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Wood Producers,

See the attached file for a copy of the New Brunswick Forests - Best Management Practices Manual.

Our Contracts for roundwood include the statement under the “Special Conditions” section that the Producer will “utilize best forestry management practices”. Signing the Contract is acceptance that you will adhere to these Best Management Practices.

You may have been provided a physical copy of the handbook when you received your initial Contract.

I would ask that you review the manual again as a refresher.

Providing this training material to our Wood Producers, and having Producers follow these best practices is important in maintaining our SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) certification for our Mills.

As part of the audit process each year a few private woodlots that we bought from are audited (on the ground) in relation to these best practices. It is also possible that the auditor (KPMG) could contact you to ask about “best practices” or this manual. Please be familiar with the manual.

If you have misplaced your copy and would like a hard copy of the manual to have on hand, please let me know. I will send one along to you.

Do not hesitate to call if you have any questions.

Thanks.

Wendell Munn

J. D. Irving, Limited

650-5797 (cell)

On Wednesday, May 27th between the hours of 5:00 am and 5:00 pm deliveries to the South Bay Chip Plant will not be possible.

Trucks delivering just prior to this outage should ensure they have enough time to be unloaded and offsite prior to 5:00 am.

The road will be blocked while the rail line leading to the Chip Plant is completed.

Please be advised that effective immediately our Lake Utopia site will only have a loader on site 24/5.

We will no longer be chipping on weekends.

We will open Sunday evening at 6:00 pm and stay open until 5:00 pm Friday evenings.