LOG A LOAD FOR KIDS® RAISES NEARLY $2 MILLION IN 2005

RELEASE: February 3, 2006

CONTACT: Linda Gibson
301/838-9385
lrgibson@forestresources.org

(Rockville, MD) -- Loggers from 26 states, working in coalition with forest products businesses and forestry equipment dealers, raised nearly $2 million for local Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) hospitals during the 2005 Log A Load For Kids campaign. Since its beginning in 1988, Log A Load For Kids programs have collectively raised over $24 million for approximately 70 local CMN hospitals. “Each tree and dollar invested into this noble cause brings that much more growth into the future of a child,” says Log A Load For Kids Advisory Group Chairman, Sam Cooke.

He adds that “growth in a child's future is growth in each of our future. For children are the future of tomorrow. Thank you for caring about the future and the children.”

Log A Load For Kids is an annual campaign which encourages loggers and others to donate the value of a load of logs, or any amount, to local non-profit Children’s Miracle Network hospitals.
Total funds raised by 27 participating states during 2005 follow:

LOG A LOAD FOR KIDS FUNDRAISING TOTALS – 2005
Alabama $300,000
Arkansas 359,000
California 19,035
Florida 102,151
Georgia 48,737
Indiana 9,674
Kentucky 36,000
Louisiana 125,850
Maine 33,200
Maryland 6,000
Michigan 12,229
Minnesota 23,000
Mississippi 31,000
Montana 18,113
New York 14,928
North Carolina 130,307
Ohio 60,000
Oklahoma 3,061
Oregon 70,829
Pennsylvania 16,700
South Carolina 51,486
Tennessee 37,622
Virginia 156,167
Washington 60,000
West Virginia 125,000
Wisconsin 56,040

 NATIONAL TOTAL $1,906,129

The Forest Resources Association Inc. is pleased to be the National Sponsor of the Log A Load For Kids program. FRA 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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