The National Woodland Owners Survey

​What is the NWOS? The National Woodland Owner Survey is implemented through the Family Forest Research Center, which is a joint venture between the USDA Forest Service and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It is an imporatnt tool used by the USDA Forest Service to quantify: 

• Who owns the forests of the United States;
• Why they own them;
• How they use them; and 
• What they intend to do with them.

The NWOS serves as the social complement to the Nationwide Forest Inventory (NFI) and the National Resource Use Monitoring (NRUM) surveys that the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program conducts.  Learn more here. Members of the American Forest Foundation will receive direct invitations to participate.