FRA ANNOUNCES CHILEAN FOREST OPERATIONS TOUR

RELEASE: June 12, 2006

CONTACT: Neil Ward (301/838-9385)
nward@forestresources.org

Rockville, MD – The Forest Resources Association will host a week-long tour of forest operations in Chile, November 4-12, 2006, and is now taking registrations.

This intensive field tour will provide foresters, loggers, and others interested in sustainable forest management with a field-level exposure to the operational and systemic factors, as well as basic resource characteristics, that mark the Chilean industry’s value chain. There is space on the Tour for 37 participants.

FRA has already organized successful tours to Sweden, Finland, Brazil, and New Zealand. “Our past tours have always shown us new ways of thinking about innovation and system change,” commented FRA Director of Communications Neil Ward, who will lead the Chilean Tour together with FRA Honorary Member John Manz. “Seeing how other managers deal with the realities of their resource can give us fresh eyes for our own operational challenges.”

Chile’s forest industry, based mainly on plantation-grown radiata pine and eucalyptus, is growing rapidly and has been very innovative, both in research and operations. FRA’s tour will focus on the forest operations side but will touch on all aspects of the value chain supporting the industry.

The registration fee for FRA members, which includes all expenses, including roundtrip airfare from Miami, is $3,495. The non-member registration fee is $4,000. By special arrangement, members of the Association of Consulting Foresters and the Canadian Woodlands Forum may register at the FRA member rate. To reserve a space, FRA requires a $1,200 deposit from each registrant by August 31, and full payment by September 30.

For more information, contact Neil Ward at nward@forestresources.org, 301/838-9385, and ask for a Chilean Forest Operations Tour Prospectus, or visit www.forestresources.org.

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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