Alford Forest

Alford Forest, Inc.

Mission

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The mission of Alford Forest, Inc. is to:

1) protect, maintain, and enhance the health and integrity of the Alford Forest while practicing ecological forestry on this land;

2) demonstrate and promote sustained, ecologically responsible and profitable production and sale of forest products from Ozark forestlands; and

3) help enable the expansion of good stewardship and sustainable forestry throughout the Ozarks

Ecological Forestry

...is a management method that takes its directions from the ecological patterns and wisdom of the forest itself in protecting, improving, and maintaining the health and biological diversity of the forest, even as it is used to selectively harvest trees and a variety of other products from the forest.

...works in the context of the watershed, bioregion and human community in which the forest is embedded to create locally-based, sustainable employment and economic opportunity for the people.

...includes enhancement of aesthetic, recreational, and spiritual values related to the forest and its watershed.