Communities Committee

What are Community Forests? Background information on community-based forestry	Community Forest News News articles on community forests and timberlands	Community-Owned Forests Resources Reports on community-owned forests
Forest Planning and Management Handbooks and manuals on forest management issues	Engaging the Community Resources  for successful community involvement	Community-Owned Forests Conference Presentations from conference held June 2005
Tribal Forestry Links and information on forests under tribal management	Timberland Ownership Resports on changes and trends in forest ownership	Working Forest Conservation Easements Information and reports

What is Community Forestry and Why Does It Matter?
National Community Forestry Center Northern Forest Region.  August, 2000
This essay defines what community forestry is in the United States and examines how it is being applied in communities around the country. A great introduction to community forestry.

Forest Communities, Community Forests: A collection of community forestry case studies
Rowman and Littlefield. 2003.

Community Forestry in the United States: Learning from the Past, Crafting the Future
Mark Baker and Jonathan Kusel.
An analytically rigorous and historically informed assessment of what has come to be called community forestry, examining the current state of community forestry through a grounded assessment of where it stands now and where it might go in the future.

Community-based Forest Management
World Rainforest Movement. October, 2002.
Offers an interesting perspective on community-based forestry worldwide, with short articles on community-managed forests around the world.