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TFF: The Voice for The American Timber and Hardwoods Industry

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The
Timber & Forestry
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TFF: The Voice for The American Timber and Hardwoods Industry

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What We're About

The Timber & Forestry Foundation (TFF) is an educational platform that promotes the inherent sustainability, carbon sequestration benefits, and beauty of North and South American timber and hardwoods. We believe that with promotional efforts, advocacy campaigns, and educational programs, these widely varied species of timber and hardwoods can thrive like never before.

As the world moves together in design toward the goal of carbon neutrality, TFF develops modern educational campaigns and outreach programs using innovative digital tools to reach into U.S. and international markets to drive demand for sustainably managed, legally harvested timber and hardwood products. TFF believes that conveying the true nature of timber and hardwoods as sustainable, green products is essential to influencing buying trends worldwide.

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 American timber and hardwoods industry needs multifaceted and modern educational campaigns to help battle misconceptions about the resource and influence the design community and the public to use — and choose — American 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 American timber and hardwood products.

The Proof:

TFF serves hardwoods, softwoods, and lumber companies and organizations by developing dynamic, modern media for the public, such as videos, presentations, webinars, social media, events, and speaking engagements.

TFF can create educational and promotional videos like the one below, produced for Banks Hardwoods, a premier hardwoods supplier headquartered in White Pigeon, MI. Video like this not only help promote individual companies, but the industry as a whole.

The video has reached over 375,000 views in less than a year from launch, and continues to expand its reach; the video is now featured on the National Hardwood Lumber Association's website. Educational and promotional videos sponsored by individual companies and organizations: that's how TFF is growing our industry's future.

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TFF is an educational platform that promotes the inherent sustainability, carbon sequestration benefits, and beauty of North and South American timber and hardwoods.

TFF is an educational platform that promotes the inherent sustainability, carbon sequestration benefits, and beauty of North and South American timber and hardwoods.

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Our TEDx Talk

The Timber & Forestry Foundation's founding director was has been 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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My continuing education, by Criswell Davis

I have been honored over the past 14 years of my 34-year career in the lumber business to talk with more than 10,000 architects and designers promoting the use of sustainable wood in biophilic design.  I have learned a great deal through this journey. In 2018 I became co-founder of the Timber & Forestry Foundation, whose mission has always been ... Read More

Looking for American Hardwood Industry Leaders

I started my work in the hardwood industry in 1988, selling hardwoods to small furniture, cabinet, flooring, and furniture makers.  In 1996 I began a 22-year career with a fine hardwood sawmill company, The Frank Miller Lumber Company.  I sold truckloads of their beautiful quartersawn hardwoods to distributors across the US and Canada as well as some of the highest ... Read More
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