WVFA eNews Weekly

Area 1 -- Nov. 10 -- 6:00 p.m. -- Copper House Grill, Fairmont
Area 2 -- Nov. 06 -- 6:30 p.m. -- Landes Rurtian, near Petersburg
Area 3 -- Nov. 19 -- 5:30 p.m. -- 1863 Grill & Restaurant, Elkins
Area 4 -- Dec. 02 -- 6:00 p.m. -- Ryan's Restaurant, Beckley
Area 5 -- Nov. 12 -- 6:00 p.m. -- Buffalo Wild Wings, Charleston
Area 6 -- Jan. 07 -- 5:00 p.m. -- 4-H Camp Grounds (TBD), Wood County

Members, watch your emails, faxes and for phone calls and letters for further details.
Also, contact your elected state official for improved Legislator attendance (contact info in your mailed meeting information).

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/wvf-nwl/articles/?aid=346544&issueID=41992 to view the full article online.

Congress has funded the government through a short-term continuing resolution (CR), which terminates December 11. This CR included $700 million of emergency funding to repay the Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 transfer. For funding beyond December 11, Congress must enact an Omnibus Bill Package (or another CR). So, many entities have signed a letter in support of the FY2016 Omnibus.

Summary of the letter:
- Thank you for the FY2015 $700M repayment
- Please include a fire funding fix in the omnibus that 1) addresses transfers, 2) accesses disaster cap, and 3) addresses increasing costs of suppression over time.
- Includes the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, which includes those fixes in the Omnibus.

Visit http://www.naylornetwork.com/wvf-nwl/pdf/10-15.WDFA_FY16_Omnibus_Letter_with_Groups.pdf to view the full article online.

Last week, the WV Sustainable Forestry Initiative Implementation Committee met to further discuss updates to its Logger Education module for the upcoming logger education workshops. Their modular will now include the new SFI Standards and Guiltiness, as well as more current information about West Virginia forests.

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/wvf-nwl/articles/?aid=346520&issueID=41992 to view the full article online.

Amid record drought and a record wildfire season in the West, the American Forest Foundation (AFF) today released a new report that reveals private and family landowners offer a solution to helping ensure that clean water in the West is protected from future catastrophic wildfires.

The report Western Water Threatened by Wildfire: It’s Not Just a Public Lands Issue, shows that across 11 Western states, 40 percent, or 13.5 million acres, of the forests and other lands that help protect clean water and that are at a high risk of catastrophic wildfire are private and family-owned.

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/wvf-nwl/articles/?aid=346454&issueID=41992 to view the full article online.

The American Tree Farm System is the key to making the most of our woodlands, for whatever our management objectives are. To learn how to be a part of the WV Tree Farm Program, as an Inspector, just contact WVFA. Then, a representative from the West Virginia Tree Farm Committee will contact you. There are no fees or obligations.

WEST VIRGINIA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 718
Ripley, WV 25271
Phone: (304) 372-1955

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/wvf-nwl/articles/?aid=346745&issueID=41992 to view the full article online.

In no place is the optimism of the American chestnut restoration more evident than on the barren slopes of abandoned mines on the tops of Appalachian mountains.

Here, where entire mountain tops have been blasted off and the rubble pushed into valleys, hybrid American chestnuts, including Restoration Chestnut 1.0 trees, are being planted to reclaim the ruined landscape, as well as provide information essential to the widespread re-establishment of a stronger, disease-resistant tree.

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/wvf-nwl/articles/?aid=346473&issueID=41992 to view the full article online.