a U.S. nature-based carbon project — will offer buyers a transparent and streamlined way to secure high-quality carbon credits while supporting rural communities and family forest owners.

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Forest With Sunlight

October 15, 2024

A New Way to Buy Carbon Credits: The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction

We believe there is a better way to buy carbon credits – a way to create contracts which more directly tie buyers and landowners to one another as true partners in a great enterprise. A way which reduces the friction, opacity and transaction costs of the current market. 

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September 19, 2024

Family Forest Owners Are in the Climate Fight. Now We Need You to Join Us.

Together, all of us FFCP landowners from the woodlands of the Northeast to the pasturelands of Georgia are making an impact. Together, every tree we nurture is making a difference for climate change.

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Forest Canopy with Sunlight Streaming Through

September 16, 2024

Early Investment is the Key to Carbon Market Success

AFF is exploring a new method of upfront investment that will offer corporations lower prices, more insight into their purchase, and a pathway to make a truly transformative investment. 

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Person looking out on a snowy forest

September 5, 2024

Greenfreezing and How We Begin to Thaw

Far more harmful than greenhushing, greenfreezing is when a company significantly slows or halts their climate action efforts or net zero strategies.

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August 14, 2024

Statement: USDA’s Advisory Council to Support Market Transparency and Credibility

"USDA’s creation of this council is a major step in creating the enabling conditions needed to build and scale a market that works for people and the planet."

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Careers

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