NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF FOREST OWNERS

General issues related to infrastructure and the built environment; issues related to the use of low carbon building materials in the built environment; issues related to the the prioritization of proposals expanding existing technology transfer for use of low carbon building materials; general issues related to a new pilot program to integrate American-grown, innovative wood products into rural infrastructure and building projects issues related to The Timber Innovation for Building Rural Communities Act (H.R.5044 & S.2662), issues related to the use of mass timber for construction of federal buildings.

Issues related to climate change and carbon capture and storage as it relates to working forests; issues generally related to forest biomass and carbon; issues related to the definition of biomass.

Issues related to evaluation of the environmental sustainability, infrastructure resilience, cost effectiveness, and construction time of military construction projects built with mass timber in the National Defense Authorization Act 2024; issues related to foreign ownership of agricultural land.

Issues related to foreign ownership of agricultural land including the AFIDA Improvements Act of 2024 (S.3666).

Issues related to forestry and forest management, issues related to the development and use of mass timber, issues related to funding for forestry programs at USDA; issues related to expanding the scope of the Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Program to measure forest carbon; issues related to forestry and climate change; issues related to wildfire mitigation; issues related to wildfire suppression (H.R. 1586); issues related to the FIA Blue Ribbon Bill (S.433); issues related to the Forest Data Modernization Act of 2023 (S.1743 & H.R. 3990); general issues related to an online platform that would make forest health and carbon data available to stakeholders; issues related to educational grant programs to help colleges and universities train the next generation of engineers and architects on how to build with wood and mass timber; general issues to expand and strengthen the Wood Innovation Grant (WIG) program; general issues related to a new pilot program to integrate American-grown, innovative wood products into rural infrastructure and building projects; issues related to The Timber Innovation for Building Rural Communities Act (H.R.5044 & S.2662); issues related to codifying the Forest Service's National Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetic Resources program; issues related to the Forest Conservation Easement Program Act of 2023 (H.R. 3424); general issues related to the foreign ownership of agricultural land, issues related to the creation of a Forest Conservation Easement Program (H.R.3424 & S.2631)