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North American Forest Foundation Helping kids become creates a healthier future.

Changing hearts and minds about wood, for good, by harvesting the next generation through education.

The carbon fiber used in high-end sports cars and race cars may soon get a boost from trees. Engineers at Washington Un...
10/16/2026

The carbon fiber used in high-end sports cars and race cars may soon get a boost from trees.

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a carbon fiber that utilizes lignin, a waste product of the paper and biorefining industries.

The process reduces the use of petroleum-based products, reduces costs, and cuts carbon emissions.

That sports car may still be unattainable, but it will be more sustainable.

See the link in the comments for the article in Matter.

Except for Smiley there in the center, these students from the Biltmore Forest School don't seem excited about their fie...
10/15/2026

Except for Smiley there in the center, these students from the Biltmore Forest School don't seem excited about their field trip to Coos Bay, Oregon. Perhaps they're simply tired. Travel from Asheville, North Carolina, to Oregon was not cushy in the early 1900s.

Photo from Carl Alwin Schenck's manuscript "The Dawn of Private Forestry in America, Recollections of a Forester Covering the Years 1895 to 1914." Schenck founded the Biltmore Forest School in 1898.

Photo courtesy of the Forest History Society.

10/14/2026

Like people, no two forests are alike. They come in many sizes and have multiple purposes and roles.

🌳Public forests: Our national and state parks are great examples. They're great for hiking, camping, canoeing, and other forms of recreation.

🌳Private forests: These are owned by families, individuals, and other non-government groups. They provide timber and other forest products, as well as space for education and recreation. They also provide wildlife habitat and promote biodiversity.

🌳Private industrial forests: These are the large tracts of land owned by companies where they farm trees, the way farmers grow corn and soybeans.

According to the U.S. Forest Service, over 90% of domestically produced forest products come from private forests.

10/13/2026

Fall is actually a misnomer. Leaves don't fall from trees.

The process is called abscission. Trees cut off leaves like a toxic relationship. Their winter survival depends upon it.

Removing their leaves conserves water and prevents damage from ice and snow. It also allows them to shed leaves damaged by insects or disease. They make a fresh start in spring.

Share more tree facts with kids. If you're a teacher or scout leader, click the link in the comments to request your free Truth About Trees Kit today!

10/12/2026

If you enjoy working with a team, but you're more interested in real falls than trust falls, you could be the perfect groundsman (or groundswoman).

Work outdoors, learn quickly, and make safety a priority. Real teamwork and minimizing risk are at the center of the job.

Video courtesy of ForestryWorks.

Do you dream of reducing your prep work time? Would you like your students to end up in fulfilling careers without colle...
10/11/2026

Do you dream of reducing your prep work time? Would you like your students to end up in fulfilling careers without college debt?

Our free Career Day presentation teaches students about the state of our forests and careers they may not know about. We do the work for you.

There are thousands of high-paying career paths in forestry and the forest products industry. Many don't require a four-year degree.

Your students need more options, and you deserve an hour to yourself.

Get 12 ready-made slides with 20 minutes of content. It's FREE.

Let's teach the next generation why healthy forests matter and how forestry careers shape the future.

Click the link in the comments now to get your free Career Day presentation and check one more thing off your to-do list.

10/11/2026

As forest product manufacturers, you're facing a double whammy: misconceptions about manufacturing and the sustainability of wood-based products.

As a result, it's becoming increasingly difficult to fill open positions.

Right now, you're not even an option for the students who could fill those jobs.

Together, we can change that.

The Truth About Trees teaching kit can turn students into informed advocates for hardwood products and introduce them to forestry careers they may not have considered.

Here's the math: 300 industry pros × $12/month can fund the kit for 75,000 students. That's 75,000 future consumers, allies, and employees who get it and carry that knowledge forward.

Educate your future customers and find your future employees for less than the cost of recruiting one employee. Join the Canopy Club now before this opportunity is gone.

Become one of the 300 today by joining the Canopy Club. Make a TREEmendous impact before time runs out!

Click the link in the comments to join today.👇

Our current power grid is woefully inadequate. Many U.S. transformers are nearing the end of their service life.A collab...
10/09/2026

Our current power grid is woefully inadequate. Many U.S. transformers are nearing the end of their service life.

A collaboration between researchers at Yale University, the University of Maryland, The University of Texas at Austin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the USDA Forest Products Laboratory, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has produced ODW (aka oil-impregnated densified wood).

The result is stronger transformer insulation with improved thermal conductivity and insulation properties.

Transformers utilizing the material would be less prone to failure and have longer lifespans. ODW manufacturing is scalable and isn't tied to just one wood species.

See the full article at Tech Xplore. The link is in the comments.

If anyone has ever told you to "go pound rocks," this isn't what they meant. They weren't telling you to be productive, ...
10/08/2026

If anyone has ever told you to "go pound rocks," this isn't what they meant. They weren't telling you to be productive, like these young men. They just wanted you to go away, preferably far away.

These members of the Civilian Conservation Corps were working on flood control along the Mad River at Campton Pond Forest Camp in New Hampshire in 1939.

Photo credit: Muir, B.W. Photo courtesy of the Forest History Society.

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