The www.foretpriveefrancaise.com web site is jointly produced by three organisations :

• The Centre national professionnel de la propriété forestière or CNPPF (National Professional Centre for Forest Owners) and its forest utilities department, the Institut pour le développement forestier or IDF (Institute for Forest Development),
• Forestiers privés de France (the national federation of forest owners unions),
• and the Union de la coopération forestière française (French Union for Forestry Cooperation).

These three institutions are the national umbrella organisations for three "families" of professional bodies that act in complementary areas to support the sylvicultural activities of private forest owners. These "families" are :

• Forest development organisations : the Centres régionaux de la propriété forestière or CRPF (regional forest owners' centres) and associations for forest development ;
• Private foresters' unions ;
• Forestry cooperatives and other joint management bodies.

To offer better-coordinated and more efficient services to private foresters and their forests - which cover three quarters of all woodland areas in France - these different professional bodies have developed a common identity under the name of "Forêt Privée Française".