Celebrating 30 Years of Stewardship!
2025 is the Guild's 30th anniversary. Our community, made up of staff, members, partners, and ecosystems themselves, support each other to forge a healthy future for people and forests. We've advanced what is now embraced as ecological forestry. We are training and empowering stewards and landowners to balance the multitude of values forests hold and challenges they face. We create the foundation, structures, and help articulate policies that support responsible stewardships as a national imperative. We are just getting started!
Throughout 2025, members host Guild Gatherings, so we may join together, learn, and enrich our work across the country. Thanks to all who host and attend and are part of this community.
Presentation PDFs from 25th anniversary Guild Gathering
- Southern Blue Ridge Silviculture, GregCooper, The Nature Conservancy
- Shortleaf Pine Restoration on the Southern Cumberland Plateau, Ken Smith, University of the South Sewanee
- Coastal Plain Longleaf Management, Kevin McIntyre, Jones Center at Ichauway
- Remnant Old Growth Longleaf Pine Savannas and Forests of the Southeastern USA, J. Morgan Varner and John Kush - PDF
- Bird-Friendly Recommendations for Bottomland Forests in the Carolinas, Tim Evans, Audubon SC
- Desired Forest Conditions for Wildlife, Brian Roy Lockhart, Hardwood Silviculture, LLC, Arkansas
Reflections
Reflections on Disturbance and Early Succession
by Steven Harrington, Nov 2020
Reflections on 25 years of FSG
by Jeffrey Smith, Oct 2020
Gratitude and Hope
by Bren Whittaker, Sept 2020
A 25th Anniversary Founder's Essay
by Robert Hrubes, May 2020
Inception Point
by Robert Perschel, March 2020
Remembering our Roots , Growing it Forward
by Barrie Brusila, February 2020
Early Guild History
by Henry Carey, November 2019
A 25th Anniversary Essay
by Al Sample, October 2019
Reaching Back
by Ross Morgan, September 2019
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Let's celebrate together!
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