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4 <br /> LP will offer competitive prices for pine thinnings and non-commercial hardwoods to <br /> Orange County landowners. Since the goal of thinning timber is to provide the best possible <br /> growing conditions for crop trees, the impacts on the forest stand are kept to a minimum. A <br /> log deck usually found near highways is cleared for loading the harvest. Erosion and accelerated <br /> runoff from thinned stands is generally minimal. <br /> The Huber Plant in Crystal Hill, VA., and the Georgia Pacific Plant in Brookneal, VA., <br /> will use more hardwoods than the LP Plant. These two plants were located in Virginia because <br /> of an abundant wood supply. These plants will concentrate on getting wood that is near their <br /> plants. It will probably be some time before they would n� material from Orange County. <br /> The southside Virginia area is less populated than Orange County. Huber and Georgia Pacific <br /> will have less problems with boundary clarification and other concerns associated with harvesting <br /> timber in more densely populated areas. Also Virginia's reforestation laws have produced an <br /> abundant wood supply in southside Virginia. <br /> The Huber and George Pacific Plants can only mean more competitive prices for Orange <br /> County forest landowners. <br /> Advantages of New Plants: <br /> - Market for previously unmarketable trees <br /> - Better prices <br /> - Lower reforestation costs <br /> - Better forest management and resource utilization <br /> George Pace, Procurement Forester for LP, has offered to host a tour of their new <br /> facility near the Virginia line. We will be glad to arrange a tour showing the entire process <br /> from woods to finished product to help familiarize you with this industry. We believe hands-on <br /> learning is best. <br />