AF&PA names conservation award winners.The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), Washington D.C., USA, has made several awards: * 2003 Wildlife Stewardship Industry Cooperator Award to Mark Johns, wildlife biologist at the North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. Wildlife Resources Commission and coordinator for North Carolina Partners in Flight. * 2003 Forest Management Award to Temple-Inland Inc., Austin, Texas, for its Conservation Forest Program--a formal program developed to identify, conserve, and enhance Temple-Inland's forests. * 2003 Wildlife Stewardship Award for air Individual to Brian Kernohan, senior ecological specialist at the Boise Corp. The award recognizes an individual employed by an AF&PA member company who has primary responsibility for a program or project in wildlife or fisheries management. During his tenure with Boise, Kernohan has been responsible for the management of a tour and a half year, US$ 1.8 million ecosystem management demonstration project. * 2003 Wildlife Stewardship Award in the category of Industry Cooperator to NatureServe, a non profit conservation group recognized for working to assist the Sustainable Forestry Board (SFB SFB Sonderforschungsbereich SFB Sender Freies Berlin (German Radio and TV Station) SFB Star Fleet Battles (game) SFB San Francisco Ballet SFB Society for Biomaterials SFB ScaleFactor Band ) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative The Sustainable Forestry Initiative is a program to certify forests to insure they are being managed in a sustainable manner. SFI was started in 1994 by members of the American Forest and Paper Association. [R] (SFI SFI Sustainable Forestry Initiative (forest certification program of AF&PA) SFI Santa Fe Institute (scientific research in Santa Fe, New Mexico) SFI Science Foundation Ireland SFI Six Figure Income ) program to understand NatureServe's scientific method for evaluating imperiled species and habitats. * AF&PA awarded Plum Creek Timber Plum Creek Timber (NYSE: PCL) is the largest private landowner in the United States. Most of its lands were originally purchased as timberland.[1] Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Plum Creek was spun off from Burlington Resources as a master limited the Wildlife Stewardship Group Award in recognition of the Swam Valley Grizzly Bear grizzly bear or grizzly, large, powerful North American brown bear, characterized by gray-streaked, or grizzled, fur. Grizzlies are 6 to 8 ft (180–250 cm) long, stand 3 1-2 to 4 ft (105–120 cm) at the humped shoulder, and weigh up to Consecration Agreement for Montana. AF&PA's Wildlife Stewardship Awards recognizes significant achievements by wildlife and fisheries biologists and managers working for the forest products industry and cooperators in wildlife or fisheries programs on private forests or a (SFI) participant's forest. |
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