Sustainable Forestry Teachers Experience
A summer professional development workshop where NC educators tour forests and forestry facilities and bring sustainable forestry back to their classrooms.
The Forest Education and Conservation Foundation advances the sustainable management of North Carolina’s forests through education, science, and technology to enrich our state and its communities.
A summer professional development workshop where NC educators tour forests and forestry facilities and bring sustainable forestry back to their classrooms.
Five scholarships for students pursuing forestry careers at Haywood CC, Montgomery CC, Wayne CC and NC State.
With ForestryWorks® and NC FFA, the AN53 Natural Resources II – Forestry high school course has been in NC schools since 2024–2025.
Free kits for educators: 14 products derived from trees, with descriptions and the PLT activity We All Need Trees. Request a kit or download the product cards.
An award-winning PreK–12 environmental education program. NCFA is one of three NCPLT partners and funds the books used in SFTE.
NC's logger safety training, built on three pillars: safety, business and environmental awareness.
An ongoing partnership with CBS 17 news. View the videos.
The Forest Education and Conservation Foundation (FECF) was founded in 1965 as an extension of the North Carolina Forestry Association called ‘The North Carolina Forestry Association (NCFA) Foundation'. The Foundation was established to receive gifts and bequests of money and property “for the educational, scientific, and technological development and advancement of forestry; and for the development and diffusion of knowledge about the profession of forestry and the scientific management of forest resources.”
The Foundation serves as a separate entity from the NCFA to solicit funding to carry out public education and communication activities, and potentially fund scientific forestry research. A separate Board of Directors for the Foundation was also established.
Although the Foundation and the NCFA are recognized as separate entities, they are adjoined in the goal of conducting coordinated programs and activities. Historical records indicate that the Foundation did not become very active or large until the early 1990s. Beginning in 1990, the Foundation started to be used by the Association to conduct special projects in line with the mission of the FECF.
Jill Bite, Business Manager
(919) 834-3943 ext. 1
jbite@ncforestry.org
Jessica Ireland, Director of Education Programs
(919) 834-3943 ext. 3
jireland@ncforestry.org
Give online, by check, or with a First in Forestry license plate.
Ways to Give →
(919) 834-3943 main
(919) 832-6188 fax
North Carolina Forestry Association
1600 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 1
Raleigh, NC 27608
