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Through their participation in this program, participants should develop greater understanding of the range and scope of potential financial crimes in woodland operations. Participants should receive new ideas regarding cost effective methods of reducing the potential for financial crimes in their woodland operations.

Topic areas include:

• Concepts associated with financial crimes
• How landowners reduce the potential for financial crimes — owning and selling timber
• How timber buyers reduce the potential for financial crimes — buying and receiving timber
• Controlling timber harvesting activities
• Controlling and protecting the business — the role of foresters, managers, administrators, auditors, and investigators
• Other crimes in woodland operations and the role of law-enforcement agencies
• The time and place for remote video surveillance
• Eight simple rules for allowing financial crimes to occur

All those with responsibility for, and financial interest in, woodland operations should consider attending, including landowners, timber buyers, timber sellers, logging contractors, accountants, administrators, attorneys, and managers and realtors involved in and interested in the buying and selling of forest products, timber, and timberland.

Tom Kazee graduated from West Virginia University in 1976 and Pepperdine University in 1980. His professional career includes 8 years as a forest manager on the coasts of North Carolina and Virginia, as well as 15 years as a woodlands auditor. He is a registered forester and a member of the Society of American Foresters and the Association of Consulting Foresters. Tom is president of Woodland Security, Inc.

Woodland Security, Inc., is an independent woodlands audit firm dedicated to reducing the potential for financial crimes in woodland operations. Clients include Wachovia, Molpus Timberlands, Georgia-Pacific, Plum Creek Timberlands, Resource Management Service, and others. Based near Jackson-ville, Florida, Woodland Security, Inc., operates intensively across the Southeastern United States, providing assessment, training, process improvement, routine audit, and video surveillance services.

The fee for this course is $225, which includes lunch, refreshment breaks, and instructional materials. There is a $30 discount for fees paid by check or credit card and postmarked by October 23, 2006. Preregistration must be accompanied by check, purchase order, or credit card number to guarantee a place in each course. Limited seating is available. Transfer Fee: The Georgia Center will charge a $50 processing fee for a second course transfer, if applicable.

• 7.0 Continuing Forestry Education hours — Category 1
• 7.0 Continuing Logger Education hours — Business
• 7.0 Georgia Real Estate Appraisers Board credits; also accepted by the Georgia Real Estate Commission

Full Attendance Is Mandatory to Receive Credit.

If you are not satisfied with this course, we will refund your registration fee. Third Course Free! Attend two forestry courses in 2006 as a paid participant and get the third course (with equal or lower course fee) for free. Contact Nette Penn, at 706-542-6658 or Nette.Penn@georgiacenter.uga.edu, before you register for the third course. Fourth Person Free! Register three people from your organization and the fourth person is free. All registrants must be with the same program (same address and same budget), and the registration fees must be paid in advance by check or credit card.

This optional one-hour course focuses on case studies to illustrate the place of ethics in the practice of forestry. It meets the ethics requirement for registered foresters in Georgia.

These courses are cosponsored by the University of Georgia Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Con-ference Center & Hotel, which is located on the beautiful, historic campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. As a unit of UGA's Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, the Georgia Center brings the University's teaching, research, and service expertise to the people of Georgia and beyond! For more information, visit www.georgiacenter.uga.edu.

Special Needs:
If you require special services, facilities, or dietary considerations, contact your event coordinator, Nette Penn at 706-542-6658 or Nette.Penn@georgiacenter.uga.edu at least five business days before your event or prior to November 6, 2006.

Location
Visit the Macon-Bibb County Convention & Visitors Bureau Web site for a list of hotels www.maconga.org. Choose hotels in the I-75 area for convenient access to the Georgia Forestry Commission.

Program Cancellation Policies:
(1) Full refunds are available for cancellations made by 5:00 p.m. ET, November 2, 2006. No refunds will be issued thereafter; substitutions will be allowed. (2) If a program is cancelled for any reason, the Georgia Center will not be responsible for any charges related to travel. (3) If for unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances an instructor is unable to attend, the Georgia Center reserves the right to substitute a comparable instructor.