Western
This FRA Region, managed by Lindsay Warness, Western Region Manager, serves members in the western states. FRA’s Western Region addresses the improvement of wood fiber quality, forest biomass utilization, and wood fiber transportation safety and efficiency. The Western Region also works with allied associations to defend access to the western forest resource and increase workforce connections throughout the states. The Region hosts two annual Region Meetings and compiles monthly reports on clean air/green power, and fiber consumption and inventory.
Featured Resource
In It for the Long Haul
Leadership
Lindsay Warness
Western Region Manager
States in this Region
- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Idaho
- Montana
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Oregon
- Utah
- Washington
- Wyoming
Resources
25-TR-12 Innovative Shifts in K-12 Education: Preparing Students for Technical Careers in the Pacific Northwest
25-TR-13 Forest Operator Industry Recognized Credential: Building the Future Logging Workforce
25-TR-08 Oregon Clean Truck Rule | Diesel Emissions Mitigation Grants
25-TR-07 Branded Recruitment: Why Your Company is Struggling to Find Workers – And How to Fix It
24-TR-31 Drone – USFS Salmon Project
24-TR-30 California Air Resources Board
25-SA-03 Lesión Abdominal y en la Mano
25-SA-03 Hand and Abdominal Injury
23-S-14 Lone Worker Policies
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23-S-13 Immersion Foot
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23-S-11 Hand Sprain/Strain- During Clean Up
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23-S-09 Emergency Action Plans
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New Mexico
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in New Mexico
Oregon
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Oregon
Montana
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Montana Montana has 25.5 million…
Western
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in the Western Region
Utah
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Utah
Washington
Quick Facts on Forest Carbon in Washington
FRA Western Region Spring 2025 Meeting Presentations
Developing the Future Workforce: A Public-Private Partnership
Innovation- Sunrise for the Timber Industry
Industry and Indigenous Collaboration for Mutual Success
Western Region and Canada Log Supply, Markets, and Policy Trends
Elections 2024: Predicting the Unpredictable
June 2025 Fiber Report
June 2025 Clean Air & Green Energy Report
May 2025 Fiber Report
May 2025 Clean Air & Green Energy Report
April 2025 Fiber Report
April 2025 Clean Air & Green Energy Report
Keeping the Wood Supply Chain Moving: Why the Safe Routes Act is Essential for Forestry Transportation
Transporting raw forest products (logs, pulpwood, wood chips, and biomass) from…
Behind the Wheel of the Forest Products Industry
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Meeting America’s Forestry Workforce Needs
Why the Jobs in the Woods Act Matters Now The August…
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