Green Horizons

The Wildwood Resort in Steelville, Mo., will be the site of the 2009 NNFP national conference May 4-7. The conference, “Sustaining Rural Communities and Forests,” will gather practitioners from across the nation working to create sustainable jobs for rural communities in conservation and management of forests, as well as value-adding of sustainably produced forest products.

Topics to be covered will include:

• Forest Land Care
• Forest Cooperatives
• Stewardship Contracting and Forest Restoration
• Organic Wild Harvest and processing of NTFPs
• Sustainable Forestry and Carbon Credits
• FSC Group Certification and Green Building
• Web Marketing and the Green Consumer
• Funding and Community-Based Forestry
• National Policy to Sustain Communities and Forests
• And much, much more!

For more information, contact Scott Bagley at scott@nnfp.us or 740-593-8733. Or visit http://nnfp.us/Activities/AnnualMeeting.htm