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I mentioned this opportunity late last year, and I wanted to follow up. For the first time, wood products companies are eligible for inclusion in the Pure Catskills Guide (check out last year's Guide here). Watershed Qualified Foresters, TLC-certified loggers, sawmills, woodworkers and manufacturers are all eligible. We'll be distributing 50,000 copies of this full-color, consumer-focused, professionally-produced guide across the region. For $35, your membership includes a Guide listing with your business contact information and a 50-word description. For an additional fee, you can get expanded ad space. You can use this space for your own ad, or you can work with the Guide's designer, ColorPage in Kingston, to design an ad for you at no additional cost. This is a great opportunity to get a professionally-developed ad at low cost as well as increase your regional marketing. To sign up for the Guide, simply complete this application and send it and payment to Pure Catskills c/o ColorPage Publishing, 71 Tenbroeck Ave., Kingston, NY 12401.

 

Interested in lowering the heating cost of your larger buildings? New England Wood Pellet, operators of the Deposit wood pellet plant that began operation in 2011 on the site of the former Norbord Industries, is interested in discussing wood pellet heating as an option for commercial, institutional and industrial heating in the greater Catskills Region. If you own a building currently heated with oil or propane, wood pellets offer a convenient, clean and much less expensive heating option (over 50% less than these fossil heating fuels). Pellet fuel is delivered in bulk by specially fitted trucks. Advanced European boiler technology now manufactured in New York State enables fully automated combustion at very high efficiency and low emissions. There may be grant funding available to assist with capital cost. 

This technology is widespread in Europe, seeing significant growth in New England, and is in the early stages of adoption in New York with about a dozen commercial-scale systems now operating in schools, museums and municipal facilities. If you're interested in learning more, call or email Charlie Niebling, General Manager of New England Wood Pellet, at 603-965-5434. Tell him you heard about it through Catskill WoodNet!

 

Ever feel like Albany isn't paying attention to you? Here's your chance to tell them what you think!  The annual Forestry Awareness Day (FAD) on Tuesday, March 19 involves planned visits to legislative offices to discuss forestry issues in New York State. For more information, please see this flyer developed by the Council of Forest Resource Organizations, or contact Muriel Church at the Empire State Forest Products Association, 518-330-7684. 

  

Members of a sponsoring organization can attend FAD for free. If you're a member of Catskill WoodNet, Empire State Forest Products Association, Catskill Forest Association, or any of the other sponsors listed at the bottom of the flyer, be sure to come on March 19 and let Albany know your passion for wood. You can register online here. Even if you aren't a member of a sponsoring organization, consider coming anyway. It's a once-a-year opportunity to show Albany the importance of

working forests to New York!