Highlighting Investments in Forests for Water Conservation through the Savannah River Clean Water Fund
Keeping Forests, through a partnership with the Georgia Forestry Foundation, recently released a short documentary to bring awareness to the importance of forests to drinking water quality and quantity while highlighting the Savannah River Clean Water Fund, a forests and water conservation success story.
‘The Forest Filter: A Vital Step to Clean Water’ to Highlight Ecosystem Services Marketplace
Savannah River Clean Water Fund is an ecosystem services project that includes portions of Georgia and South Carolina along the Savannah River. The program includes a broad group of stakeholders, including five drinking water utilities participating as buyers in efforts to sustain the local forests’ ability to provide water ecosystem service benefits for communities and companies operating in the Savannah River Watershed.
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.
Southern Group of State Foresters
SGSF’s 15 members within the southeastern United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands collectively provide leadership, coordination, expertise and resources to sustain the economic, environmental, health and societal benefits of Southern Forests.
