Resources Measurements Subject Area
A1 - Inventory and Biometrics
Focus: Collecting, summarizing, and evaluating information in the management and biological study of forests, including forest mensuration, statistical sampling issues, and inventory
A2 - Forest Technology
Focus: Spatial technologies including data capture, processing, analysis, software, and management solutions that impact forest and natural resource management
Forestry Systems Subject Area
B1 - Private Forestry
Focus: Supporting professionals in topics relevant to private and family forest landowners, industrial, timber-investment management organization, tribes, and conservation organizations
B2 - Urban and Community Forestry
Focus: Programs, policy, and regulatory laws in urban forest management
B3 - International Forestry
Focus: Policies and practices of forest conservation and management for ecological, social, and economic objectives
B4 - Agroforestry
Focus: Windbreaks, riparian buffer plantings, wildlife plantings, alley cropping, block plantings, and forest grazing (silvopasturing)
New! B5 - Department of Defense (DoD) Forestry
Focus: Ecosystem management on military-owned lands while supporting the installation mission
Ecology and Biology Subject Area
C1 - Forest Ecology
Focus: Relationships between forests and the environment, particularly the growth and development of forests
C2 - Soils
Focus: Properties of soils that influence the distribution and growth of trees, and affect management practices
C3 - Water Resources
Focus: Forest hydrology and watershed management
C5 - Wildlife and Fish Ecology
Focus: Interactions of forests and water resources, habitat management, the effects of forest management actions on fish and wildlife resources
C6 - Physiology
Focus: Tree physiology, tree water use, forest responses to climate change and disturbance, restoration, crown ecology, and biodiversity
Management and Utilization Subject Area
D1 - Forest Health and Genetics
Focus: Forest entomology, forest pathology, forest genetics, tree improvement, integrated forest health, seed orchard management, vegetative propagation, and tissue culture techniques
D2 - Silviculture
Focus: Supporting professionals in topics relevant to the science of silviculture to practicing foresters and the research community
D3 - Forest Production and Utilization
Focus: Forest engineering, harvesting, and the manufacturing, marketing, and utilization of forest products
D4 - Wildland Fire Management
Focus: Science, technology, research, and application of fire management in support of wildland fire protection, forestry, and rangeland ecosystem programs
Decision Sciences Subject Area
E1 - Economics, Policy, and Law
Focus: Role of economics, policy, and law in the management of forests and forest systems
E2- Land Use Planning, Organization, and Management
Focus: Supporting professionals understand land management organization and how to be adapt activities, structure and function for future needs
E3 - Bioenergy, Climate Change, and Carbon
Focus: Climate change, carbon management, and domestic renewable energy and the forests' role in reducing and preventing GHG emissions
E4 - Management Science and Operations Research
Focus: Planning, operations, strategic, and tactical models to facilitate the management of forest resources at scales ranging from individual organisms to global systems
E6 - Sustainability and Forest Certification
Focus: Sustainability theory, criteria and indicators, role of forester certification in forest certification, auditing, labeling, marketing, and acceptance of labeled forest products
Social and Related Sciences Subject Area
F2 - Recreation and Wilderness Management
Focus: Role of wilderness in natural resources management, as well as on national and international issues
F3 - Diversity and Inclusion
Focus: Creating a community of practice that supports participation by the full diversity of people in the science and management of forests
F4 - Human Dimensions and Education
Focus: Improving understanding and application of relevant communications and outreach techniques to address forestry-related issues, including environmental education
F5 - Philosophy and History
Focus: the diverse philosophical perspectives—past, present, and future—that drive forest management, including ethics and the philosophy of science