ISF has created areas of intense focus to carry out our mission for over 30 years. 


Our Current Initiatives

Forward-thinking, engagement-focused goals, initiatives, commitments, and strategies to manage our forests and prepare our wildland-urban interfaces for the surety of climate change and more fires.

  • The Journalism Project

    ISF interviews experts and hosts discussions on a wide variety of forestry-related topics for broadcast on KMUD public radio.

    Every show of the Sustainable Forestry Journalism Project presents a different aspect of harmonizing our lives and our economy with the life and economy of the forest.

    Click HERE to listen to our past audio archives

    To sign up for notification about upcoming shows, click HERE

  • Agroforestry

    ISF promotes and encourages the establishment of integrated food, fiber, herbs and medicine within the forest through education, promotion of indigenous uses, and cultivation of agroforestry plants.

    For more information for one of our most interesting new initiaves click HERE

  • Hikes and Field Trips

    ISF leads hikes and outings to sites of interest. These have included Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, KP's Custom Milled Redwood in Piercy, and campouts in the footprint of the August Wildfire Complex. Experts provide information and answer questions during the events.

    Find our calendar of events HERE, and to read about previous hikes click HERE

  • Biochar

    Beginning in 2018, ISF has offered training workshops in making and using biochar—charcoal that serves as a soil amendment. Biochar transforms forest waste from fuel reduction projects into a useful resource at low cost.

    For more details about biochar click HERE

  • Forest Management

    With the combined expertise and experience of its principal members, ISF offers guidance in sustainable forest management to groups and individuals.

    Prior ISF articles and activities related to forest management can be found HERE

 

We are the inheritors of the earth, and we are empowering ourselves through community education and connections. The problems we face will not be solved for us. We must establish the new benchmark for civilization, for our forest-based communities to endure. 

— Chip Tittman