Certain actions have subsequently 

 been taken toward achieving these 

 goals, primarily through the National 

 Forest Products Association's private 

 woodlands program, and specific 

 State-level industry-association 

 action. In 1982, the National Forest 

 Products Association initiated a 

 program of providing 3-year 

 matching grants to State forestry 

 associations to help support hiring of 

 a full-time private woodland 

 coordinator, or otherwise take direct 

 actions to improve forest 

 productivity. Alabama and South 

 Carolina are two Southern States 

 participating in the program, and the 

 National Forest Products Association 

 has committed over $180,000 

 nationwide to date to this matching 

 program with local forest industry. 

 The Louisiana Forestry Association's 

 Third Forest program, likewise, 

 represents a private sector-association 

 response to the need for increased 

 forest productivity and has served as 

 a model for the National Forest 

 Products Association's private 

 woodlands program, although not 

 officially a part of it. 



Perhaps the greatest contribution of 

 the Southern Forest Resource 

 Analysis and the Third Forest report 

 was the opportunity it provided for 

 representatives of all segments of the 

 southern forest industry and their 

 various associations to work in 

 coordination for the first time in 

 meeting the challenges affecting their 

 future. 



Shortly after the Southern Forest 

 Resource Analysis was launched, the 



South Carolina Forestry Association 

 was established in 1968, with 

 headquarters in Columbia. Robert 

 Scott was the first and, to date, the 

 only executive vice president. The 

 next year, 1969, the Southern 

 Pulpwood Conservation Association 

 merged with the southern office of 

 the American Forest Institute (now 

 the American Forest Council) to form 

 the Southern Forest Institute (now the 

 American Forest Council-South), 

 with headquarters in Atlanta. George 

 E. Kelly was named its chief 

 executive, as well as a vice president 

 of the American Forest Institute. He 

 was succeeeded by Benton H. Box, 

 who served until James M. 

 Montgomery, the current executive 

 vice president, took over. The 

 Southern Forest Council-South 

 conducts important educational 

 programs, principal of which is 

 administration of the national tree 

 farm program in the region, under 

 the guidance of Donald W. Smith, 

 director of forest resources. 



Starting in the 1970's, southern 

 associations have provided important 

 input in the development of 

 regulations implementing the Clean 

 Water and Clean Air Acts and their 

 amendments. These groups have 

 played an important role in 

 persuading the Environmental 

 Protection Agency, the Army Corps 

 of Engineers, and Congress that the 

 voluntary Best Management Practices 

 (BMP) approach, under State 

 supervision, is far superior in 

 implementing the Clean Water Act to 

 the originally advocated compulsory 

 State forest practices act proposals, 



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