Association of Forest Entrepreneurs under the name of Mieczysław Wierzbicki in Goluchów 

Association of Forest Entrepreneurs (AFE) was created in 1992 by group of companies established primarily by the employees of State Forest Service (under leadership of MR. Mieczysław Wierzbicki) who took over the works in the forests on their own account. It has been estimated that nearly 60 thousand employees left National Forests within privatisation period and were employed in private forest companies.

Association was established by it’s members in order to help one another in solving increasing problems connected with the privatization of the service and to realize common intentions and plans. We wanted to have our representatives in the negotiations with our principals and other institutions which influence the forest management and policy. The society was founded in order to coordinate the cooperation with the State  Forests Organisation.

Today (2006) Association consists of 205 members, and directly represents approximately 4000 forest workers. Private forest service sector is the only acceptable model nowadays, and therefore today the role of AFE has increased significantly as the only institutionalized representation of 40 000 people working in Polish Forests.