Oct 29, 2014. /Lesprom Network/. F&W Forestry Services, Inc. has acquired an interest in a French forestry management firm that will provide both companies with expanded opportunities for growth - notably in Europe and French-speaking North Africa, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Marshall Thomas, president of Albany, Ga.-based F&W, said his company had acquired an interest in Cabinet Coudert, a full-service forestry management firm based near Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne region in the heart of the forested area of south central France.

Cabinet Coudert is headed by Sylvestre Coudert, grandson of the firm’s founder. The company currently provides forest management services to European forest landowners, largely in France. Under the link-up with F&W, service is expected to be extended to forested areas throughout Europe and North Africa.

Cabinet Coudert maintains four offices, all in France, but provides forestry services through France, Europe, and forested French-speaking regions of northern Africa.

Established in 1962, F&W Forestry Services, Inc., of Albany, Ga., is one of the nation’s oldest and largest forest consulting and management firms.