Forest Voices Network
America's forests are losing the narrative.
Wildfire, climate change, and fragmentation are reshaping forests faster than most people know. The Forest Voices Network exists to close that gap by connecting science driven storytellers with the experts, data, and community they need to change that.
Network Leadership
Led by voices who know how to move people.
The Forest Voices Network is chaired by communicators whose work spans climate justice, science storytelling, and authentic audience-building across platforms and communities.
How It Works
Infrastructure that turns good storytellers into great ones.
The Forest Voices Network provides the scaffolding that independent communicators rarely have access to: expert sourcing, vetted research, peer community, and field access, grounded in the deep institutional knowledge of Forests Plus and its 500+ partner organizations.
Science Briefings
Quarterly research packages translate the latest forest science into communicator-ready insights, covering topics like wildfire, forest finance, biodiversity, climate resilience, and more.
Peer Community
A curated network of communicators working across platforms and regions by creating opportunities for collaboration, cross-pollination, and collective reach.
Sector Visibility
Stories reach audiences far beyond the communicators’ own following, amplified across the Forests Plus network of 500+ organizations and 1,500 sector leaders.
Editorial Independence
Members are never directed on what to say or how to say it. That independence is structural and it’s what makes the content credible to the audiences it needs to reach.
For Partners & Funders
Nature-based solutions won't scale until they become part of how everyone thinks.
The science on forests, carbon, water, and biodiversity is robust. The policy frameworks are developing. The funding is growing. What’s still missing is the cultural moment, the point at which nature-based solutions become a household term, woven into how ordinary people understand climate, land, and their own future.
That shift doesn’t happen through white papers or industry convenings. It happens when trusted, independent voices bring these ideas to new audiences in language that connects consistently, credibly, and at scale.
Investing in the Forest Voices Network is investing in that cultural infrastructure. It’s a bet that the long-term success of forest conservation depends not just on better policy or more capital, but on a public that understands why forests matter and demands their protection.
Build the Movement, Not Just the Moment
Sustained public understanding requires sustained investment in the communicators building it. Partners fund the infrastructure that makes consistent, quality storytelling possible over time.
Reach Audiences the Sector Doesn't
Forest science reaches policymakers and practitioners. The Forest Voices Network is designed to reach everyone else, the communities, consumers, and citizens whose understanding of nature ultimately shapes what’s politically and culturally possible.
Strengthen the Whole Ecosystem
When forests are better understood by the public, forest solutions become easier to fund, easier to legislate, and easier to implement. Partner investment in this network strengthens the enabling conditions for everything else in the sector.
Be Part of the Founding
This network is in its first year. The organizations that invest now help set its direction, establish its credibility, and earn recognition as the institutions that believed in this work before it was obvious.