Sustainable forest management (SFM) creates and maintains corridors of forests for animals to naturally move through their entire range during each stage of their lifecycle. This helps prevent forest fragmentation, where loss of forest and small-block forests can negatively impact critical biodiversity enablers like temperature, wind speed, light and humidity.
By keeping forests as forests, sustainable forest management keeps common species common and helps support threatened, endangered, and at-risk species. Many forest owners also provide access to private land that would otherwise be off-limits to conservation and wildlife researchers.
TIR is a proud partner of Wildlife Conservation Initiative (WCI), which is just one aspect of our wildlife conservation efforts. The initiative brings together other members of the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. (NCASI), and other stakeholders in a collaborative approach to species conservation.
In 2023, the Biden Administration highlighted the WCI as a new partnership to accelerate the conservation of at-risk species as part of their 2023 Conservation in Action Summit.