|Exhibit
        31.1
      CERTIFICATION
        PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
      INLAND
        FIBER GROUP, LLC AND SUBSIDIARY
      I, John M. Rudey, certify
        that:
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| | a) | designed such disclosure controls and procedures,
      or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
      supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant,
      including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within
      those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being
      prepared;           
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| | b) | evaluated
      the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures
      and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of
      the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered
      by this report based on such evaluation; and                                                                                                            
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| | c) | disclosed
      in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over
      financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent
      fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case
      of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely
      to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial
      reporting;
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| | 5. | The registrant’s
      other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent
      evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s
      auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors
      (or persons performing the equivalent function);
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| | a) | allsignificant
      deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal
      control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely
      affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and
      report financial information; and
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| | b) | any fraud,
      whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who
      have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over
      financial reporting.                                                                                                    
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|Date: |  | September21, 2006 |  |  | By: | /s/
      John M. RudeyJohn M. RudeyChairman, President
      andPrincipal Executive Officer