Native Forest Council: Forest Voice

Major campaigns: Save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; Fight the Umpqua Land Exchange; Preserve roadless areas; Stop the Forest Service fee demo program; Honest Ed campaign to promote accurate environmental education; Forever Wild legislation to save America's publicly-owned lands.
After more than a decade of renting office space, the Council financed an office through the Helen Johnson Fund.
Administrative Assistants Debbie Shivers and Denise DeBerry and Managing Editor Wendy Martin joined our team.
President Tim Hermach was invited to join the Roster of Experts at the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of researchers and analysts.
We redesigned our website: www.forestcouncil.org.
The Council joined a coalition of groups suing to stop the destructive development plan for Yosemite National Park.
In another lawsuit, we took a logging industry group to task for producing their own "Forest Voice."
Our articles exposing corporate control of environmental education were printed in Utne Reader, Liberal Slant, VegSource and the New York Times.
The Native Forest Council built coalitions with religious groups committed to the environment.
The Council was cited as a source in many newspapers, magazines and television programs across the nation.
We supported other like-minded grassroots groups with technical and logistic support to help their mission (and ours).

A review of the litigation, legislation and educational tools used by the NFC in 2001.

A review of the major campaigns and actions of the NFC in 2001.

Highlights the lives of council members Dr. Susan Cox and Helen Johnson and their generous gifts to the NFC.

Council member Moisha Blechman staunchly fights for saving what's left of our natural resources.

An overview of how we put our resources to work and who provides them.