SELECT YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE

Here are some groups you might speak to:

  • Business and Industry Groups and Professional Societies

  • State level trade associations (all kinds)

  • Local and regional Chamber of Commerce

  • Organizations and other economic development groups

  • Individual companies with business relationships with forest products industry: utilities, banks, insurance

  • State-wide union leadership
    - forest products industry and related unions
    - unions with indirect economic ties to forest products industry
    - state education association
    - state-county employees association
    - longshoremen
    - business trades council
    - operating engineers

  • Professional societies

News Media

  • Professional press groups
    - state press association
    - local/regional professional press groups

  • Individual media

  • Publishers and owners

  • Managing editors, bureau managers, and news directors

  • Editorial section editors and writers

  • Business page editors, reporters, and special-beat reporters

  • Freelance writers specializing in forest industry articles

  • Writers who cover agriculture or the environment

Forest User Groups, Sportsmen's Organizations and Allied Citizens Groups

  • Sportsmen's groups
    - snowmobilers
    - 4-wheel drive
    - off-road vehicle
    - hunting and fishing organizations
    - recreational vehicle groups

  • Service organizations (Jaycee, Rotary, Lions)

  • School boards

  • Administrators and curriculum professionals

  • State PTA and local chapters of PTA

  • 4-H and FFA

  • College leaders
    - School presidents
    - Deans-professional schools of business, forestry, and journalism
    - Select faculty of professional schools

Church groups

Garden Clubs

Government

  • Congressional delegation and staff

  • Elected state-wide officeholders

  • Appointed leaders, members and staff of state agencies, boards and commissions

  • State political party leadership

  • Federal and state agencies

Forest Products Industry and Timberland Owners

  • Forest products companies

  • Company owners and senior operating management

  • Industry trade association officers and staff executives

  • Company and association public affairs staff (governmental affairs/public relations)

  • Company employees and families

  • Contractors and suppliers to industry (logging, trucking, road construction, equipment manufacturers and dealers, service firms)

  • Industry timberland owners

  • Private non-industrial tree farmers

Environmental and Recreational Organizations

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