Spotlight Features - Southeastern

FRA Southeastern Region

This FRA Region, managed by Rick Meyer and extending from Florida through eastern Virginia, is comprised of members who grow, harvest, transport, and/or consume fiber, primarily for delivery to sawmills, plywood plants, OSB mills, pulp and paper mills, and wood-energy facilities. Current issues of emphasis are trucking availability and trucking insurance issues, and logging capacity as it relates to wood fiber availability. The Region hosts a two-day Annual Meeting in the spring and a Southwide Timber Security Group Meeting in the fall. The Security Group Meeting location alternates every other year with FRA’s Southcentral Region.

Contact the FRA Southeastern Region

Rick Meyer, FRA Region Manager
Forest Resources Association
2129 Electric Road, SW
Suite 205
Roanoke, VA 24018
ph: 540-989-4171
fx: 540-774-9415
[email protected]

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Southeast Region Policy Committee Meeting

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Spotlight Features - Southeastern

Boise Cascade Investing $17.5 Million in South Carolina Expansion

Boise Cascade Company will expand its existing operations in Chester County, SC. The engineered wood products and plywood maker and building products distributor is investing an additional $17.5 million in the facility in a series of upgrade projects.

Log Hauling Transportation Study

In 2016 the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (“Endowment”) and Region 8 of the USDA. Forest Service commissioned a scoping study to identify the challenges facing log transportation businesses in the Southeast and opportunities for improving productivity.

Beech Island Timber & Construction, Inc: FRA's 2019 Southeastern Region Outstanding Logger

The Forest Resources Association and STIHL Incorporated honored Josh Key, the owner and president of Beech Island Timber & Construction, Inc. of Jackson, South Carolina, as FRA’s Southeastern Region 2019 Outstanding Logger at its Southeastern Region (SER) Awards Dinner in Fernandina Beach, Florida on May 21.