Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry
Strategic Plan FY 2004 to FY 2008
 The Northeastern Area strategic plan helps us focus on the great threats affecting the Nation’s forests today—fire hazards, invasive species, forest fragmentation, and effects of unmanaged recreation. Since a majority of the Nation’s forests, including over 90 perscent of the forests within the 20 Northeastern and Midwestern States, are in State and private ownership, the success of our cooperative efforts is important and significant! Our strategic plan recognizes the challenges of today and prepares us for the challenges ahead. We will use this plan and the focus it provides to anticipate both opportunities and challenges facing forest resources, forest landowners, our partners, and our own organization. We’ll learn from the past, as we focus on the future.
The Year in Forestry
State and Private Forestry in the Northeastern Area Fiscal Year 2002
 The Year in Forestry S&PF NA 2003
More than 40 percent of Americans live in the Northeast and Midwest. Forests are an inseparable part of the landscape in this 20-State region, which stretches from Maine to Minnesota, south to Missouri, and east to Maryland and the District of Columbia. More than two-thirds of the region's forests, some of the most diverse and productive in the world, belong to private, noncommercial landowners. Forest industries, business entities, and Federal, State, and local governments own the remaining third.
Special Initiatives in the Northeastern Area
 The Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry special initiatives programs of the USDA Forest Service represent important tools for the monitoring, management, protection and better use of America's forests, with emphasis on nonfederal forestland stewardship. The following special initiatives provide examples of how the Northeastern Area provides leading-edge technical and targeted financial assistance to State partners and others for the stewardship of nonfederal forests.
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