Dear Coos County Wood Products TRC member,
Again, thanks for participating in this committee project. Please visit our blog at this website for detailed information about the progress of this committee---
http://extension.unh.edu/blogs/woodtrc/
On the blog you will find both a short and long version of the summary of the December 13th TRC meeting. You will also find copies of the powerpoint presentations given by Brad Wyman, Sarah Smith and Matt Tansey. In addition, Steve Roberge was working in the background during the meeting to identify appropriate websites for your reference based upon the committee discussion. You will find his list of these important websites on the blog. Please take time to read and consider these references and documents.
At the December 13th meeting several of you volunteered to work on various subcommittees. Below is a list of the subcommitees and the people involved. If you are not on a subcommittee yet, but are willing to help please contact me or one of the subcommittee members. The Chair would like each subcommittee to make some progress before the next committee meeting on January 17th by trying to come up with answers to these questions for each subcommittee topic---
1) What do we need to know?
2) Who can find out?
3) Where can we find out?
The following subcommittees were established to investigate and develop further action planning for each of the five key elements before the next committee meeting on January 17th.---
1. Forest products development center:
Bill Andreas
Allen Bouthillier
Ron Bugeau
2. Fiber sustainability:
Matt Tansey
Kevin Evans
Marty Driscoll
Sarah Smith
Jill Kelly
Will Abbott
3. Energy:
Don Tase
Roy Amey
4. Market diversity:
Bill Andreas
Allen Bouthillier
Ron Bugeau
5. Existing business and labor:
Sarah Smith
Bob Perras
Ron Bugeau
Send me any material you wish to have posted on the blog for the benefit of all members.
Following is a list of TRC members and their email addresses. Please feel free to collaborate with other members between meetings. If you have any questions please contact me or Brad Wyman. ----
Will Abbott wabbott@forestsociety.org
Roy Amey (no email)
Bill Andreas wandreas@bedco.org
Allen Bouthillier ablogging@wildblue.net
Phil Bryce p_bryce@dred.state.nh.us
Marty Driscoll catbow@ncia.net
Thad Guldbrandsen tcguldbrandsen@plymouth.edu
Barry Kelley wml@ncia.net
Mike Kelley (no email)
Jill Kelly jkelly@nhfgd.org
Bob Perras perraslumber@ne.rr.com
Sarah Smith sarah.smith@unh.edu
Jasen Stock jstock@nhtoa.org
Sam Stoddard sstoddard@ceunh.unh.edu
Don Tase dtase@uplandforestry.com
Jim Wagner JamesTWagner@yahoo.com
Brad Wyman abwyman@ncia.net
Kevin Evans kevin.s.evans@dartmouth.edu
Ron Bugeau rbugeau@hancocklumber.com
Dave Atkinson datkinson@wausaupaper.com
Katie Stuart kstuart@fs.fed.us
Peter Riviere cedc@ncia.net
Jeff Hayes jhayes@ncia.net
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Sam