Conservation
The Alabama Forestry Foundation works with landowners to promote forest conservation, protect water quality, and improve habitat for at-risk wildlife.
Education
The Alabama Forestry Foundation provides programs and resources for teachers to enhance their students’ math and science skills and increase their understanding for forestry.
Legal
Alabama Forestry Foundation follows state and local policies that may affect landowners and works through appropriate legal channels to help ensure landowner property rights are respected.
Markets
Working with state and national partners, Alabama Forestry Foundation promotes wood-based construction and provides information to key decision makers in order to grow markets for forest products.
Sustainability
Alabama Forestry Foundation promotes sustainable forest management and forest certification through the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and the Alabama Tree Farm Program.
Healthy forests, healthy future.
Alabama’s 23 million acres of forestland make up one of the state’s most valuable natural resources and support an extraordinary diversity of plants and wildlife. More than 132,000 miles of biologically rich rivers and streams weave across the landscape, creating habitats found nowhere else in the country. With such remarkable natural abundance, it’s easy to understand why Alabama is known as ‘Amazing Alabama.’
Alabama Forest Ownership
forest facts
learn about alabama’s forests
Alabama has the 3rd most timberland acreage in the contiguous United States - 71% of the state of Alabama is covered in forestland (nearly 23 million acres of it). The single most prevalent forest type is softwood (mostly pine) at 46% of stands, followed by 42% hardwood stands, and 12% mixed hardwood/pine stands.
The state is gaining timber volume at a higher rate than most all other Southeastern states showing a 37.3% increase between the periods of 2001 to 2019.
