About the Group
About the Group
The Group evolved from within IAgrE and was inaugurated on 15 March 1989. A Committee was formed with a member to represent various aspects of Forest Engineering. The aim of the Group is:
To encourage and facilitate the exchange and expansion of knowledge, learning, and communication between the engineers and other professionals who develop, shape, and add value to the infrastructure and products of the countryside, for the overall benefit of society.
We have created a forum for engineers and their associates who work and share an interest in the forest industry to meet and exchange their experience and knowledge. This includes outings, meetings and publishing papers. We organise single day Symposia on special subjects which are a current focus within the industry.
We have become responsible for over 200 papers duringr the last 16 years, covering a variety of subjects from all over the world. Almost every subject has been touched and there are striking similarities of practice across the globe. These papers represented the current thinking in forest engineering and are available on CD Rom.
Our membership of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers provides an avenue of contact with the other land based industries which gives us a broad base not enjoyed by other professional forestry bodies. One of our most important aims is to help organise education for Forest Engineers. This is being actively pursued along with the Scottish Forestry Cluster Group.
In 1999 FEG hosted the first international conference on the subject and played a central role in the second in Sweden in 2003 and have a representative on the Technical Committee choosing the papers for the third in Canada in 2007. FEG has represented the Industry internationally on a DTI ITS Mission and as advisor to a world convocation of Academies of Engineering.
Our objective is to facilitate a healthy, multi-purpose forest industry, supported by its own multi-faceted professionals. We will invest in training and related travel and become the central source of information on Forest Engineering matters. We have a web site <FEG.org.uk> which can be accessed independently or through IAgrE. We hope to produce enlightened managers for the future who will take this growing industry to secure profitability and environmental excellence.
Geoff Freedman FEG
email: geoff.freedman@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Tel:- 01721 720 448
Fax:- 01721 723 041