March is Prescribed Fire Awareness Month in South Carolina. Learn about the benefits of prescribed burning in this short PSA.

#GoodFire #PrescribedFire #KeepingForests #ForestProud #PrescribedBurn #RXFire

With a career lasting over forty years, Mr. Alton Perry has been #empowering landowners for quite some time. Spending the majority of his life in eastern North Carolina, Perry now serves as Director for Roanoke Cooperative Sustainable Forestry and Land Retention Program.

Conserving forested watersheds is a vital step towards securing a sustainable future.

Let's prioritize #KeepingForests to ensure pure water and economic vitality for years to come #SourceWaterProtectionWeek #ProtecttheSource

🎥Watch 'The Forest Filter': keepingforests.org/documentary

Today, on #EndangeredSpeciesDay , we recognize that Southern forests provide a fertile home for a wide variety of species including the Eastern Indigo Snake, the Gopher Tortoise, and \other endangered species.

To learn more about endangered species, visit endangered.org

Sustainable timber management means landowners plant, grow, harvest… and repeat! Forests provide material for a variety of everyday products while also providing a bounty of healthy foods via non-timber forest products. #NationalAgDay #keepingforests #forestproud

It's Prescribed Fire Awareness Month in South Carolina! Check out this graphic, courtesy of our friends at the Florida Division of Forestry, on the anatomy of a prescribed burn. #GoodFire #PrescribedFire #KeepingForests #ForestProud #PrescribedBurn #RXFire

To save a forest, use it! No need to feel guilty when using paper or wood-based products because choosing wood keeps southern forests strong and healthy.

#KeepingForests #SouthernForests #MSforestry
#GoodsFromTheWoods#AskforWood
#ForestFriday #WoodIsGood

#Regenerative #ForestProducts

Hear this perspective from Laura Calandrella, Executive Director of Keeping Forests, introducing us to the systems mapping process and how it applies to the greater Keeping Forests strategy.

To watch the full video and blog: bit.ly/489itSe

The August 2023 Edition of 'For Our Forests' just dropped 🔥

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“We have to work together to make sure there is a sustainable wood market. This will help our private landowners stay in business and keep forestland as forestland.”

See Dept. of Agriculture Under Secretary Wilkes' interview from Southern Group of State Foresters Annual Conference here...

USDA Forest Service

Enjoying a field trip with Keeping Forests to the Saluda river #watershed , where members of Upstate Forever & South Carolina Forestry Commission are discussing watershed protection & some local wildlife came closer to listen.

#KeepingForests , with partner South Carolina Forestry Commission, recently hosted Emerging Markets workstream participants to launch a new community-based social marketing campaign in South Carolina’s upstate.

To learn more about this projects, visit our website: bit.ly/3akEBj9

#DYK that a benefit of prescribed fire is aesthetic enhancement? The open, park-like stand of pine that many people find attractive can best be maintained with the use of prescribed fire. #GoodFire #PrescribedFire #KeepingForests #ForestProud #PrescribedBurn #RXFire

Living a more sustainable lifestyle is hard, and it can get confusing as to which choices are the best for our families and the environment. But there’s one choice you can confidently make every time: goods that come from the woods. #KeepingForests #SouthernForests #AskforWood

#DYK prescribed burning is an ancient practice, notably used by Native Americans for crop management, insect and pest control and hunting habitat improvement, among other purposes? #GoodFire #PrescribedFire #KeepingForests #ForestProud #PrescribedBurn #RXFire

A benefit of prescribed fire is wildfire hazard reduction. By removing some of the fuel (leaves, pine needles and twigs) under controlled conditions, the chances of a damaging wildfire are greatly reduced. #GoodFire #PrescribedFire #KeepingForests #ForestProud #PrescribedBurn

Meet the #KeepingForests Executive Committee -

They serve to strengthen the strategic direction of KF and ensure progress toward our goal of creating the enabling conditions needed to maintain 245 million acres of Southern forests by 2060.

Learn more: bit.ly/3akEBj9

Want to know where prescribed burns are being conducted across South Carolina? Check the SC Forestry Commission’s prescribed burn activity map to stay up to date. l8r.it/TnDj

#GoodFire #PrescribedFire #KeepingForests #forestproud #prescribedburn #RXFire

🌲 Southern forests are some of the planet’s hardest workers. They sustain our economy and quality of life. They keep our air and water pure. They offer us space to delight in nature. Because we all depend on forests, everyone must ensure they prosper. #NYClimateWeek