The Forest Landowners Association Inc. awarded its annual Young Forest Landowner of the Year award to J. Christian Hendricks. One of only three individual awards issued, this award was presented at the 66th annual Forest Landowners Conference in Charleston. The mission of the FLA is to support, through advocacy, education, and information, a forest landowners' responsible management of their private property (private landowners account for 60% of America’s forests).

Hendricks is president and broker-in-charge of Hendricks and Co., a commercial real estate company in Columbia dealing exclusively in the brokerage of South Carolina acreage and timberland tracts. Using best management practices, Hendricks delicately manages for both timber production and wildlife conservation on timberland tracts. Hendricks spends time with new owners to educate them on timberland ownership and management.

Young Forest Landowners of the Year are judged on several criteria, including training in preparation to practice responsible land management, participation in various forestry related activities, leadership positions attained within forestry associations, significant involvement in better management of forest property and participation in lobbying activities.

Hendricks was nominated by W. Patrick Dorn Jr. of Anchor Investment Management LLC in Columbia.

“Christian Hendricks successfully combines his life-long respect for responsible stewardship and forest management with a career brokering sales of large land and timber tracts throughout South Carolina,” Dorn said.