July 24, 2008-- It has been a busy summer for the Southern Forest Futures Project. We are happy to report that we have now completed a thorough analysis of the comments received at the eighteen public meetings we held earlier this year. Perhaps not surprisingly, it took considerable time and effort to sift through the more than 2,200 comments and craft a set of issues to be addressed by the Futures Project. This issue analysis is posted on this website along with a form for sending your review comments back to us. We have also been working on crafting a set of scenarios for consideration by the Futures Project. In June, we convened a small team of experts in Atlanta to begin this process based on the input received at the public meetings. It was a fruitful meeting and we will be drafting a report on scenarios in the near future. We are looking forward to moving on to the next steps of the project. We will continue to firm up the scenarios, flesh out our sub-regional analysis teams, and begin to do the analytical work of the Futures Project. We will continue to post our progress on this website.