Giving to the Kansas Forest Service

Support The Kansas Forest Service

The Kansas Forest Service provides for the development, promotion, protection, and conservation of forest resources in Kansas. This includes both rural and community forests.

Although it is one of the nation's oldest forestry agencies, first established in 1887, Kansas Forest Service has grown and adapted to meet the needs of present-day Kansans. Kansas Forest Service has expanded in staff, programs and services offered. With that growth, comes an additional need for financial support.

Supporing our agency helps to conserve the natural resources of our state and especially the forests, woodlands and wildlife that are the focus of our mission. Gifts may take a variety of forms such as David Jackman Jr.’s bequeath of his 950 acre estate that created the Jackman Demonstration Forest.

A gift to the Kansas Forest Service makes a difference in the lives of Kansans and ensures a bright future for Kansas ecosystems and communities. Gifts to the Kansas Forest Service are given through the Kansas State University Foundation.

• Support the Demonstration Forest
  To help educate landowners, David Jackman Jr. bequeathed 950 acres of land in Butler County to the Kansas Forest Service as Kansas’ first demonstration state forest. Financial support is needed to develop and maintain the property into a first-class working forest. This is an outstanding opportunity for us to show examples of what others can do to reach their forestland ownership objectives.

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• Support Wildland Fire Efforts
  Wildland fire is a threat to more than 46 million acres of our rural lands. Since 1963, the Kansas Forest Service has been making a difference in wildland fire prevention and control by actively helping rural fire departments organize and develop to provide fire supression coverage statewide. A gift to the Kansas Forest Service helps to provide training and support to local fire efforts.

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• Support Conservation Plantings
  Conservation trees and shrubs play a strategic role in land and water conservation. The Kansas Forest Service has been making a difference through the low-cost tree and shrub seedlings to landowners for windbreaks, riparian forest buffers, woodlots, wildlife habitat, streambank stabilization, and living snow fences since 1957. A donation to the Kansas Forest Service supports conservation plantings.

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Ways to give to the Kansas Forest Service

Private gifts enhance the Kansas Forest Service’s ability to provide important programs to the citizens of Kansas and can take several forms. Gifts to the Kansas Forest Service are given through the Kansas State University Foundation and may include:

• Endowed Gifts
• Gifts of Cash
• Gifts of Securities
• Gifts of Real Estate
• Bequests
• Matching Gifts

To discuss these or other gift options, please contact our office at 785-532-3300 or by emailing kfs@ksu.edu.