In NM, we work with youth, communities, and businesses to foster sustainable and ecologically responsible use, restoration, and conservation of NM forests. Our major programs include: YCC natural resource education work program. Forest worker safety certification. Forest restoration that improves forest health and protects forest based resources such as watersheds, wildlife habitat, native species biodiversity, and recreation. Technical assistance for forest-based communities and businesses, and community-based wood energy. Wildfire risk reduction.Nationally, with 850 members across the country, we are highly respected for our overriding commitment to the long-term health of forest ecosystems through sustainable forest management practices. Our national programs include: Groundbreaking work on developing sustainable biomass harvesting and retention guidelines. Community-based wood energy. Climate change and forest carbon issues. Ecologically based conservation easements. Forested watersheds for clean drinking water. Public policy analysis and applied research.
The Forest Stewards Guild practices and promotes ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestryas a means of sustaining the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent upon them. The Guild engages in education, training, policy analysis, research, and advocacy to foster excellence in stewardship, support practicing foresters and allied professionals, and engage a broader community in the challenges of forest conservation and management. The Guild’s Southwest Region supports the organization’s goal of practicing and promoting excellence in stewardship by building a sustainable forest-based economy, developing future forestry leaders, practicing ecological forest restoration, and training and educating forest workers and landowners.
Each year the Guild provides youth training and an introduction to natural resource management through the successful Youth Conservation Corps program. This program employs high school aged youth for hand-on work and learning opportunities on National Forests in New Mexico.
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