SWRPC Presents at 2025 Vermont Forest Industry Summit
- July 25, 2025
- Transportation
On June 19th, SWRPC presented at the Vermont Forest Industry Summit on how SWRPC’s Timber for Transit grant could help link the timber products industry to the transportation industry in the Monadnock Region and beyond. The summit, held at Bolton Valley Resort in Richmond VT, focused on innovation in the timber industry.
SWRPC staff member Chloe Gross presented alongside UNH Extension’s Forest Industry Specialist Andrew Fast and Mass Timber Advisors Principal Ricky McLain in a breakout session titled Locally Produced Glulam: A Case Study in Market Development.
This 75-minute session focused on ways to create demand for innovative products that use local species and how to create fertile ground for the engineered wood industry to take root in the region. SWRPC’s presentation introduced Regional Planning Commissions to the audience of timber industry professionals and explained how SWRPC is working to connect the timber products industry to the transportation sector through the Timber for Transit program.
Sarah Waring, Executive Director of Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC), said a few words about the Timber for Transit program and how NBRC supports the timber industry by providing funding for timber-based projects in its service area, which includes Cheshire County. NBRC supports this Timber for Transit project.
SWRPC’s Timber for Transit project builds on decades of existing work to develop a regional engineered wood products industry by showing that local timber products can be used for local transportation projects in the Monadnock Region, adding value to cross sector collaborations, and encouraging the development of the engineered wood supply chain.
SWRPC is currently seeking project nominations for timber-based transportation infrastructure projects. The nomination form is available at www.swrpc.org/featured-projects/timber-for-transit.
For more information, please contact SWRPC staff member Chloe Gross at [email protected].
