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2009
Annual
Meeting Exhibitors
 American
Forest Management, Inc. has 41 offices in 16 states with
250+ employees and manages almost four million acres of
timberland. AFM's operates throughout the Southeast,
Appalachian, Lake States and Northeast Regions of the US. AFM
offers land management, investment analysis, real estate
services, appraisals, environmental/wildlife management, and
technical/data
 ArborGen, LLC. is the
largest supplier of pine and hardwood reforestation in the
world. With over fifty years of tree breeding experience, our
SuperTree Seedling employees are passionate about exceeding our
customers' expectations. Come visit our booth and let's talk
trees. We want to grow with you!
Bandit Industries When quality counts, industry
professionals count on Bandit. Bandit is an industry leader in
developing innovative chippers, grinders, and waste recyclers.
Since introducing the original 12" capacity Model 100 Brush
Bandit chipper in 1983, Mike Morey Sr. has launched his company
and the cuddly raccoon known as 'Bandit' into industry
powerhouse status in what seemed like the blink of an eye.
Ben Meadows More than forty years ago, a young forester
named Ben Meadows became increasingly frustrated with the
difficulties forestry professionals encountered in obtaining
field equipment. It was often necessary to go to a variety of
sources to find what he needed.
Ben solved the problem by
founding a company to supply foresters and engineers with the
finest equipment available. His good name was all that he had
back in 1956, so he named the business after himself.
CellFor is the world's
first commercial-scale supplier of high yielding, varietal
seedlings for reforestation. CellFor has extended decades of
traditional tree improvement work to produce fast-growing trees
having highly desirable characteristics. CellFor uses a proven
and patented propagation technology based on high volume, tissue
culture techniques.
The
Davis-Garvin Agency is
a full service insurance agency specializing in coverages for
the Forest Products Industry. Now in our 27th year,
we provide Commercial, Personal, and Health insurance coverage,
as well as, payroll and personnel management services.
Headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina we have branch offices
in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
www.DavisGarvin.com.
Ecological Solutions, Inc. is a
natural resources consulting firm offering a wide range of
services designed to provide our clients with solutions to
environmental concerns and guidance in the regulatory permitting
process.
As a small
company, we are dedicated to growing personal relationships with
our clients, providing our team with an in depth understanding
of their individual needs.
 The
Georgia Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) program is a
comprehensive system of principles, objectives, and performance
measures that integrates the perpetual growing and harvesting of
trees with the protection of wildlife, plants, soils, and water
quality. SFI is based on the premise that responsible
environmental practices can be integrated to the benefit of
landowners, shareholders, customers, and the people they serve.
For more information, call Donna Gallaher at 706-542-7691 or
visit
www.sfi-georgia.org
 The
Georgia Farm Credit
Associations have been loaning money to farmers and
rural homeowners throughout Georgia for more than 85 years. All
types of loans for agriculture-real estate, equipment,
livestock, timber, operating needs, crop production, home
construction, mortgages, refinances...and a whole lot more!
 Georgia Forestry
Association,
one of the oldest conservation organizations in the United
States, was founded in 1907. At that time, tree farming was a
family tradition. Land was passed from generation to generation
and with it, a love of the land that became our heritage.
Through the years, GFA has worked with landowners in protecting
their property rights and adopting sound land management
practices to ensure that our forests continue to provide clean
air, clean water, soil conservation, wildlife habitat,
recreation and products that we all use every day.
The
Georgia Forestry Commission provides leadership,
service, and education in the protection and conservation of
Georgia's forest resources so that healthy, sustainable forests
will produce clean air, clean water and abundant products.
Georgia Forestry Today
Magazine is published bi-monthly by the Georgia Contractor,
LLC, for the Georgia Forestry Association. It is provided
free-of-charge to the members or the association. Other
recipients include owners, and subscribers of the Georgia
Forestry Commission, as well as suppliers and manufacturers of
forest-related products and services.
 Georgia's Tree Farm Program
has grown to encompass 1606 Certified Tree Farms on nearly 2
million acres. In 2006, Georgia's Tree Farm Program
restructured under the leadership of a 12 member Executive
Committee (9 Volunteer Inspectors and 3 Tree Farmers). Twenty
District and Region Chairs across the state play a critical role
in accomplishing Georgia's Tree Farm program goals. The 2008
Chairman is Mr. Ed Withrow with West Fraser Timber Company in
Warm Springs, GA.
 International Forest Company is celebrating 25 years of
producing container seedlings for landowners throughout the
Southeast. The company produces loblolly, slash, shortleaf,
virginia and longleaf pine as well as oaks and various hardwood
tree seedlings. The nursery is located in Moultrie, Georgia.
LandMark
Systems, a General Services Administration (GSA) approved
contractor, is a leading provider of technical products/services
to the forestry and natural resource markets. LandMark products
include rugged handhelds, GPS systems, GIS and forest inventory
software, and timber cruising tools. We also provide technical
support, training; GPS/GIS mapping, and GIS consulting services.
