John Pait

Plum Creek Timber Co., Inc. is a timberland owner in the United States of America. It involves in the harvesting of trees, selling the timberland and converting trees into lumber, plywood and other wood products. It operates through following business segments: Northern Resources, Southern Resources, The Real Estate, Manufacturing, and Energy and Natural Resources. The Northern Resources segment consists of timberlands in Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The Southern Resources segment consists of timberlands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It sells primarily softwood saw logs and pulpwood. The Real Estate segment comprises sales of higher timberlands and sales of non-strategic timberlands. The Manufacturing segment consists of two lumber mills, two plywood mills, and two medium density fiberboard facilities in Montana and one lumber remanufacturing facility in Idaho. The Energy and Natural Resources segment includes its natural resource businesses that focus on opportunities for oil and natural gas production, construction aggregates and mineral extraction, wind power and communication. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Georgia Pacific Building Materials Ltd. distributes custom chipping operations to pulp mills. The firm imports and distributes building products. The company is located in Coquitlam, Canada

CellFor is the world's leading independent supplier of high technology seedlings to the global forest industry. Using plant biotechnology, which is the use of biological processes to manufacture products, CellFor identifies and produces genetically superior conifer seedlings without genetic modification. It's not a position they have earned by being the biggest seedling producer in the world, but by being the first to tap into the promise of plant biotechnology to mass produce high quality, top performing conifer seedlings more quickly, more dependably, and in far greater quantities than ever before. CellFor corporate headquarters is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the primary research and development, laboratory and production facilities located north of Victoria, on Vancouver Island. They have more than 200 scientists and technicians at their facilities in and around Victoria, where they are producing somatic embryos and seedlings on a commercial scale for customers in North America, South America and Australasia. In addition, CellFor has a Sales and Marketing team located in Atlanta, Georgia.

ArborGen, Inc. develops biotechnology tree seedling products. It also provides conventional and technology enhanced seedlings to the forestry industry. The firm's seedling products span the entire technology spectrum, from conventional seedlings to biotechnology seedlings. The company was founded on February 7, 2000 and is headquartered in Ridgeville, SC.

Forest Landowners Association provides advice, support and information to policy makers. The company was founded by W.M. Oettmeier Sr., and Judge Harley Langdale, Sr. in 1941 and is headquartered in Smyrna, GA.