Advocacy

Advocating for Private Forest Landowners

FLA was founded to advocate for policy and regulatory initiatives that address the economic challenges of private forest landowners in the United States. We work diligently with policymakers at the national level to foster a strong business environment and balanced regulatory climate for the benefit of private forest landowners.

Learn More About FLA’s Advocacy in Action

FLA is Using Grassroots Advocacy to Affect Real Policy Change

Learn more about our SET to GO teams and how you can be involved here.

FLA’s Political Action Committee is Strategic and Focused

Learn about how our Political Action Committee (PAC) is your voice in Washington D.C. here.

The Disaster Reforestation Act is a Simple Fix to the Tax Code for Forest Landowners

Learn how you can help get this vital legislation passed here.

FLA’s Policy Focus Areas

01.

Fair and Certain Taxation

FLA believes federal tax policies based on equality and certainty are required to encourage the nation’s private forest landowners to make sustained, long-term capital investments in forest management.

02.

Open & Robust Markets

FLA believes that working to achieve policies addressing the concern of forest landowners’ ability to sell timber in the U.S. and the global wood supply chain is important.

03.

Regulatory Stability

FLA believes that human society cannot reap the numerous benefits of forests without secure private property rights.

04.

Protecting Private Property Rights

FLA believes that the private property rights of forest landowners are vital to ensure that forests can be managed sustainably and economically viable.

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