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The U.S. wood supply system is the largest and most highly developed in the world, providing the raw material that furnishes our country’s seventh largest industrial sector: forest products. Overregulation threatens this system’s ability to continue to serve both its economic and environmental goals.
Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:42
Creating a Profile of Logging Businesses in the Lake States
by Tim O’Hara | FRA Manager, Lake States Region and Policy Communications
Registration is now live for the FRA 2018 Lake States Fall Meeting, taking place this year September 17-19 in Wausau, WI.
Tuesday, 12 June 2018 16:09
Member Spotlight: Terry Logging, Inc.
by Rick Meyer | FRA Appalachian & Southwide Regions Manager
Chris Terry, an FRA member and the owner of Terry Logging, Inc. in Morehead, Kentucky, had a high-school ambition to someday be the president of his own logging company. He began cutting and selling firewood at age 16, moved onto pine posts at 18, and then to logging.
The Wood Supply Research Institute (WSRI) recently commissioned the first comprehensive assessment of the value of Master Logger Certification (MLC) programs in the wood supply system. The characteristics that define an MLC program include:
The Wood Supply Research Institute (WSRI) just held its 20th annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. A lot can change in anyone’s world in 20 years. No organization is immune from the need to wrestle with and adapt to changing perspectives, realities, and expectations.