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Join Keeping Forests in shaping the future of Southern Forests
Working forests in the U.S. South sit at the intersection of economic productivity, community livelihoods, and long-term ecological resilience. As new pressures and opportunities converge — from shifting demand for forest products, to emerging ecosystem markets, to increased global attention — the next decade will determine if our forests' value is recognized, aligned, and amplified.
Since 2016, Keeping Forests has focused on strategies that address the systemic challenges facing Southern Forests. We've spent a decade evolving our understanding of where the highest leverage opportunities exist for multi-sector leadership to address those challenges.
Alignment has never mattered more than it does today. We'll share where, how, and why it matters to your mission.
This is not a progress update, a program launch, or a pitch. It is an invitation to align leadership, capital, and effort on the cross-cutting issues that will determine whether we keep our forests as forests.
How Southern Forest Products are positioned, differentiated, and valued — and what is required to strengthen demand and market coherence
Where emerging ecosystem markets are becoming investable — and where coordination, governance, or infrastructure still limit scale
How narrative, visibility, and moments of global attention can be used deliberately to reinforce long-term market outcomes — rather than distract from them
Keeping Forests is a nonprofit organization working to strengthen the long-term value and resilience of Southern Forests.
Over the past decade, we’ve built and advanced the strategies, market mechanisms, and coordination required to change how Southern Forests are valued, supported, and sustained. We work with partners across landownership patterns, industries, conservation goals, and public sector mandates to scale forest value creation across a 13-state region spanning from Texas to Virginia.