LandMark Systems is the developer of the patented Real-Time
Inventory (RTI) system. This technology allows foresters to load
existing GPS and GIS basemap data, create cruise grids, and
navigate to plot center. The cruise data can then be spatially
linked to the plot locations easily in a GIS. LandMark Systems
holds key partnership agreements with Tripod Data Systems,
Trimble Navigation, and Haglof, Inc. Call today for a free
product and services guide!
Meek's
Farm & Nursery, Inc. is a primary producer of containerized
pine seedlings. Improved Longleaf, Advanced Generation Loblolly
and Slash Pines are produced using state of the art growing
systems and a family oriented commitment to quality and customer
satisfaction. We operate the largest family owned container pine
nursery in the South with annual production approaching 13
million trees.
 NCP
Coatings Inc. is a
formulator and manufacturer of custom and specified industrial,
military, and specialty paint. Founded in 1948 by C.M. Hannewyk
II as Niles Chemical Paint Co., our name has always been
synonymous with quality and innovation. Now, with second and
third generation owners, we take pride in the family atmosphere
that has been dedicated to customer needs and satisfaction. NCP
Coatings Inc. has been formulating and supplying a complete line
of top-quality products to industrial and specialty markets, as
well as government agencies since the 1950's, and is proud to be
one of the most successful family-owned paint manufacturers in
the country.
 Plum
Creek
is the
largest and most geographically diverse private landowner in the
nation with more than 7 million acres of timberlands in 19
states. Plum Creek owns over 784,000 acres of timberland in
Georgia. We practice sustainable forestry; all of our lands
have been third party certified under the Sustainable Forestry
Initiative. Plum Creek is publicly traded on the NYSE under the
ticker symbol PCL.
 Project Learning Tree
is an award-winning environmental
education program designed for teachers and other educators
working with students in pre-K through grade 12. It uses the
forest as a "window" into natural and built environments,
helping people gain an awareness and knowledge of the world
around them, as well as their place within it. Since its
introduction in the early 1970s, PLT has been recognized as one
of the premier environmental education programs in the world.
 Superior Forestry Service, Inc. is the largest
reforestation contractor working through out the year - in the
eastern United States. We provide planting, herbicide
application, ROW maintenance, pre-commercial thinning, boundary
marking, and other labor services. SFS can provide crews for
all your labor needs; we are fully insured and in compliance
with MSPA and all DOL, INS and IRS regulations. References
available. Visit our website!
SUPERTRAK
is a Florida based corporation
that has supported and supplied the forest industry with custom
reforestation machinery for 20 years. SUPERTRAK, Inc. has been a
major contributor in the forestry arena not only in the state of
Florida, but throughout the world, stretching as far as
Venezuela in South America and all the way down under to
Australia. In recent years SUPERTRAK, Inc. has specialized its
custom manufacturing to supply brush cutting machinery for the
fuel reduction side of the forestry industry in efforts to keep
in close proximity with the changing regulations in the industry
as well as blending with market, development, and forestry
trends. SUPERTRAK, Inc. offers a variety of multi-purpose custom
manufactured carriers equipped with brush cutters to support a
clientele base that ranges from government entities and
municipalities, to heavy equipment dealers, to the average
person looking to start a business in vegetation and forestry
management. Our products combine state of the art technology and
engineering with custom design and manufacturing to offer the
most efficient means of vegetation management for the fuel
reduction and forestry industries. Please visit us at
www.SUPERTRAK.com.
The
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural
Resources, established in 1906, is the oldest
existing forest resources program in the South. Our
graduates occupy major leadership positions with private and
public forest resource organizations and our research and
service programs contribute to the enviable advancement of
forest resources of Georgia, the region, nation, and world.
 Weyerhaeuser's Quail Ridge Nursery, established in Aiken,
SC in 1986 serves the reforestation and land enhancement needs
of landowners, forestry consultants, and
 tree planting vendors
in Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida. Along with unmatched
customer service, "Faster, Straighter, Stronger" are tree
qualities you can expect when you buy Premium Seedlings from
Weyerhaeuser.
Yancey Pioneer
is a full-service
provider of agricultural, forestry and recycling equipment with
fourteen Machine Parts & Service Centers serving our ag,
forestry and recycling customers across Georgia. Our extensive
product lines include Caterpillar®, Challenger®,
Prentice®,
Peterson-Pacific®, Spra-Coupe®,
Cummins®, Woodsman®,
Doppstadt US®, Ag-Chem®,
Sunflower®, SuperTrak®,
CTR®, CSI®,
Rotobec®, Riley®,
Quadco® and Hydro-Ax®.
You can reach us toll-free from anywhere in Georgia at
1-877-YANCEY-1.
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