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North Carolina Statewide Marketing for Forest and Wood Products

The US Forest Service has awarded NCSU Wood Products Extension a grant to work with the NC primary and secondary in North Carolina from now into 2022. Working with NCSU WPE is the NCFS and West65thInc on this project that has its goal to grow sales, profitabity and employment. In 2020 we are planning a series of thirteen regional meetings based on the thirteen NC Forest Service Districts that divide the one hundred counties into thirteen districts.  We will be announcing these meeting dates and locations soon that will run from March to November.  Additionally we will have an interest online survey asking for input for each meeting on topics to cover specific to each district. Harry Watt at NCSU WPE is the contact person for this meeting. Contact at harry_watt@ncsu.edu and cell at 704-880-3067.

Take this link to our webpage for the Statewide Forest and Wood Products Marketing Project.

We do have open our interest survey that we made available in the Fall of 2019 and you can take the online survey at the link below.  Additionally below is a link for a summay of comments from the first one hundred persons who completed the survey.

https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/da457c2eda474091b9e3ab4989f10991

Take this link to review about 300 comments on the survey by November 5, 2019

Starting August 2019 the NCSU Wood Products Extension is leading the effort in North Carolina to grow sales, profitability and employment for the primary and secondary forest and wood products industries.  This grant project is funded by the US Forest Service Wood Innovations Program for marketing.  We were picked out of about 150 applications, only about 30 were funded.  Our efforts will be undertaken in all 100 NC counties and will last into 2022.

Participants in the projects inclued:

NCSU-Harry Watt, Phil Mitchell, Frederik Laleicke-all Wood Products Extension

NC Forest Sevice-Pricilla Morris, Utilization Forester

West 65th Inc.-Carla Harper, marketing services company

We will be hosting thirteen regional educational/networking events were we invite professionals from all phases of North Carolina’s forest and wood products industry.  These meetings will cover topics of interest and we will seek out opinions about the problems and opportunities for our industry.  Stay tuned and we will be hosting these meetings from March through November.