Celebrating 30 Years of Stewardship!
2025 celebrated the Guild's 30th anniversary
Our community forges a healthy future for people and forests. We've advanced what is now embraced as ecological forestry. We are training and empowering stewards to balance the multitude of values forests hold, and challenges they face. We create the foundation, structures, and help articulate policies that support responsible stewardship as a national imperative. We are just getting started!
Members continue to host Guild Gatherings, so we may 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
- Southern Blue Ridge Silviculture, GregCooper, The Nature Conservancy
- Shortleaf Pine Restoration on the Southern Cumberland Plateau, Ken Smith, University of the South Sewanee
- Coastal Plain Longleaf Management, Kevin McIntyre, Jones Center at Ichauway
- Remnant Old Growth Longleaf Pine Savannas and Forests of the Southeastern USA, J. Morgan Varner and John Kush - PDF
- Bird-Friendly Recommendations for Bottomland Forests in the Carolinas, Tim Evans, Audubon SC
- BMPs for Golden Winged Warbler Habitats in the Appalachian Region - PDF
- Desired Forest Conditions for Wildlife, Brian Roy Lockhart, Hardwood Silviculture, LLC, Arkansas
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
"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
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