Scholarship applications are now being accepted from high school and undergraduate college students for the 2017/2018 school year for the Mark E. Reed Scholarship from Green Diamond Resource Company.

This year, 10 of the $3,000 scholarships will be awarded.

Eligible individuals must be Green Diamond Resource Company employees, sons or daughters of Washington employees, or students in one of Green Diamond’s Mason and East Grays Harbor operating communities. The scholarship program was established in 1947 in the memory of Mark E. Reed, Simpson Logging Company president from 1914 until his death in 1933.

Applications for the Mark E. Reed Scholarship program are available on the Green Diamond website, www.greendiamond.com.

Questions can be directed to Kim Buckingham, secretary of the Washington Scholarship Board, at (360) 427-4702 or via email, kbuckingham@greendiamond.com.

The deadline for receiving applications is Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017.

Green Diamond Resource Company is a privately held forest products company that owns and manages working forest lands in Washington, Oregon and California.

In Washington, the company’s forest lands are independently certified under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative standard.