Support Our Work!

Hello, and I hope you are doing well! It is an honor and a pleasure to reach out to Dovetail’s supporters. Thank you for all you do to enable our success and partnership. Carrying forward what we learn from season to season, year to year, and from practitioner to practitioner is essential to ensuring our work isn’t alone and our progress isn’t lost.

The Dovetail team carries three guiding principles in the ways we start and continue our work. One, we go local. We may not be able to address everything, everywhere, all at once - but we can always do work in our backyards, with our neighbors, and where our roots run deep. Two, we collaborate. We may not have all the answers, but we know that others will have more to add to ours and together we’ll go further. Three, we carry forward the work of those before us and create space for those who will do their work after us. The goal has never been to finish but to sustain and nurture.

I invite you to renew your support of Dovetail Partners via an online donation or by mail with this printable form. If you wish to contribute via stocks, bonds, or securities, you can find instructions here. Please reach out to me directly as you wish: 612-414-8041, katie@dovetailinc.org. Thank you for your support!

Sincerely,

Kathryn Fernholz

President & CEO

Last Call To Sign up for our Q3 Webinar!

Dovetail Partners is offering quarterly webinars throughout 2025 to highlight key topics and provide greater insight into issues addressed in our reporting. Our Q3 webinar will be presented by Kathryn Fernholz and Jim Bowyer and will be discussing:

Bioenergy Developments: Trends & Conditions.

September 5th, 2025 from 8:30-9:45 am CST



Register here for the webinar!

“Raise a glass; thank a tree!”

By: Kathleen Preece

Recently Dovetail joined hands and hearts to assist in reforesting fire-devastated northeastern Minnesota, while also sharing the message of Forest to Tap (F2T), a program promoting the link between good water and sustainable forestry. We visited the communities recently impacted by the Brimson Complex wildfires in Saint Louis County and handed out seedlings of hope.

Read the full article here!

Dovetail Partners Celebrates the Outcomes of the 9th American Forest Congress

The 9th American Forest Congress was held from July 15-18, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Dovetail celebrates the leadership and impact of the Congress in recognizing the forest-based values that strengthen communities, economies, and ecosystems. In advance of the Congress, Dovetail Partners released our priorities to inform the finalizing of the Principles and Resolutions at the event. We are pleased to see these priorities reflected in the final Principles and Resolutions of the 9th American Forest Congress.



To Read the Full Reflection Click Here!

Derecho challenges Northwood’s spirits

By: Kathleen Preece

Originally published in the Minnesota Women’s Woodland Network July 2025 Newsletter.

“Derecho.” The word sounds like it should be describing a summer drink; perhaps crushed ice blended with lime and pineapple and blended with coconut milk for taste; sipped while overlooking your wooded landscape?

Regrettably, a derecho is not a summer refreshment. Miraculously, no one was killed in Bemidji from the force of the storm itself, but damage to the area was extensive.

Read the full article here!

Welcome Cole-Thomas!

Fall 2025 Intern

Cole-Thomas Johnson, a recent graduate of Lawrence University with a degree in Economics, originally from Atlanta, Georgia has joined the Dovetail Partners team as our Renewable Energy Policy and Economic Research Intern. During his time at Lawrence, he was also a member of the Men’s Ice Hockey team. He is particularly drawn to Dovetail Partners for our focus on land-use rights, sustainable forestry, and renewable energy—areas that strongly align with his academic and professional interests. He values Dovetail’s unique integration of economic and policy analysis in advancing sustainable environmental solutions and is eager to contribute to research at the intersection of economics, policy, and energy.