AFA Mission & History

 

VISION

AFA strives to be the respected leader and credible information source for all issues related to forestry.

MISSION

AFA advocates for the sustainable use and sound stewardship of Arkansas’s forests and related resources to benefit members of the state’s forestry community and all Arkansans today and in the future.

 

AFA represents one of the state's largest manufacturing sector which directly employs some 33,000 Arkansans and contributes more than $1.46 billion annually in payroll. AFA also represents an estimated 2,500 certified family forest owners in the state, as well as 125,000 other non-industrial private forest landowners, who together own nearly 57 percent of Arkansas's forestland.

 

Forestry Issues
AFA members are finding ways to meet the demands for essential forest products, with the world's growing population, while maintaining fresh water and air supplies, enhancing fish wildlife habitat and conserving significant sites and recreation areas. Meeting all of these needs is perhaps one of the forestry community's greatest challenges today, and AFA members are meeting them head on.

 

AFA Education Foundation
The AFA Education Foundation (AFAEF) sponsors a Landowner Education and Assistance Program for landowners seeking forest management information. As part of this program, AFAEF holds a number of landowner education workshops throughout the state and publishes a variety of educational guides to provide landowners the information they need to make sound forest management decisions.

 

AFAEF also serves as an information and education source to Arkansas's teachers and students. AFAEF offers teacher training as part of the Project Learning Tree curriculum as well as summer teacher training workshops and other activities.