Associations, Councils, and Professional Societies

Links to industry, government, and professional association, council, and society sites that cover a number of special interests related to forest products and forestry. Bookmark this page for easy future reference.

Association, Council, and Professional Society Links
Algoma Forest Coalition - Canada Alliance for Environmental Technology (AET) - international association of chemical manufacturers and forest products firms dedicated to improving the environmental performance of the pulp & paper industry. American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) - United States American Hardware Manufacturers Association (AHMA) - United States American Institute of Chemical Engineerers (AIChE) - Forest Products Division - United States American Institute of Timber Construction (AITC) - United States American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - United States American Plywood Association (APA) - The Engineered Wood Association - United States American Wood Council (AWC) - United States American Wood Preservers Institute (AWPI) - United States Architectural Woodwork Institute (AWI) - United States Arizona Woodturners Association (AWA) - United States (Arizona) Arkansas Wood Manufacturers Association - United States (Arkansas) Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) - United States Association Lietuvos Mediena (Lithuanian Wood Association) - Lithuania Association of British Columbia Professional Foresters - Canada Association of Consulting Foresters of America, Inc. (ACF) - United States Association of Wall and Ceiling Industries - International (AWCI) - United States Based/International Organization BC Wood Specialties Group Association - Canada (British Columbia) British Columbia Saw Filers Association (BCSFA) - Canada (British Columbia) British Furniture Manufacturers (BFM) - United Kingdom Building Officials and Code Administrators, International (BOCA) - United States Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) - United States Based/International Organization California Christmas Tree Growers (CCTG) - United States (California) California Forest Products Commission (CFPC) - United States (California) California Forestry Association (CFA) - United States (California) California Furniture Manufacturers Association (CFMA) - United States (California) California Redwood Association (CRA) - United States (California) Canadian Institute of Forestry, Central Ontario Section - Canada Canadian Pallet Council (CPC) - Canada Canadian Plywood Association (CANPLY) - Canada Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition - Canada Canadian Wood Council (CWC) - Canada Canadian Wood Pallet Association (CWPA) - Canada Central Kentucky Forest Management - Consulting forestry services provided to private and industrial landowners in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana Chlorine Chemistry Council - United States Christmas Tree Growers Association of Ontario (CTGAO) - Canada (Ontario) Construction Industry Manufacturers Association (CIMA) - United States Based/International Organization Council of American Building Officials (CABO) - United States Council of Forest Industries (COFI) - Canada Eastern Building Material Dealers Assocation - United States (Northeastern States) Ecoforestry Institute Society (EIS) - United States andCanada Evergreen Foundation - Canada Finnish Forest Industries Federation - Finland Finnish Forestry Association - Finland Finnish Timber Council - Finland Florida Pulp and Paper Association (FPPA) - United States (Florida) Forest Alliance of British Columbia (FABC) - Canada (British Columbia) Forest History Society (FHS) - United States Based/International Organization Forest Industries (Skogsindustrierna) - Sweden Forest Industry Suppliers and Logging Association (FISLA) - Canada Forest Industry Training and Education Council (FITEC) - United States Forest Landowners Tax Council Forest Products Society (FPS) - United States Based/International Organization Forest Stewardship Council - UK French Timber trade Association German Timber Trade Association - Germany Hardwood Manufacturers Association (HMA) - United States Hardwood Plywood & Veneer Association (HPVA) - United States Hawaii Forest Industry Association (HFIA) - United States (Hawaii) Incense Cedar Institute (ICI) - United States Indiana Lumber and Builders' Supply Association (ILBSA) - United States (Indiana) Intermountain Woodnet - United States (Northern Rocky Mountain States) International Association of Pallet Recyclers (IAPR) - United States Based/International Association International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA) - Netherlands Based/International Organization International Codes Council (ICC) - United States Based/International Organization International Congress of Building Officials (ICBO) - United States Based/International Organization International Door Association (IDA) - United States Based/International Organization International Order of the Hoo-Hoo, Melbourne Club #217 - Australia (Melbourne) International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) - United States Based/International Organization International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) - Japanese Based/International Organization International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) - Austrian Based/International Organization International Wood Products Association (IWPA) - International Japan Wood Research Society - Japan Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA) - United