Client Testimonials:

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

For more than two decades, Plexus consultants have worked with natural resource companies, associations, and coalitions. Consulting assignments have included:

Long-term federal representation for a publicly-traded softwood lumber manufacturer.

Public policy communications and website creation for a coalition of 20 forest products trade associations representing more than 7,500 family-owned businesses.

Coalition creation/management, media relations, and federal government relations for an international coalition of hardwood manufacturers and local governments.

Federal funding (appropriations) for a biomass-geothermal electric power plant, a geothermal district heating system, and a proof-of-concept biomass to ethanol conversion facility.

Congressional communications for a national trade association of softwood lumber and plywood producers.

International Fisheries Management

Substantive experience of our natural resource consultants includes:

Laws and policies governing public lands.

Federal forest management and planning.

Appropriations for the Departments of Interior and Energy and the U.S. Forest Service.

Laws, regulations, and programs for geothermal energy development and biomass to ethanol conversion.

Detailed information is available for the following clients/assignments:

Family Business First
Designed and managed a two-way public policy communications program. Wrote and distributed monthly mailings to Members of Congress and Family Business First (FBF) partners (20 trade associations) for distribution to 7,500+ wood products companies. Also produced FBF voter scorecards for 105th and 106th Congresses and redesigned FBF website... [More]

Independent Forest Products Association
Executed communications strategy/program for Independent Forest Products Association (IFPA). Wrote and delivered more than 100 policy documents to Congressional targets and IFPA membership. Designed and implemented a database linking IFPA companies, Members of Congress, and local media... [More]

Allegheny Forest Alliance
Led successful effort in 1994 to save $1 million in funding for timber sales on Allegheny National Forest (ANF) in Pennsylvania. In 1995, established a grassroots coalition, The Allegheny Forest Alliance, to further protect the ANF timber program. Currently, the Alliance has: (1) hundreds of members in the United States, Canada, and Europe; (2) a budget in the mid six figures; and (3) a governing body of hardwood lumber/veneer producers and officials from local school boards and townships. The Alliance has won several major legal battles before federal district and appeals courts... [More]

Fibreboard Corporation
Represented Fibreboard's interests before Congress, Department of Agriculture, and American Forest and Paper Association. Advanced and followed-up on dozens of trips by Chairman/CEO and Vice President External Relations. Led Fibreboard's effort on Stanislaus Forest Plan and its appeal of same... [More]

City of Boise, Idaho
Twice lobbied for and obtained funds (totaling $2.06 million) for Boise's geothermal district heating system. Wrote proposals to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for release of appropriated monies... [More]

GeoProducts Corporation
Secured $2.4 million in federal funds (bridge-financing) for construction of the world's first hybrid renewable energy power plant utilizing geothermal energy and heat from the combustion of wood waste... [More]

Quadrex Corporation
Obtained $4 million in appropriated funds for construction of a proof-of-process waste paper to ethanol plant in South Florida... [More]

Other clients have included:
Ministry of Fisheries in Iceland, Small Business Timber Council, Fine Hardwood Veneer Association, Bennett Lumber Products, Evergreen Forest Products, Riley Creek Lumber Company, Sequoia Forest Industries, North East Hardwoods, Brookville Wood Products, Hydrothermal Energy Corp.