Welcome to the Southern
Forest Research Partnership

Welcome to the Southern Forest Research Partnership, Inc (SFRP). SFRP is a new model in cooperative forestry research that builds on the strengths of existing cooperative research programs by reaching across organizational boundaries to attract support from broader segments of the forestry community.

Latest Activities

Publication Release - Southern Forestry Cooperatives

The Southern Forest Research Partnership today released a publication titled Southern Forestry Cooperatives.

SFRP Centers of Excellence Overview and Leadership Tour next steps...

Press Release - October 21, 2010

Publication Release - Southern Forestry Research Compendium

The Southern Forest Research Partnership today released a publication titled- Southern Forestry Research Compendium: A Summary of Southern Forest Researchers and Research Focus Areas.

Forest Biomass Education Materials

The Southern Forest Research Partnership invites you to review and use several new educational products pertaining to the production and utilization of woody biomass for bioenergy and other bio-based products in the southern US.

Latest Publications

2011 Q1 - Forestry Research in the South

Carbon and Forest Biomass

Southern Forestry Cooperatives

“Southern Forestry Cooperatives: A Publication of the Southern Forest Research Partnership.” This publication highlights the activities of our members in the form of the forestry research cooperatives housed at SFRP-member institutions. We encourage our members, non-members and others in the forestry community to review the document, which offers you multiple opportunities to engage and help direct research in focused disciplines.

Southern Forestry Research Compendium

A Summary of Southern Forest Researchers and Research Focus Areas. This publication highlights the researchers in SFRP’s Centers of Excellence. In order to present an adequate summary of research being conducted within the SFRP, individual researchers are consolidated into six SFRP Centers of Excellence.

Southern Forests - Fueling the Future

The development of a forest based energy infrastructure in the Southern United States has the capacity of producing the equivalent of approximately 52 million barrels of oil annually from conventionally harvested wood residues. Beyond that, the forest of the South have the potential to accommodate a 20% increase in wood removal and still maintain sustainable production.