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Protecting Martha’s Vineyard’s forests, woodlands, and natural habitats.

FVF’s mission is to protect and preserve Martha’s Vineyard’s forests, woodlands, and natural habitats through education, conservation, advocacy, scientific collaboration, and community engagement.

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Trees Are Living Infrastructure

Trees and forests do important work. They can slow runoff, promote infiltration, store carbon, cool land, stabilize soil, and support habitat. FVF believes these existing functions should be considered when consequential tree-loss decisions are evaluated.

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Why Vineyard Forests Matter

Martha’s Vineyard is home to a remarkable network of trees, microforests, and larger forests. These landscapes provide sanctuary for wildlife, protect groundwater resources, reduce erosion, store carbon, cool and clean the air, offset the negative impacts of flooding, and offer opportunities for recreation and connection with nature.

The Island’s trees and forests face increasing pressure from development, climate change and drought stress, southern pine beetle infestations, wildfire-risk management concerns, and the loss of biodiversity and habitat connectivity.

Why Vineyard Forests Matter
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Island Forest Framework

FVF supports a shared Island-wide approach to major tree-loss decisions: establish the existing conditions, understand what functions the trees provide, evaluate alternatives, consider cumulative effects, plan for restoration and maintenance, and monitor what happens after work is complete.

Read FVF’s Proposed Island Forest Framework
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Campaigns

Correllus is FVF’s origin story and first campaign, but it is not the organization’s entire identity.

The campaign reflects the broader questions FVF brings to consequential tree-loss decisions: What evidence supports the proposal? Is the scale proportional to the goal? What alternatives were studied? What restoration, maintenance, and monitoring will follow? How can the public participate meaningfully?

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Take Action

Support the Vineyard’s trees and forests by learning about the issues, signing the White Pines petition, sharing reliable information, contacting FVF, or helping build the organization’s capacity for research, education, outreach, and responsible conservation advocacy.

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Evidence

FVF brings together original sources, scientific research, agency records, planning documents, and clearly labeled organizational perspective.

Sources and limitations should remain visible so readers can distinguish evidence from interpretation.

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A Forest Under Pressure

Correllus is FVF’s origin story and first campaign.

Community concern about proposed tree removal in the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest helped bring people together around questions that extend beyond one forest: how the Island values mature trees, how major removal decisions are evaluated, and how evidence, alternatives, public participation, restoration, and accountability should shape those decisions.

The Correllus campaign remains important, but FVF’s mission extends across Martha’s Vineyard.

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About Friends of Vineyard Forests

FVF’s mission is to protect and preserve Martha’s Vineyard’s forests, woodlands, and natural habitats through education, conservation, advocacy, scientific collaboration, and community engagement.

Friends of Vineyard Forests is an Island-wide organization focused on forest education, advocacy, community organizing, scientific collaboration, conservation, and responsible stewardship.

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Take Action

Support the Vineyard’s trees and forests by learning about the issues, signing the White Pines petition, sharing reliable information, contacting FVF, or helping build the organization’s capacity for research, education, outreach, and responsible conservation advocacy.

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