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Pete Stewart Wins Staff Award at FRA Annual Meeting
From the April 2010 Forest2Mill newsletter.
Forest2Market's President and CEO,
Pete Stewart, received the Staff Award at the Forest
Resources Association's 2010 Annual Meeting for his support of the organization and its goals.
According to FRA President Richard Lewis, the Staff Award recognizes a member who has
stepped in beyond the call of duty to make the FRA a more effective organization, generally by
filling a need the staff is not equipped to fill. "Associations like ours have limited staffs and
resources. As a result, we rely on our members to assist us. Stewart did this over and over again
in the last year."
Among the services Stewart was recognized for were his continual offers to put
Forest2Market's capabilities behind the FRA, including an offer to keep the Western statistics
program running during a staff transition. In addition, Stewart was involved in discussions about
the emerging biomass issue. FRA Director of Communications Neil Ward observed, "Pete not only
helped us clarify conflicts, but he also helped us move beyond the easy dogmas toward a more
nuanced understanding of what biomass will mean for the industry."
"The only thing that is greater than my appreciation to the staff of the FRA for this
award," said Stewart, "is my surprise at winning it. I belong to and work with the FRA because we
have a common mission, the long-term productivity and sustainability of our forests and forest
products industries. I look forward to working with the FRA and its experienced and tireless staff
for many, many years."
In presenting the award, Lewis thanked Stewart for actively participating in FRA's policy
deliberations and committee meetings, where he "offers counsel, advice, money and assistance with
project-related work."
The FRA Staff Award was created in 2005. Past recipients include John Manz of Weyerhaeuser,
Gary Reeve of Ponderay Newsprint, Steve Brown of Glatfelter, Hinton Davis of Davis-Garvin
Companies, and Dick Carmical of Price Industries.
About the Forest Resources Association
The
Forest Resources Association Inc. is
a nonprofit trade association concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of forest
products and their transport from woods to mill. FRA represents wood consumers, independent logging
contractors, wood dealers, and landowners, as well as businesses providing products and services to
the forest resource-based industries.