The National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry (NCSSF) is an ongoing program of the National Council for Science and the Environment's Science Solutions Initiative. NCSSF provides practical information and approaches to serve the needs of forest managers, practitioners and policymakers to improve sustainable forestry.

NCSSF's mission is to improve the scientific basis for the design, conduct and evaluation of sustainable forest practices in the United States. NCSSF sponsors work of the highest technical quality that is relevant to the urgent needs of forest managers, practitioners and policymakers.