Creating New Forestry Markets: the How-to's and What-for's of Wood-based Economic Development
OVERVIEW: Forestry meetings often highlight the need for expanding wood product markets. Yet, many professionals lack insight into the process behind creating or expanding these markets. Discover the collaborative effort involving economic developers, site selection consultants, and forestry stakeholders in the wood-based economic development process through this four-part webinar series.
AUDIENCE: This series targets forestry and natural research professionals and allies interested in economic development within forestry. It's also beneficial for economic developers or related professionals unfamiliar with forestry-specific development.
COST: Free of charge.
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Abundant forest resources, in the southern states of the U.S. and across the nation, are under-utilized creating fantastic opportunities to expand the forest industry and create more jobs- especially in rural areas. Economic developers may not be aware of the important economic impact that forestry already contributes to their state as well as the opportunities to expand.. In t... more info >> |
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This presentation offers an overview of the forestry economic development ecosystem, covering various organizations and personnel involved. Participants will gain insights into market creation, mill closures, and more. The webinar will also include an overview of ways to identify new companies for mill construction or expansion, along with short- and long-term economic developm... more info >> |
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When creating new forestry markets, economic developers will also focus on the available workforce. Mills and wood products plants need employees who are similar to employees from other manufacturing industries, which can be a challenge. However, in forestry, there is also a critical need for loggers, forestry technicians, truck drivers and more- essentially, the people who wil... more info >> |
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In this presentation, participants will learn about the fundamentals of business recruitment and the essentials for wood-based industry site selection. Recruiting businesses, especially wood-based businesses requires evaluations of possible industrial properties or sites, an analysis of the forest inventory, knowledge of existing industry locations as well as workforce and more... more info >> |
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This presentation, is the first of four webinars in the "Creating New Markets" series and offers an overview of forestry and it’s wood-based economic development ecosystem and discussing its perspective & importance within the South. Participants will gain insights into business expansion factors, economic development structure affecting the industry, and understanding the im... more info >> |
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