Success StorySupporting an Expanding White Oak Initiative



Supporting an Expanding White Oak Initiative

Author: Darren Morris

Planning Unit: Forestry

Major Program: Forestry and Natural Resource Professional Education

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

Research has shown that white oaks in our forests are not regenerating at the rate needed to maintain our white oak forests as we know them today. State and federal agencies, private landowners, conservation organizations, trade associations, and forest industries have all joined together to ensure the long-term sustainability of white oak.

The White Oak Initiative newsletter grew from 200 recipients to near 3000.  The many committees that drive the initiative have broadened to include a diverse groups of experts, researchers, managers, and stakeholders.  This partnership network has taken on the goal of understanding and overcoming the barriers to sustainably managing white oak forests.

The White Oak Initiative and white oak forest management have begun to attract the attention of forest landowners.  A renewed focus on white oak management has emerged throughout the range of white oak as foresters, managers, forest industry, and others have joined together to spread the word on the economic, social and conservation benefits derived from healthy white oak forests.






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