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RESOLUTION
ON ORGANIZATIONS PROMOTING
ANTI-RESOURCE POLICIES
WHEREAS
the Forest Resources Association Inc. Board of Directors recognizes
that the best means to maintain and improve environmental quality
lies in balanced, market-oriented approaches based on sound science;
WHEREAS
the forest products industry is a crucial part of the United States'
economic base, contributing approximately $109 billion to the U.S.
gross national product (GNP) and employing over 1.9 million people;
WHEREAS
each year businesses, workers, families, and communities dependent
upon the forest for their livelihoods support our nation's economy,
not only as producers but as consumers of products;
WHEREAS
some organizations claiming to represent "environmental" interests
have attempted to force free-market enterprises to adopt product
procurement policies which these organizations present as "environmentally
friendly" but which are, in fact, based on unsound science and which
would interfere with true forest sustainability;
WHEREAS
some free-market enterprises have adopted, or partially adopted,
these counterproductive procurement policies while disregarding
their effects on components of the supply chain or on forest sustainability;
and whereas these and other free-market enterprises have provided
financial support to the "environmental" organizations attempting
to impose such policies;
WHEREAS
the implementation of these procurement policies and support for
the "environmental" organizations attempting to impose them directly
assault the economic basis of the businesses, workers, families,
and communities which depend on forests and sustain these forests'
values;
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Forest Resources Association
Inc. Board of Directors urge FRA members to present proactively
the economic, social, and environmental reality of the issue to
free-market enterprises which have adopted such damaging procurement
policies, or which have supported "environmental" organizations
advocating such policies;
FURTHERMORE,
that the Forest Resources Association Inc. Board of Directors proactively
urge its members to take notice of the impact of such enterprises'
procurement policies, and to call the attention of the public to
the impact of these and other enterprises' financial support for
these policies' advocates, on their communities' livelihood, on
the national economy, and on forest sustainability;
FURTHERMORE,
that the Forest Resources Association Inc. Board of Directors direct
FRA staff to develop appropriate documents and materials to assist
its members in advancing this Resolution.
Board
of Directors
Forest Resources Association Inc.
December 28, 2001
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