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Text Box: I.P JOINT VENTURE IN RUSSIA International Paper (IP) and Ilim Pulp have agreed to establish a 50-50 joint venture which would be the largest forest-domestic alliance in the Russian forest sector. Ilium Pulp, the largest forest products enterprise in Russia, operates four pulp and paper mills, producing about 2.5 million tons annually of market pulp, uncoated papers, and packaging. The transaction will involve International Paper purchasing a 50-percent equity interest in Ilim Pulp, whose total value is estimated at $1.3 billion. The agreement will tentatively finalize in the first quarter of 2007, pending completion of due diligence, receipt of regulatory approvals and approval by their respective boards. Ilim Pulp Chairman Zakhar Smushkin said, “Our joint success would provide Russia a competitive edge over other emerging markets in attracting needed capital to the industry. “A key element of the joint venture is the investment of about $1.2 billion in four Russian pulp and paper mills over about five years. The company is in the process of consolidating the ownership of the individual mills into a single open joint-stock company, Ilim Group, a subsidiary of Ilim Holding. The joint ventures board of directors is to include equal representation from both companies and will be headquartered in St.Petersburg. Ilim Pulp of St. Petersburg was incorporated in 1992 and is among the world’s top ten companies in market pulp output and ranks sixth internationally in timber reserves and logging volumes. The company employs 42,000 people and produces 60 percent of market pulp and 50 percent of boxboard manufactured in Russia. International Paper has been in the forest-products industry for more than 100 years. Their pulp and paper mill in Svetogorsk, in the Leningrad region, will remain separate from the joint venture. Likewise, Ilim Pulp’s wood-products enterprises will not be apart of the joint venture. Ilim plans to combine these entities to create the country’s largest timber-processing holding company. I.P. SELLS 4.2 MILLION ACRES International Paper (IP) has announced the sale of 4.2 million acres of forest land in the Southeastern U.S. and Michigan to an investor group led by Resource Management Service, LLC (RMS). The transaction price is about $5 billion in cash and notes. This sale, together with the $1.13 billion sale to Timber Star Southwest in late October, will result in an estimated special fourth-quarter pre-tax gain in excess of $4 billion. ANOTHER RECORD FIRE SEASON USDA Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth has announced that since 2000, America has had some of its worst fire seasons in 50 years and this year so far has been one of the worst in the past century. Nearly 9.3 million acres have burned so far this year (as of October 12). According to Bosworth many of our fire-dependent ecosystems have become overgrown and unhealthy. He proposes thinning overgrown fire-dependant forests and getting fire back into the ecosystem when it’s safe. The USDA Forest Service has been criticized for not being more aggressive with prescribed fire and wild land fire use. The Forest Service, however, contends that the wild land-urban interface presents risks. There is also opposition from competing interests - wildlife, fisheries, and watersheds. USFS ASSESSES RECREATION SITES The USDA Forest Service’s Recreation Site-Facility Master Planning (RS-FMP) process is an attempt to prioritize scarce funding for maintaining and operating recreation facilities. The process is related to the 2004 Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act, which authorizes recreation fees charged by federal agencies. The goal of the program is to focus limited resources on the highest priority sites and facilities. The maintenance backlog is very large, but recreation funding is low. Opponents to the RS-FMP contend that the Forest Service is operating its initiative in secret and they fear that the program will impose a for-profit model on the management of America’s national forests. They report that 22 national forests have completed RS-FMP plans and have begun implementing them, but no plan has been publicly released. The RS-FMP opponents have projected that 3,000-5,000 recreation sites will be closed or decommissioned and as many as 4,000 more will be converted to fee sites or turned over to private for-profit concessionaires to manage. IVORY BILLED WOODPECKERES Geoff Hill, a professor and ornithologist at Auburn University, has reported that his research team has compiled evidence that a population of ivory-billed woodpeckers exists in a remote river basin in the panhandle of Florida. From May 2005 to May 2006, Hill’s team recorded 14 sightings and more than 300 sounds that match descriptions of ivory-billed woodpecker sounds. In February 2004, a kayaker reported spotting the woodpecker along the Cache River in Arkansas. The sighting spawned a year-long search in the Cache River and white River National Wildlife Refuges led by Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy. The recordings and photographs taken during the expeditions can be viewed at www.auburn.edu/ivorybill.

FORESTRY NEWSLETTER WINTER 2006

Ivory-Billed Wood Pecker