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Directors Note - June 2025
Reminder: Our mailing address is PO Box 6058, Santa Fe, NM 87502
What does the Guild do? It’s a hard question to answer briefly. Like forest stewardship overall, ourwork incorporates many kinds of activities, all aimed at a healthy future for people and forests.
I just returned from the Future of the Forests Partnership Summit where conservation leaders gathered for creative responses— energizing even amid tremendous challenges.
Rethinking Red Pine: Forest Diversity and Resilience in the Great Lakes Region
Written by Christian Nelson
Planted en masse during the 1930s Great Depression era by Civilian Conservation Corps crews, and again in the 1960s by county and state foresters, red pine was the tree of choice for generating income on tax-forfeited farmland. Nearly 100 years after those first trees were planted in tidy, evenly spaced rows, and in the face of rapid climate change and shifting values, land managers across the region are reimagining what red pine forests can — and should — look like in the future.
The book was always meant to be cheerful. It’s about building a timber-frame house from our farm woodlot—a “worst first” house—and more broadly, about building with local wood as a way of advancing ecological forestry. Beautiful houses should come from beautiful forests: a hopeful message.
The Guild’s Membership and Policy Council (MPC) has completed this Position Statement with help from Guild staff. This full position statement follows our previously-shared summary of the same. Thank you for your patience, and all your support for forests and communities! As mentioned in the statement, reach out to your MPC anytime on this and other Guild policy and positions.
Thank you,
Your Membership and Policy Council
Upcoming Events
Lots coming up in the Guild this month—don’t forget to check out the Webinar Library to stay updated! It’s a great way to revisit past events, catch up on what you may have missed, or stay in the loop with all things Guild-related.
Check our full jobs page! There are regular updates on opportunities in support of healthy forests, communities, and ecosystems!
Our Supporters
The Guild depends on support from donors and members. Thank you for all you do to support our collective vision of ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestry.
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