The Alabama Forest Products Industry

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The Alabama Forest Products Industry

• Teachers Conservation Workshop
• July 13, 2009

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Link OneThe Landowner

• Landowners make up the backbone of the forest
  industry.
• 22 million acres of Alabama are forested
• 95 of our forests are privately owned.

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Link OneThe Landowner

• 71 of states forests owned by non-industrial,
  private landowners.
• Manage for a variety of objectives
• Industrial lands no longer owned by forest
  products industry

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Link TwoThe Forester

• Foresters provide professional assistance to
  landowners.
• The State Board of Registration for Foresters
  regulates the professional practice of forestry.
• There are about 2000 professional foresters in
  Alabama.

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Link ThreeThe Logger

• Loggers are the people in the woods who harvest
  timber.
• Independent business men
• Own several million dollars of equipment and
  employ between 5-10 people.

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Link ThreeThe Logger

• Alabama Loggers Council
• Professional Logging Manager
• Implement Best Management Practices

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Link FourThe Forest Products Industry

• Many types of consuming mills turn Alabamas
  timber resources into the products we use every
  day
• Pulp and paper mills
• Solid wood products
• Secondary Manufacturing
• Alternative products

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Link FourThe Forest Products Industry

• 1,100 manufacturing firms
• Employ 170,000 Alabamians
• 10 of work force 4.2 billion in wages
• Generates over 13 billion for states economy

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Link FiveThe Alabama Forestry Association
Alabama Pulp Paper Council Alabama Loggers
Council
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Link FiveThe Partners

• Alabama Tree Farm Program
• Alabama TREASURE Forests Association
• Alabama Forest Landowners Association

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Link SixThe Alabama Forestry Commission

• State agency responsible for
• Protecting the forests
• Fire
• Insects, disease
• Inventory and analysis

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Link SixThe Alabama Forestry Commission

• Helping landowners
• Management plans
• Prescribed burns
• Educating the public
• Camps
• Workshops

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Link SevenThe Alabama Depart. of Environmental
Management

• Regulating forestry and industrial activities
• Protecting the environment

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Link EightEducational Partners

• Auburn School of Forestry Wildlife Sciences
• Alabama AM
• Comprehensive approach to education and research
  in

research in renewable natural resource
manage-ment and utilization that addresses the
diversity of future challenges and opportunities
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Link EightEducational Partners

• Alabama Cooperative Extension System
• FFA, 4-H
• PLM Program
• Landowner education

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Link NineThe U.S. Forest Service

• Federal Agency founded in 1905 as part of USDA
• Originally established to manage federal
  forestland
• Encompasses over 193 million acres, mostly in
  Western U.S.
• 667,000 acres in Alabama

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Link NineThe U.S. Forest Service

• Today the agency has to take into account the
  many different ideas about forest management
• Timber management, recreation, aesthetics,
  environmental quality, wildlife
• Fire fighting and forest protection are two of
  there most visible missions

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Foresters
Landowners
Loggers
Forest Products Industry
Alabama Forestry Association
Alabama Forestry Commission
Auburn University
ACES
Alabama AM
Forest Service
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