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The
Timber & Forestry
Foundation

Promoting U.S. Timber and American Hardwoods

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The
Timber & Forestry
Foundation

What We're About

We believe U.S. timber and American hardwoods have a rising market challenge, but not an overwhelming one. We believe that with powerful promotional efforts, advocacy campaigns, and educational programs, the industry can thrive like never before.

We believe the timber and hardwood industries have a great story to tell about the sustainability of this natural resource, and the durability and beauty of the products we create. We believe in the environmental and health benefits of using hardwoods in design.

The Timber & Forestry Foundation (TFF) promotes the sustainable U.S. timber and American hardwoods industries, representing U.S.-based companies and trade organizations associated with the industry and related industries, and the full range of U.S. timber and hardwood products and by-products, including lumber, veneer, plywood, flooring, cabinetry, moulding, furniture, and other materials.

All TFF programs and efforts are intended to broaden and bolster the outreach into U.S. and international markets by encouraging national and worldwide demand for U.S. timber and American hardwood products.

We believe U.S. timber and American hardwoods have a rising market challenge, but not an overwhelming one. We believe that with powerful promotional efforts, advocacy campaigns, and educational programs, the industry can thrive like never before.

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The Timber & Forestry Foundation (TFF) promotes the sustainable U.S. timber and American hardwoods industries, representing U.S.-based companies and trade organizations associated with the industry and related industries, and the full range of U.S. timber and hardwood products and by-products, including lumber, veneer, plywood, flooring, cabinetry, moulding, furniture, and other materials.

All TFF programs and efforts are intended to broaden and bolster the outreach into U.S. and international markets by encouraging national and worldwide demand for U.S. timber and American hardwood products.

We believe U.S. timber and American hardwoods have a rising market challenge, but not an overwhelming one. We believe that with powerful promotional efforts, advocacy campaigns, and educational programs, the industry can thrive like never before.

The Challenge:

The U.S. timber and hardwoods industry needs multifaceted and modern campaigns to help battle misconceptions about the resource and influence the design community and the public to use — and choose — U.S. hardwoods because they are the most sustainable and beautiful in the world.

The Plan:

The Timber & Forestry Foundation, or TFF, intends to develop campaigns employing modern marketing tactics, including print, digital, and live events, to reach into U.S. and international markets and encourage national and worldwide demand for U.S. timber and American hardwood products.

The Pitch:

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TFF develops promotional campaigns and advocacy efforts focused on the U.S. timber and American hardwoods industries.

TFF develops promotional campaigns and advocacy efforts focused on the U.S. timber and American hardwoods industries.

The TEDx Talk

The Timber & Forestry Foundation's founding director was recently featured as a TEDx speaker. In this informative talk, Criswell explains with data how the use of American hardwoods in building and design is good for the environment and actually part of a being a good steward of the natural resource of trees.

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Recent News

Selection Harvesting – How the U.S. Manages Timber Resources Sustainably

In this video, Criswell Davis talks about selection harvest, a sustainable timber and forestry management practice that only cuts down mature trees at their peak life. This is how the United States is able to satisfy 25% of the world's appetite for hardwoods while only possessing 9% of the world's hardwood resource in flooring, joinery, and futunitre. Thanks to selection harvesting, in the U.S. we are growing twice as much timber as we're cutting every year, and we have more than twice as much timber as we had 50 years ago.

Article from TBM Hardwoods: 5 Facts to Know from Criswell Davis’s Ted Talk on Designing with Hardwood

Our friends at TBM Hardwoods wrote up an article on our founding director’s TEDx talk that is a great quick read. Check out this excerpt: “As we hear about rainforests burning and other environmental disasters, it’s beneficial to watch the video to better understand how the well-managed U.S hardwoods resource is sustainable. And by well-managed, that means cutting trees down at the ... Read More
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