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WIGLEY HONORED FOR ACTIVISM
RELEASE: March 11, 2005
CONTACT: Neil Ward (301/838-9385)
nward@forestresources.org
 Rockville,
MD – The Forest Resources Association awarded its 2005 National
Outstanding Forestry Activist Award to Tim Wigley, of PAC/West
Communications, in Wilsonville, Oregon, for his leading role in building
support for the President’s Healthy Forests Initiative with the public and
policymakers.
FRA Chairman Rick Frost congratulated Tim at FRA’s 2005 Awards Dinner,
March 7 in New Orleans, Louisiana, presenting him with a plaque and cash
award, commenting, “on behalf of those who rely on the ability to harvest
trees for a livelihood, we thank you for leading this campaign.”
Tim thanked Rick and noted, “I feel a bit awkward, because so many people
worked behind the scenes, unseen, that really deserve it, and some of them
are in this room. We have the high ground; we have the moral high ground.
We should always seize it and never apologize for it.”
Tim Wigley has advocated forestry in political campaigns throughout the
U.S., but his most valuable contribution was the development of Project
Protect in 2003, a campaign to support the current Administration’s
Healthy Forests Initiative and to turn it into effective national
legislation.
Tim successfully secured funding for Project Protect, a coalition of
resource-based communities and individuals urging Congress to reduce the
threat of catastrophic fires in the West. He analyzed public perceptions
about wildfire, forest health, and active forest management, turning these
attitudes in effective pro-forestry messages. He then built relationships
with allied forest products and grassroots groups to build support for a
legislative solution to wildfire crisis management and built bipartisan
support in Congress to introduce and pass the Healthy Forests Restoration
Act.
As Representative Richard Pombo (R-California) puts it, “Tim’s efforts in
leading the grassroots campaign, Project Protect, without question helped
position the Healthy Forest Restoration Act for successful passage in the
U.S. Congress. His efforts in public opinion research and utilizing that
information to properly message and position the issue made a clear
difference in this always contentious battle.”
Donations from 15 FRA members support FRA’s Forestry Activist Award:
Blomberg Logging & Trucking, Bowater, E.D. Bessey & Son, Fiber Industry
Consultants, Forest Investment Associates, Godfrey Lumber, Green Bay
Packaging, MeadWestvaco, Paperloop, Ponderay Newsprint, Potlatch
Corporation, The Price Companies, Smurfit Stone Container, Temple Inland
Forest Products, and Weyerhaeuser.
Candidates for FRA’s National Outstanding Forestry Activist Award, which
recognizes exemplary activism in support of America’s forest products
industry, are nominated following regional competitions.
The Forest Resources Association Inc. is a nonprofit trade
association concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of
forest products and their transport from woods to mill. FRA represents
wood consumers, independent logging contractors, and wood dealers, as well
as businesses providing products and services to the forest resource-based
industries.
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Caption for photo: “FRA Chairman Rick Frost (right) congratulates
Tim Wigley, recognized as FRA’s National Outstanding Forestry Activist for
2005.”
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