As a Louisiana forest landowner, you are one of the 148,000 private landowners who own 81% of our state's commercial forestland. Your forest provides wood products, jobs, wildlife habitat, clean air, water and recreation for you and others.

The Louisiana Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) is an effort to encourage all forest landowners, loggers, foresters and manufacturers to use practices that are economically and environmentally responsible and that protect the health and productivity of our forestlands.

For questions about Scenic Rivers in the state, there is a listing on the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. This list can change over time.
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Read the following Topics for your guide to the SFI (PDF Docs)

• Programs and Standards

• Forest Management Plans

• Reforestation and Afforestation 

• Best Management Practices

  • BMP manual

• Forest Biomass and Energy

• Invasive and Exotic Species

• Maintaining Habitat Diversity

• Forests with Exceptional Conservation Value

• Forest Aesthetics

• American Tree Farm System

• Climate Change and Forest Sequestration

• Wildfire Risk Reduction

• SFI Landowner's Guide — 15 pages

• Imperiled Species Listing by Parish
  (Including all levels of endangered species)