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size=2><SPAN class=745044014-28082008>This news release from the Oregon Forest
Resources Institute is forwarded to you at OFRI's request.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2><SPAN class=745044014-28082008>Kevin Weeks</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2><SPAN class=745044014-28082008>Oregon Dept. of Forestry</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2>August 27, 2008</FONT></P>
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size=2>Contact:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dave Kvamme, OFRI –
971-673-2948</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"
size=2>Oregon Forest Resources Institute names Peter Sikora new board
chair</FONT></P>
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size=2><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">PORTLAND</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Ore.</st1:State></st1:place>
– The Oregon Forest Resources Institute’s (OFRI) Board of Directors today
announced that it elected Peter Sikora to be its new board chair. OFRI is a
semi-independent state organization dedicated to forestry
education.</FONT></FONT></P>
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</SPAN>Sikora, chief operating officer for Giustina Resources in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Eugene</st1:place></st1:City>, replaces Carol
Whipple who has served for two consecutive terms as OFRI’s board chair. Whipple,
owner of the Rocking C Ranch near Elkton, remains on OFRI’s board. Sikora has
served as OFRI’s vice chair for two terms.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT
size=2><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>"I’m
honored,” said Sikora, “and look forward to working with OFRI's award-winning
staff to build on the work of past boards in providing the public and forest
landowners with accurate and credible information about <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State></st1:place>'s
forests."</FONT></FONT></P>
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</SPAN>OFRI’s board also named Sara Leiman, co-owner of Coast Range Conifers LLC
in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Monroe</st1:place></st1:City>, as
vice chair of OFRI’s board. Earlier this month, OFRI’s board named Paul Barnum
as its new executive director assuming the post from Leslie Lehmann, who retired
after 16 years as OFRI’s founding executive director.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT
size=2><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>OFRI
has completed the first year of a five-year strategic plan. That plan
articulates OFRI’s mission to inform the public about <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>’s forests and to
promote healthy, productive forestlands. The plan also seeks to educate forest
landowners about public expectations for forest stewardship and best forest
management practices to meet or exceed the requirements of Oregon’s landmark
Forest Practices Act first passed by the Oregon Legislature in 1971. OFRI’s
strategic plan also reaches out to K-12 audiences and promotes a growing skilled
and technology-savvy forestry workforce.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT
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Oregon State Legislature created the Oregon Forest Resources Institute in 1991
and is dedicated to public understanding of forest stewardship to meet the
social, environmental and the economic needs of both present and future
generations of Oregonians. OFRI is funded by a portion of the harvest tax on
forest products producers. The OFRI Board represents small, medium and large
forest products producers, small woodland owners and forest products employees.
Ex-officio board members include the dean of the Oregon State University College
of Forestry and a representative of the general public appointed jointly by the
president of the Oregon Senate and the speaker of the Oregon House of
Representatives.</FONT></FONT></P>
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