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.

Is your forest management enhancing C sequestration functions? Assessment methodologies available to forest managers
Daniel Markewitz, June 2006

NCSSF Research Project C2: Existing and Potential Incentives for Practicing Sustainable Forestry on Non-industrial Private Forest Lands
John Greene, October 2005

Workshop on old growth in the Pacific Northwest: Reframing "the problem" of old-growth: emerging social and ecological views
Thomas A. Spies, September 2005

NCSSF Research Project A5E Assessing the Scientific Basis for Standards/Practices at Multiple Spatial Scales - East
Craig Loehle, Paul Van Deusen, September 2005

NCSSF Research Project C.1 Templates for Forest Sustainability on Intensively Managed Private Forests
Kevin W. Zobrist, July 2005

Guidelines for Participatory Biodiversity - Inventory and Monitoring of Sustainable Forest Management
David Pilz, June 2005

Illuminating Choice in Sustainable Forest Management: CRAFT A Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools
Steven P. Norman, Sandra L. Jacobson, Timothy C. Haas, March 2005

Land use history impacts on biodiversity—Implications for management strategies
Gary Paul Nabhan, Marcelle Coder, Susan J. Smith, et al., February 2005

Global Markets Forum
National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry, February 2005

Reconciling the Effects of Historic Land Use and Disturbance on Conseravation of Biodiversity in Managed Forests in the Northeastern United States
Lauren F. Howard, John A. Litvaitis, Thomas D. Lee, et al., February 2005

Linking Topography, Hydrology, and Biodiversity to Understand Terrestrial Impacts on Aquatic Systems
Michael Huston, Enrique Gomezdelcampo, Rachel Sewell Nesteruk, January 2005

Project B1.2 Land Use History of Longleaf Pine Ecosystems: Case Studies in the Retention and Management of Forested Lands
Josh McDaniel, June 2004

Final Report Nontimber Forest Products Management Impacts on Biodiversity
Rebecca J. McLain, Kathryn A. Lynch, Eric T. Jones, January 2004

Second Annual Symposium: "Fire, Forest Health and Biodiversity"
National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry , June 2003

Science Agenda for Addressing Invasive Species in Sustainable Forestry
National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry, April 2003

Biodiversity and Sustainable Forestry: State of the Science Review 2002
Toral Patel-Weynand, December 2002

Survey the Lessons Learned About Managing Forests for Biodiversity and Sustainability Based on Practical Experiences
Steven R Radosevich, January 2002