Forest Products Utilization

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Forest Products Utilization Marketing
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Purpose

• One cog on the healthy forest, healthy
  environment wheel
• Improve utilization of resource
• Expand or enhance existing markets
• Develop new markets

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Clients

• Manufacturers
• Loggers
• Foresters
• Landowners

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Direction

• Most time spent on policy issues
• Balance of time dedicated to economic development

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Policy Advisements

• BMP manual
• Conservation Easements
• State Timber Sale policy
• Queen Annes County anti-clearcutting
• Talbot County FCA
• Renewable Portfolio Standard
• Delmarva Fox Squirrel
• Wetland Indicators
• Truck Weights
• Workmans Compensation
• Blackwater Refuge expansion

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Activities

• Industry Survey Directory
• Pellet Mill
• Sawdust Dryer
• Working Woodlot Initiative
• Poultry Litter
• Ethanol
• Waste to Energy
• Fumigation Center
• Dry Kiln Feasibility
• Forests for the Bay
• Master Logger
• FPO Licensing

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Single Most Important Role

• Conduit and liaison to resources
• I may not know the answer, but I know somebody
  who does

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Government Partners

• USDA Forest Service
• RCD, NRCS, DOE
• SCDs, DBED, MDE, MEA
• Various local agencies (eg, PZ, Highway, Tax
  Assessments, etc.)

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Private Partners

• FRA, AFPA, AFF, ALC
• AFI, MFA, PSF, MLG, MTF
• etc.

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Funding

• USFS-EAP (historically) primary funding source
• Individual targeted grants are now the order of
  the day

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Accomplishments

• Improved BMP manual
• DFS HCP effort renewed
• Local bad forestry policies put down
• More engaged industry
• Reduced Worker Comp rates
• Dialogue with SHA/DOT/MSP on trucks

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Future Goals

• Pellet Mill
• Biomass plant
• Closed-Loop value-added chain
• Geospatial logger reference guide
• Industry Newsletter