This Nation's commitment to our forest resources provides a hundred year history of legislation directing USDA Forest Service assistance to state, private and tribal forest land owners. Today, Cooperative Forestry partnerships and programs continue that commitment by supporting forest and tree stewardship with private, community, state, industry and American Indian/Alaska Native forest resource owners and managers.

Cooperative Forestry, in partnership with State Foresters and other key partners, redeems the Forest Service responsibility to connect federal forest resource management programs, expertise and objectives to the nation's 9.9 million private forest land owners, 390 million acres of private forest lands and 45,000 rural and urban communities.