Tropical Tree Firm Recognized
C.E.O Magazine, August 1993, page 29
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Tropical Tree Firm Recognized
C.E.O. Magazine, August 1993
Steve and Sherry Brunner, owners of Columbus-based Tropical American Tree Farms, were recently awarded the National Arbor Day Foundation Good Steward Award. They received the award for the company's planting of teak and other tropical hardwood trees on their 1,400-acre tree farm in Campo Real, Costa Rica.
The Brunners are turning their farm into a tropical hardwood tree farm for future harvest and say they plan to plant more than 1 million tropical trees by the end of this decade.
"We believe that planting tropical hardwood trees for future harvest - for profit - is a free enterprise solution to the problem of tropical deforestation," says Steve Brunner. "We hope to help ease the pressure on the world's natural rain forests by planting trees for harvest, while profiting from the steadily increasing prices and scarcity of beautiful tropical hardwoods like teak."
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