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Forest Information Update is supported by the following sponsors. Support our sponsors, they help keep FIU free to you. Should you wish
to sponsor FIU, please feel free to contact Information <info@forestinformationupdate.com>. ESRI
- As the leader in GIS technology, ESRI offers innovative solutions that will help you create, visualize, analyze, and present natural resources information better and more clearly. Working with location information, ESRI's GIS software and solutions give you the power to solve problems you encounter every day. Forestry and other natural resource organizations around the world are using this ESRI software to make smart and timely decisions. ESRI provides powerful GIS solutions to more than 300,000 clients in more than 200 countries and offers mapping technology to meet today's global needs. Using ESRI technology, you too can unlock the spatial component of your valuable data and see your organization's information from a new perspective. For more information, visit the ESRI site at www.esri.com/forestry <http://www.esri.com/forestry> or contact: Geoff Wade, Natural Resource Industries Manager; Phone: 909-793-2853, ext. 2391; E-mail:
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CONTINUING EDUCATION IN FOREST FINANCE AND ECONOMIC - The Department
of Forest and Wood Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, will be presenting a Forest Finance and Economics Course as from 2008. The course will comprise two,
one-week intensive contact (block) sessions during May and September/October, with additional assignments and other specific tasks to be completed during the balance of
the period. The course will review and introduce financial decision-making for foresters to improve overall timberland and land-use management. The course is primarily intended
for forestry professionals and land managers who must make decisions about timber management operations and who want to improve financial returns. The course may also
benefit other company personnel who are involved in financial aspects of forest operations.
For more information regarding more detailed course content and objectives, and
registration; please contact Pierre Ackerman at +27 (21) 8083293, or at packer@sun.ac.za. . LASER TECHNOLOGY, INC.
is the innovator and pioneer of reflectorless distance measurement and the leading manufacturer of pulse-laser products and mapping systems. Introducing the Criterion RD1000, the first patented electronic BAF-scope /
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product so unique! The TruPulse series, a low-cost professional rangefinder that measures horizontal, vertical and slope distance as well as height...and now azimuth! It
provides crystal-clear optics and superior performance with +/-1 ft. (30 cm) distance accuracy and +/- 1 degree azimuth accuracy. Visit: http://www.lasertech.com/ for more info!
. FORSIGHT RESOURCES, LLC - FORSight Resources is a world-class provider of
decision support services for natural resource management. FORSight Resources brings decades of combined forestry and GIS/GPS/mapping experience to provide a full suite of
decision support offerings geared specifically towards natural resource management. The company's offerings include forest planning, timberland acquisition due diligence, GIS
and data services, inventory and biometrics, and a host of other services. With offices in South Carolina, Washington, and Maine we support forestry operations in all forested
regions of the United States and Canada. We also sell and support ESRI GIS and Trimble GPS hardware and software. For more information, please contact Bruce Carroll
+1-843.552.0717, Sean Canavan +1-360.882.9030, or Ian Prior +1-207.945.3302, email us at
mailto:info@FORSightResources.com, or visit our web site http://FORSightResources.com. .
SOUTHEM - The source for publications and on-line information on the forestry and forest
industry sectors of the Southern Hemisphere. Publications include the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Journal, the Southern Hemisphere Forest Industry Yearbook,
and the Guide to Forestry Investment in Australia and New Zealand. Online sources include the free e-news headlines service SOUTHEM Online, and SOUTHEM Updates for subscribers. For more information, email:
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