States Lignin Institute (LI) - United States Lumbermen's Credit Association (LCA) - United States Maine Wood Products Association (MWPA) - United States (Maine) Malaysian Timber Council (MTC) - Malaysia Michigan Association of Woodturners (MAW) - United States (Michigan) Michigan Forest Association (MFA) - United States (Michigan) Michigan Lumber and Building Materials Association (MLBMA) - United States (Michigan) Midwest Special Forest Products - United States (Minnesota) Minnesota Forest Industries - United States (Minnesota) Mississippi Forestry Association - United States Missouri Forest Products Association - United States Mountain States Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association - United States (Mountain States Region - Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Southeast Idaho, Utah and Wyoming) National Arbor Day Foundation - United States National Arborist Association (NAA) - United States National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) - Australia National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) - United States National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) - United States National Association of the Swedish Joinery Factories - Sweden National Council for Forest Research (COFORD) - Ireland National Forest Foundation (NFF) - United States National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) - United States National Lumber and Building Material Dealers Association (NLBMDA) - United States National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association) - United States National Paper Trade Association (NPTA) - United States National Paperbox Association (NPA) - United States National Particleboard Association (NPA) - United States National Retail Hardware Association (NRHA) - United States National Sash & Door Jobbers Association (NSDJA) - United States National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) - United States National Wood Window and Door Association (NWWDA) - United States andCanada National Wooden Pallet and Container Association - United States New England Wood Carvers (NEWC) - United States (New England States) Nordic Timber Council (NTC) - Finland, Norway, Sweden North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA) - United States andCanada North American Wood Products - distributes exotic hardwood and softwood, FSC certified Northeastern Retail Lumber Association (NRLA) - United States (Northeastern States) Northwest Washington Woodturners Association (NWWW) - United States (Washington) Northwest Wood Products Association - United States (Pacific Northwest) Ohio Forestry Association - United States (Ohio) Ontario Forestry Association - Canada (Ontario) Ontario Manufactured Housing Association - Canada (Ontario) Paper Federation of Great Britain -United Kingdom Paper Industry Research Association (PIRA) - United Kingdom Private Forest Landowners Association - Canada Redwood Region Logging Conference - United States (California) Small Wooden Boat Association of Nova Scotia (SWBANS) - Canada Society of American Foresters, Alaska Chapter (AKSAF) - United States (Alaska) Society of Finnish Female Professional Foresters - Finland Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) - United States Based/International Society Soutern Building Code Congress, International (SBCCI) - United States Southern Florida Truss & Component Manufacturers Association (SFT&CMA) - United States (Florida) Southern Forest Products Association (SFPA) - United States Southern Lumber Exporters Association (SLEA) - United States Southern Pine Council (SPC) - United States Structural Board Association (SBA) - Canadian Based/International Association Swedish Boards (Svenska Trskivor) - Sweden Swedish Federation of Forest Owners - Sweden Swedish Forest Industries Association - Sweden Swedish Forestry Association (Sveriges Skogvrdsfrbund) - Sweden Swedish Pulp & Paper Institute (STFI) - Sweden Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) - United States Based/International Association Temperate Forest Foundation The Forest Landowners of California - NON-industrial forest landowners in California The Idaho Forest Products Commission - United States (Idaho) Timber Framers Guild of North America (TFG) - United States andCanada TreeCanada Foundation (TCF) - Canada Triangle Wood Turners of North Carolina (TWTNC) - United States (North Carolina) Victorian Woodworkers' Association (VWA) - Australia (Victoria) Washington Contract Loggers Association (WCLA) - United States (Washington) Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA) - United States (Washington) Western Forestry and Conservation Association (WFCA) - United States Western Red Cedar Lumber Association (WRCLA) - United States andCanada Western Wood Products Association (WWPA) - United States (Western States) Western Wood Truss Association - Canada (British Columbia) Wisconsin Woodland Owners Asso - United States (Wisconsin) Wood Components Manufacturers Assocaition - United States Wood Moulding and Millwork Producers Association (WMMPA) - United States Wood Products Group - association of specialty and value-added wood product manufacturers Wood Products Manufacturers Association (WPMA) - United States Wood Truss Council of America (WTCA) - United States Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) - United States Based/North American Organization Woodwork Institute of California (WIC) - United States (California) World Timber Network (WTN) - Internet consortium of forest products-related associations