Mitigation Idea: Develop and provide education materials encouraging landowners to maintain lands as working forests
Here is an anonymous mitigation idea we've received: Develop and provide educational materials that focus on encouraging landowners to maintain their lands as working forests.
Here is an anonymous mitigation idea we've received: Support and/or participate in state forestry associations or other groups that advocate for private landowners keeping their lands in forests.
Participate in the discussion forum to share ideas and provide feedback about practical actions that companies can take to promote positive impacts on forest management, and reduce the risk of procuring wood from forests where important ecological values are threatened.
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