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. 

Photos from the 30th anniversary Guild Gathering in Warren, Maine in June 2025.

 

Photos from our 25/26th anniversary Guild Gathering, Asheville, North Carolina, August 2021.

Presentation PDFs from 25th anniversary Guild Gathering

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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Contact membership@forestguild.org

 

"I regard the conference as a 'watershed' event in my career. Beyond the intellectual exchange, it was an affirmation of deeply held beliefs about working with the forest."

Charles Moreno

Founding member reflecting on the first Guild meeting

"I want to see an organization created out of this. I want to be part of an organization that reflects my values.."

Robert Hrubes

From first "Guild" meeting 24 years ago

"The worst thing we can do is to overwhelm or attempt to focus the environment."

Fred White

Founding member

"The Guild is a national association of professional foresters with a strong land ethic and an emphasis on ecologically responsible forestry."

Dave Publicover

AMC