Our Mission
We are a fellowship of women whose mission is to educate people of all ages that trees are renewable natural resources and wise forest management touches their everyday lives. We support our affiliated States and chapters in their goals of promoting the social, economic, and environmental benefits of sustainable forestry. Our efforts include advocating legislative initiatives that promote healthy forest.
What is Unique About Our Organization?
Women In Timber Associations have been actively fighting for our way of life in the Forest Products Community since 1976. Based mostly in the Western States, but also as far east as Michigan, each Women In Timber Association is a grassroots, volunteer organization whose focus is: education, communication and legislation. Each state, or region, is organized, and in most cases incorporated, independently of each other, focusing on issues that affect their own state or region.
Federated Women in Timber plans to work hard at convincing our government officials that a healthy renewable forest is the answer to our Nation’s concerns about storing carbon, creating renewable energy, green building, and biodegradable furniture. Even if we are shipping one truck load of lumber or logs down from a non-U.S. source (as close as Canada for instance) we are burning up 600 gallons of diesel fuel to move that wood. This simply isn’t acceptable if one wants to argue about the merits of preserving domestic forests for wildlife habitat and carbon storage while we use wood and bamboo from far away lands where large quantities of fossil fuels are burned to ship it here. Our government and citizens must take a more common sense approach to how we manage our forestlands and Federated Women in Timber, along with her affiliate State Chapter is continually here to spread that message.
If you wish to join FWIT or just have questions about us, please feel free to contact Holly at hmckenzie@centurytel.net We can set you up with a local Chapter in your State or you can be part of Women in Timber at Large.
Women in Timber:
- Supports sound forest management and use of forest resources.
- Recognizes America's need for social and environmental attributes of the forest and for forest products.
- Believes science and technology, combined with environmental care, can provide forest products without damaging the environment.
- Recognizes social, environmental and economic benefits of sound forest management.
Women In Timber
Lewis Clark Chapter
P.O. Box 2238
Lewiston, ID 83501
