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The future grows in Southern forests

The U.S. South is home to one of the world's largest working forest landscapes. As the region rapidly expands, Keeping Forests is creating the economic conditions necessary to ensure their future.
Our Approach
Southern forests stay forests when they are recognized and rewarded for the value they provide.

Our goal is to see that value reflected in the market conditions and capital investments that shape the region.

THE SOUTHERN FOREST REGION

The most productive working forest region in the world is under pressure

Estimates project that the U.S. South could lose 23 million acres of forestland by 2060. That's enough forest to fill 19 Grand Canyons.

As those forests disappear, so too could many of the conditions that have helped make the region one of the fastest-growing and most economically dynamic parts of the country.

Keeping Forests is bringing forest economy solutions into conversations where decisions are made about development, infrastructure, energy, and investment that will increasingly influence the future of the landscape.

WHY A REGIONAL APPROACH MATTERS →
Our Work
Strengthening the Southern forest system

Our three strategies connect the market forces that determine how Southern forests are valued and sustained.

DEMAND SIGNALS
Differentiate

Build market demand and competitive advantage for Southern forest products

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CAPITAL FLOWS
Align Investment

Connect capital to the regional forest conditions economic growth depends on

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SYSTEM VISIBILITY
Position Value

Shift how Southern forests are recognized in the marketplace

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About Keeping Forests

Working at the scale of the U.S. South

Keeping Forests builds the market conditions that keep Southern working forests economically viable. Since 2016, we have worked across 13 states with 100+ partners to develop cross-sector strategies that no single organization could create or execute alone. Collaboration is how we identify what matters and prove what works.

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Moving Forest Markets Forward

What a decade in Southern forest markets taught us about demand, investment, and what keeps forests as forests
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