The Green Space: Mental Health Benefits from Forests
According to polls, Americans have never been as anxious as they feel now. Anxiety and increased levels of stress can be attributed to a number of environmental factors; however, evidence suggests that time spent in forests can be a natural solution.
Communicating the Forest-Water Connection
It’s needed to grow the food we eat, to produce industrial products, and to maintain human hygiene – from taking showers to flushing toilets. In Texas, 2.3 billion gallons of water are used by Texans for domestic consumption, EVERY DAY. As the need for water increases, so does the cost to clean it. This is where forests can help.
How to Be a Friend of the Southern Forests
Keeping Forests boasts a diverse coalition of landowners, corporations, NGOs, and public institutions that convene to innovate and scale ideas to help us conserve Southern Forests – see how you can play a role.
Explore our Forest Values: Recreation
Southern working forests offer a vast range of recreational activities for people seeking respite from the stresses of urban life. Outdoor enthusiasts in the U.S. South spend over $320 billion annually on recreation, supporting over 2.7 million jobs.
Our Forest Values
Our Forest Values represent the broad and interwoven benefits created by working Southern Forests including carbon capture, fiber, water, biodiversity & habitat, recreation, forest economies, human health and heritage & culture.
COP27 – How Forests Are a Part of Solution to Climate Change
Nature-based solutions to climate action – and within that, working forests – continue to be a key part of the solution sets being discussed on this global stage. As the world continues to look to the forest for answers, public and private partnerships, like Keeping Forests, will continue to provide measurable conservation value.
2022 Annual Meeting
To everyone who attended Keeping Forests Annual Meeting in Mobile, thank you for making this event a success! Your collaboration, ideas, and resources have energized our efforts for 2023, and we are excited to see what we can accomplish together in the new year.
