FRA Appalachian Region
FRA’s Appalachian Region, managed by Rick Meyer, serves FRA members throughout the stretch of mountainous area bordered by Pennsylvania, Missouri, Tennessee, and western North Carolina. It focuses on improving timber harvesting and transportation safety, efficiency, and environmental performance. Trucking safety and logging and trucking labor challenges are current issues of concern. The Region conducts a two-day Annual Meeting in the fall.
Contact the FRA Appalachian Region
Jeff Jenkins, Appalachian Region Consultant
Forest Resources Association
1177 Sugar Camp Road
Wheelersburg, OH 45694
Ph: (740) 352-6425
[email protected]
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI) announced a grant award from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) designed to engage landowners in West Virginia on forest management that benefits bird species.
The video below from Tennessee Wild Side featuring Thompson Appalachian Hardwoods in Huntland, TN and also the TN Dept. of Agriculture Division of Forestry Forest Inventory & Analysis Unit highlights the importance of a family-owned sawmill in rural Tennessee as well as the ways the Tennessee Division of Forestry FIA Unit provides the information needed for our mills to plan for our resource today and tomorrow.
The award recognizes the packaging company’s commitment to responsible forestry.