The National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry (NCSSF) is a results oriented program that has a mandate to provide practical information and approaches that serve the needs of forest managers, practitioners and policymakers. The program’s mission is to improve the scientific basis for the development, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable forestry in the United States. NCSSF is currently focused on Montreal Process Criteria 1: Conservation of biological diversity. The program emphasis is on developing the knowledge and tools most directly relevant to improving sustainable forestry practices on-the-ground over the next five years. The scope of our current mandate includes examining the needs for managed forestlands, industrial and non-industrial, in the continental United States.
NCSSF Research Project C5, An Assessment of Public Knowledge, Values, and Attitudes toward Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry
Alan Bright, Holly Stinchfield, July 2005NCSSF Research Project C11, Changing Forestland Ownership Patterns in the Northern Forest and Implications for Biodiversity
John M. Hagan, July 2005Nontimber Forest Products - Curriculum Development Project
Kathryn A. Lynch, June 2005Illuminating Choice in Sustainable Forest Management: CRAFT A Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools
Steven P. Norman, Sandra L. Jacobson, Timothy C. Haas, March 2005Science, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Forestry
National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry, January 2005Decision Support Systems For Forest Biodiversity: Evaluation Of Current Systems And Future Needs
Sean N. Gordon, K. Norman Johnson, Keith M. Reynolds, May 2004User Needs Summary Report
National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry, The National Forest Foundation , September 2003A8: Biodiversity Indicators For Sustainable Forestry
Whitman,Andrew A. , John M. Hagan, July 2003