New Web site will connect forestry services

Indiana DNR Release:

Markets and marketing a product or service using Internet technology has become a mainstay of many businesses today.

Since landowners typically sell timber or seek professional forestry services once or twice in the ownership of the forest, connecting potential sellers and buyers just became easier.

The DNR Division of Forestry has developed an innovative new Web site – www.INForestryX.com – that creates a clearinghouse for forestry related commodities and services. The Web site is active now, with additional features in development.

The goals of the Web site include: facilitating trade and commerce of forest products, equipment, materials and services; improving landowner access to the forest product marketplace; and increasing the successful implementation of forest conservation projects by improving access to available conservation work in Indiana and surrounding states.

The Indiana hardwood market is the largest sector of the Indiana agricultural economy. The Indiana forest products industry has a $17 billion economic impact on the state, which has 4.7 million acres of forested lands, of which 85 percent is privately owned.

Indiana ranks first nationally in production of hardwood plywood, wood office furniture, wood kitchen cabinets, manufactured homes and wooden caskets and coffins.