Roseburg appoints new timberlands manager
Roseburg Forest Products has appointed Pete Hancock as manager of the company’s Roanoke Timberlands, effective May 7.
In this role, Hancock will oversee the day-to-day harvest and land management activities on Roseburg’s 158,000-acre fee land base in North Carolina and Virginia.
Hancock has built a 17-year consulting, industrial forest management, and supervisory career. He joins Roseburg from GFR Forestry Consultants, where he has provided clients in northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia with high-level timber sale, forest management, strategic harvest, and land use planning services for the past 12 years.
“On the operations side, Pete adds immediate value,” said Gabe Crane, Roseburg director of resource operations and marketing. “His extensive knowledge of local log markets and existing relationships with facilities and contractors in the area will seamlessly integrate our direct log and stumpage sales programs.”
“On the management side, Pete’s passion for best science-based planning, loblolly pine silviculture and the Roanoke land base line up with our long-term management principles and vision,” said Phil Adams, Roseburg director of timberlands. “Pete is a great fit for Roseburg, and we look forward to taking our management of the Roanoke timberlands to the next level together.”
Hancock will be based in North Carolina and report to both Crane and Adams.
Based in Springfield, Ore., Roseburg Forest Products is a privately owned manufacturer of particleboard, medium density fiberboard, and thermally fused laminates. Roseburg also manufactures softwood and hardwood plywood, lumber, LVL and I-joists. The company owns and sustainably manages more than 600,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, North Carolina and Virginia.
In this role, Hancock will oversee the day-to-day harvest and land management activities on Roseburg’s 158,000-acre fee land base in North Carolina and Virginia.
Hancock has built a 17-year consulting, industrial forest management, and supervisory career. He joins Roseburg from GFR Forestry Consultants, where he has provided clients in northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia with high-level timber sale, forest management, strategic harvest, and land use planning services for the past 12 years.
“On the operations side, Pete adds immediate value,” said Gabe Crane, Roseburg director of resource operations and marketing. “His extensive knowledge of local log markets and existing relationships with facilities and contractors in the area will seamlessly integrate our direct log and stumpage sales programs.”
“On the management side, Pete’s passion for best science-based planning, loblolly pine silviculture and the Roanoke land base line up with our long-term management principles and vision,” said Phil Adams, Roseburg director of timberlands. “Pete is a great fit for Roseburg, and we look forward to taking our management of the Roanoke timberlands to the next level together.”
Hancock will be based in North Carolina and report to both Crane and Adams.
Based in Springfield, Ore., Roseburg Forest Products is a privately owned manufacturer of particleboard, medium density fiberboard, and thermally fused laminates. Roseburg also manufactures softwood and hardwood plywood, lumber, LVL and I-joists. The company owns and sustainably manages more than 600,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, North Carolina and Virginia.