The National Association of University Forest Resources Programs (NAUFRP), was formed in 1981. Today, NAUFRP represents 80 of our nation’s most prestigious universities and their respective scientists, educators and extension specialists.
Our vision for America’s forests is for a national long-term investment to maintain, enhance, and protect the quantity and quality of the nation’s forests and the benefits and intrinsic values forests offer.
NAUFRP’s purpose is to advance the health, productivity, and sustainability of America’s forests by providing university-based natural resource education, research, science, extension and international programs.
• Member institutions provide the most reliable, objective, and innovative research on forest ecology, management, utilization, and policy.
• Our members create the curricula for today and future forest stewardship needs.
• Through natural resource research, member organizations create and disseminate new knowledge that spans the biological, physical, social, economic, and political sciences.
Our member institutions’ programs develop future leaders, create intellectual capacity, secure financial investments, and advance cutting-edge technology to sustain forest resources.
• Virtually all leaders in the forestry profession received their formal education and continued professional development from a university member-institution.
• Our group’s commitment to cultural diversity and inclusion ensure that the future natural resource workforce and perspectives reflect the diversity of the Nation’s people and values.
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We connect educators, professional managers, scientists, conservation leaders, policy makers, landowners, and forest users to jointly address diverse ecological and human challenges.
• Partner organizations include international, federal, state, and local governments, private companies, conservation organizations, professional societies, landowners, non-profits, and many others.
