2024 Forest Landowners Wrapped
The New Year is a time to pause and reflect—celebrating progress, milestones, and the journey itself. And let’s be honest, in today’s world of year-end recaps, that reflection often comes with data. From Spotify Wrapped to Goodreads’ Year in Books, everyone loves crunching the numbers to see the story behind their growth.
In the spirit of the season, we’re joining the trend with a look at Forest Landowners’ 2024 highlights. From cost-share for longleaf pine to organizations that signed on to support the Disaster Reforestation Act, our numbers tell the story of stewardship, resilience, and impact. Read on for some of our proudest achievements this year—and here’s to even greater growth in 2025!
127 New FLA Members
In 2024, FLA welcomed 127 new members from 35 states and 2 countries (USA & Germany). Willkommen!
13 Online Learning Sessions
Forest Landowners’ hosted 13 online learning sessions ranging from learning about new tools for landowners to how forests produce clean water.
70 State and National Organizations Signed Onto DRA
DRA—the Disaster Reforestation Act—FLA’s number one policy priority was supported by 70 state and federal organizations to fix the tax code that harms forest landowners’ ability to recover after a natural disaster.
5,000 Acres of Longleaf Management and Planting
FLA’s longleaf cost share provided funds for 2,500 acres of longleaf management and 2,500 acres of new longleaf planted through a grant from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation.
24 Conference Sponsors
The National Conference of Private Forest Landowners –held near Denver, Co—had 24 conference sponsors that interacted with our membership.
8,736 Cups of Coffee
Forest Landowners’ staff drank a lot of coffee… is it this much? We don’t know, but it sounds about right.
12 Students Sent to DC for Forest Policy Institute
Twelve students from six universities joined the FLA board in Washington DC for the Forest Policy Institute where they learned how important policy work is to private forest landowners.
35 Legislator Meetings at the 2024 Fly-In
In February 2024, the FLA board met with 35 legislators to share our policy priorities with the main focus being Disaster Recovery.
4 Schools Participated in National Forest Products Week
Students, faculty, landowners, and partners throughout the supply chain hosted events at Louisiana Tech, Stephen F. Austin State, the University of Missouri, and the University of Georgia.
1842 People Received Forest Landowner Magazine
Forest Landowner Magazine is published every two months and contains landowner profiles, policy updates, market opportunities and more.
163,305 Emails Sent
Whoa – that’s a lot of emails… this was the number sent via Mailchimp—from FLA FOCUS, our e-newsletter to policy alerts and online learning series registration emails—we have a feeling if we added in our staff personal emails.. we might reach 200,000!
123 “You’re on Mute”s
Forest Landowners’ staff all work remotely which means a lot of Zoom and Teams meetings…. Did we really count the number of times this was said? Well, no. But it has to be around this number.