Networking/Association update & request for contacts

[Scott G]

Fellow Draft Animal Powered Forestry Practioners,

This is an update on the progress of the formative focus group’s collaborative process to launch our new effort. It has been decided to:

-Start with a networking/newsletter effort both in e-copy & hard copy form to reach out to fellow practitioners on an International basis. The end goal, however, is an established organization.

-Be all inclusive for all types of draft animal extraction (horse, mule, oxen, etc..)

-Develop an extensive contact list from which can work from and network with.

At the present we are narrowing down our 1)Name, 2)Mission Statement, & 3) Primary Goals.

Once we have developed & implemented our formative process we will open the effort to all. As always, however, comments, suggestions and insight are welcome.

Next task, we need to start developing our contact list. This will be a contact list that will allow us to start pulling together all of our fellow draft powered forestry practitioners, wherever they may be. In the absence of being able to attach an .xls file to this thread, please contact me at horselogger@gmail.com to obtain it. I will then do an automatic reply with the file attached. Please enter the required information following the example of my listing in the first row. When you are finished, e-mail the completed form to me at horselogger@gmail.com with the file extension changed slightly for ease of file organization on my end. For example, change the file name from to something that includes your initials .

Please enter information for every draft powered forestry practitioner you know, contact them to have them add to the list folks they know. E-mail is a priority if they have it as that is the most efficient way of distributing initial information. Mailing address is important as well. Please do not enter incomplete addresses as they do us no good. For International folks please include a complete post address that I could put in the mail and it would find you. For those furry critters (I know 2!) that only crawl out of the woods on rare occassions and use a general delivery at a post office that will work. The take home idea is that whatever we put in the mail will find them. We are not collecting phone numbers at this time for privacy concerns but will forward that option to listed members at a later date. For those of you that do not have computers that support Microsoft Excel send the info in a format that will work for you. The less info I receive in other formats is that much less that I have to re-enter by hand, however.

Thanks for everyone’s help, this effort will be what we make of it and depends on everyone’s support & input.

Take care,
Scott

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