S2This bibliography is a comprehensive listing of domestic articles and research papers, as well as foreign research papers, about forest cooperatives. The compilation was made in conjunction with and as a byproduct of a formal socio-economic analysis of forestry associations. The articles concern, directly or indirectly, the activities of cooperative associations formed by forest landowners to market timber and timber products.S3.
Nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) land represents approximately 48 percent of the forest land cover in the United States, and conscientious stewardship of these forests is a perennial issue facing natural resource professionals. In an attempt to draw on the strengths of NIPF ownership, some entrepreneurial forest landowners are developing forest landowner cooperatives. In this proceedings of a satellite conference, we present information designed to help natural resource professionals and cooperative development specialists to: (1) gain a better understanding of cooperatives and a deeper insight into some of the successes and challenges of cooperatives; (2) evaluate whether the forestry cooperative model is right for your area and, if so, how to further the discussion locally; (3) see how cooperatives can complement other landowner assistance programs such as Tree Farm, Forest Stewardship, and woodland owner associations; and (4) hear first hand about the experiences of forestry cooperative initiatives in Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Washington.
The Otsego Forest Products Cooperative Association is one of the most successful of the farmer's cooperatives that have attempted to deal with forest products. Now including about 1,000 members, it serves owners of woodlands in the rolling dairy country in and about Otsego County in central New York.
"This bibliography was prepared as an aid to federal, state and county foresters who are interested in forming cooperative associations for the management of forest land and the markeing of forest products. ... Cooperative marketing of forest products in a comparatively new development in this country and the literature is scattered and fragmentary. All referecnes located on the subject have therefore been included even when they consist of only a page or a paragraph." Signed by Mildred B. Williams, Librarian.
