The Southern Center for Sustainable Forests provides innovative research and practical applications for enhancing sustainable forest management on industrial and nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) land in the South. The Center provides an umbrella for research activities ranging from sustainable production of wood fiber to extensive management of nonindustrial private forest land to the broad management of forested landscapes for non-market values.

The Southern Center is a cooperative organization with three institutions:

  • North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry
  • Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
  • North Carolina's Division of Forest Resources

    • About SCSF

    Submitted by mhof on Fri, 2005-10-14 06:25.

    The Southern Center for Sustainable Forests was established in 1997 by a Memorandum of Understanding among North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources.

    The Center was established to provide leadership for research, education, and extension to promote economically and ecologically sustainable management of forests in the South. Leadership for the Center is shared among the three codirectors from each organizing institution.

    The Center sponsors and performs projects that involve research, teaching, and outreach regarding the practice of sustainable forest management in the South.

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    Energy from Wood - Exploring the Issues and Impacts for North Carolina

    Submitted by barrynew on Wed, 2006-01-11 21:30.

    Energy from Wood: Exploring the issues and impacts for North Carolina
    March 13-14, 2006
    J. S. McKimmon Center
    North Carolina State University
    Raleigh, NC

    This conference will:
    § Present much of the known information about potential impacts and opportunities on North Carolina’s forests from a wood biomass economy,
    § Offer an opportunity for diverse stakeholders to explore issues surrounding woody biomass, and
    § Prepare stakeholders for the future policy discussions surrounding the use of woody biomass for energy.

    Who Should Attend:
    The conference will be useful for policy makers, regulatory agency staff, industry (energy, foresters, forest landowners, manufacturing), scientists, environmental interests, and local or regional biomass energy users.

    Conference Goals
    § Review of the current opportunities and issues related to incorporating woody biomass in North Carolina’s pending Renewable Portfolio Standard
    § Learn from successful users and efforts underway across the nation to deploy woody biomass energy or technologies

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    Global Forest Sustainability and Certification course at NCSU

    Submitted by mhof on Fri, 2005-10-14 13:05. |

    Global Forest Sustainability and Certification course at NCSU
    NCSU course #for595g

    Course Description

    In the last decade, Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and forest certification have become the dominant paradigms that address forest management and protection in the world. Each of these subjects addresses economic, ecologic, and social components of forestry. Several international processes and accords address SFM in temperate and tropical forests. These generally include broad criteria that state principles for forest management, and indicators that can be used to measure and track the status of the world’s forests at the national, or perhaps forest management unit, level. Forest certification focuses on measuring forest management, environmental protection, and social benefits from forest ownership and forest practices at the forest management unit or stand level. These new public processes and private forest certification systems all work within the existing context of national, state, or province forestry laws and agencies. The interaction of these public and private policies for forestry and other resources determine the management and protection of forests.

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