Krysta West, Allan Ryder, Chris Fife
MILLINOCKET – The Maine Forest Products Council recognized Allan Ryder, President of Timber Resource Group, with the organization’s prestigious Albert D. Nutting Award at its Annual Membership Meeting on September 13. This award recognizes Ryder’s significant contributions over the last 40 years to Maine’s forest industry. Since 1998, Allan has been with Timber Resource Group, working his way through the ranks from forester to President.
“Always the first to volunteer, Allan has served the industry and his peers in many ways including on the Executive Committee of the Maine Forest Products Council, with NELMA, and with the Northeast Logger’s Association,” said Chris Fife, President of the Maine Forest Products Council. “We thank Allan for decades of leadership and support, and we wish him well in his upcoming retirement.”
About the “Albert D. Nutting Award”: The Maine Forest Products Council established the Albert D. Nutting Award in 1990, to commemorate the many contributions to Maine Forestry that Al Nutting was instrumental in creating. He was, of course, the Director of the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, Maine Commissioner of Forestry, and, incidentally, one of the Founders of the Maine Forest Products Council. This award has been presented annually since 1990, to a remarkable group of individuals, each one of them truly unique, but with a common commitment to Maine and its forest industry.
The recipient will have demonstrated recognized qualities of leadership and integrity, as well as a commitment to the values both public and private, generated from the working forest. His or her experience will reflect concern for sound environmental use as well as the economic value of the forest industry and the community at large.
About the Maine Forest Products Council: Since 1961, the Maine Forest Products Council has been the voice of Maine’s forest economy. MFPC represents the diverse needs of Maine’s forest products community. Our members include landowners, loggers, truckers, paper mills, tree farmers, foresters and lumber processors, as well as bankers, lawyers and insurance executives. The Maine Forest Products Council represents anyone who has an interest in seeing the Maine woods remain a viable, sustainable resource. For more information, visit maineforest.org.