Kentucky Forestry Economic Impact Report 2013-2014
Kentucky Forestry Economic Impact Report 2013-2014
Authors Jeff Stringer, Billy Thomas, Bobby Ammerman, Alison Davis1
1Extension Professor of Hardwood Silviculture and Forest Operations; Extension Associate for Family Forest Education; and Extension Associate Secondary Forest Industry, University of Kentucky, Department of Forestry Extension respectively, and Associate Extension Professor, University of Kentucky, Department of Agricultural Economics.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Kentucky Division of Forestry personnel Larry Lowe, Chris Nevins, and Stewart West for providing necessary and invaluable information to this report; Chris Oswalt with USDA Forest Service’s FIA unit in Knoxville; Mark Schuster, KDF coordinator of the Kentucky Master Logger Program, members of the Kentucky Forest Industries Association; and Carroll Fackler and Terrell Baker with the University of Kentucky, Department of Forestry. Special thanks go to Reneé Williams, Information Specialist with the University of Kentucky, Department of Forestry Extension for publication graphics and layout.
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