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Welcome to the website of the Sustainable Woodlands project.
From June 2001 to September 2005, the Sustainable Woodlands Project focused research, education, and outreach efforts on limited resource forest landowners in eastern North Carolina and Virginia.
The project
was based on the premise that combining productive and sustainable woodlands
with farming systems raises both quality of life and diversity in rural
landscapes. This is especially true for landowners who have not always
been able to take full advantage of forest management opportunities.
The long-term goal of the Sustainable Woodlands project was twofold:
- To strengthen the capacities of limited-resource, traditionally
under-served farm, and forest landholders to sustainably and profitably
manage their forest resources, and
- To identify opportunities for and constraints on participation
by these landholders in timber and alternative forest-products
sectors.
Working with grassroots and voluntary organizations, community
leaders, and local and state agencies, the project team focused on
seven counties: Duplin, Halifax, Northampton,
Robeson, Sampson and Warren counties in North Carolina, and neighboring
Brunswick county in Virginia.
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