The Model Forest Policy Program (MFPP) is a national nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to forest stewardship and sustainable forestry practices by public and private forest land owners. MFPP partners with local governments, businesses, and public and private organizations by showing them how land use and sustainable practices that protect forested areas also provide long term, cost-effective climate solutions, water supplies and sustainable communities. We are partnering with local governments, businesses, public and private organizations by showing them how land use and sustainable practices that protect forested areas also provide long term, cost-effective climate solutions by: · Protecting community drinking and ground water · Preserving vital habitat · Ensuring economic stability · Sequestering carbon dioxide · Cooling air, water, soils · Reducing the impact of flooding …… all issues important to stabilizing global warming impacts at the local level. The Model Forest Policy Program (MFPP) is addressing the urgent issue of climate change by training climate resilient communities through its premiere program, Climate Solutions University.