Community Action: Creating & Maintaining a Sustainable Forestry & Wood Products Community
Greenleaf
envisions a collaborative association of landowners, foresters, wood producers,
and wood product users developed through innovative networks and relationship
building.
If you are interested in becoming a part of our sustainable forestry and wood products community, let us know! Also please contact us if we can help provide you with any of the following services:len.at.greenleaf@gmail.com
We envision building a network of collaborative businesses by:
Involving landowners as
partners in business development
Sharing information and
working as an interconnected industry of forest owners, foresters, forest
products manufacturers, and consumers
Building an official
"Association" or other business format to allow modeling, copying, and
developing joint/ collaborative techniques, pricing, procedures, products,
policies, marketing, etc.
Developing leadership and
collaboration, recognizing the critical importance of leadership and seeking out other community leaders
Using special funding,
grants and State Forest Service/U.S. Forest Service programs
Developing staff through
internships in business management, sawmilling, wood manufacturing, forestry
planning, forestry treatment services, equipment selection and management,
personnel, computer systems, bookkeeping and marketing
Offering on-site visits by Greenleaf
staff members to train other foresters and their crews at their locations or in one-on-one trainings
at Greenleaf's headquarters in Westcliffe, Colorado
Using the resources of Small
Business Development Centers and colleges
Offering business-to-business
assistance for existing companies or those starting from scratch to build
sustainable forest enterprises
Giving group presentations on
details of the Greenleaf operating plan and system, including problem solving sessions
Gathering and communicating other recommendations and
ideas
Interested in joining us? Or just want to share your comments? We want to hear from you! E-mail us at len.at.greenleaf@gmail.com
