Logging industry has a history of turning problems into opportunities The Van Norman family's self-built wood grinder didn't surprise Vince Randall, forest manager for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Glendale Resource Area
AR - Lumber company celebrates centennial despite troubled times James Bibler recalls a day when things were simpler, but in his line of business, simpler doesnt necessarily mean better
Bull trout, loggers and goshawks all won in an appeal settlement on the While the logging plan was reduced by almost half its acreage,
representatives of both the Lolo National Forest and appellant Alliance
for the Wild Rockies agreed the final plan works better.
MN - Wood Products Company Weathers The Economic Storm Working harder on improving systems, packaging efficiencies and product diversification, company carves out a path to broaden operations
WA - Forester Honored For Efforts To Ease Federal Timber Supply McGees involvement serves as template for forest management
Agriculture Secretaty Vilsack Names Jay Jensen As Deputy Under Secretary Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of Jay Jensen as USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment (NRE). In this position, Jensen will have responsibility for the U.S. Forest Service
Whole Foods Paper Bags Receive Forest Stewardship Council Certification Whole Foods Market will begin offering Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified paper bags at its checkout counters next month
Cloquet's Berthiaume Logging Named Minnesota Logger Of The Year The Minnesota Sustainable Forestry Initiative Implementation Committee (SIC) named Cloquets Berthiaume Logging, LLC, as its 2009 Logger of the Year
BioHeatUSA Rceives Industry Award For Innovative Boiler BioHeatUSA of Lyme, NH and Oak Creek, Colorado has been honored by Hearth and Home Magazine with a 2009 Vesta award for the new Frling P4 Pellet Boiler
Indiana State Forester, Don Stump Honored by the American Tree Farm System The American Tree Farm System, a program of the American Forest Foundation, recognized Don Stump with their National Field Leadership Award
CA - Lady Expert Sawyer To Show Off Skills At Logging Conference Gia Carrozzi is working against the odds, as a woman running a successful milling business amid the male-dominated, seemingly sinking timber industry
MS - Longtime Sawmill Weathering Troublesome Market Columbus Lumber has resisted curtailment and still offers its employees 40 hours per week, owners said. Logs still arrive, the great saws and blades still bite and sales are still made
CO - Livermore Inventor Turns Slash To Fertilizer Livermore resident Andre Roy is making fertilizer from used Christmas trees and beetle-killed slash using a simple mechanical process others call "revolutionary."
NC - Whole Log Lumber Company Increases Sales By Recycling Antique Wood Whole Log Lumber Company had a banner year in 2008 and is enjoying robust 2009 sales despite the economic despair that grips many American businesses. Last year, the company's sales surged nearly 50 percent
BC - Niche Markets Receive Local Timber Despite the economic downturn and its impact on the forest industry, Harold Macy is doing quite well
Request for Nominations - Best Wood Energy Examples The Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC) is preparing a set of case studies of exemplary community scale woody biomass installations in the US, Canada and Europe
BC - Local Chief And Forestry Company Create Totem Manhousaht hereditary Chief James Swan and Iisaak Forest Resources have just completed the totem project, which was part of Swan's now-completed Fine Arts Degree
MS - 50 Years In Bruce Don Bell didnt know anything about Bruce, Mississippi, before being sent here by D.L. Fair Lumber Company. Fifty years later, he couldnt imagine ever living anywhere else
BC - Logger Invents Forestry Board Game - Gypo Logging Longtime Squamish, B.C. logger Trevor Bergstrom has invented "Gypo Logging" - a forestry board game.
AU - Future Bright For Timber Industry THE outlook for private forestry is much more promising than it was a few years ago, according to a specialist timber producer
OR - R&R King Logging Wins Business Award Besides managing a nearly 100-year-old family business, Florence residents Bob and Kay King have accomplished what no other logging company in Oregon has done: win an Austin Family Business Award
MT - Whispering Turbines to be featured on The History Channel In addition to the working with the world's fastest race boats, WTI's Tracy Bratvold and son Adam also service helicopters used in the Pacific Northwest's timber industry
France - Peeling Back the Bark Exploring the collections, acquisitions, and treasures of the Forest History SocietyFeed on Posts Comments The 10th and 20th Forestry Engineers of WWI
OR - Tall order? Not really Sustainable logging sounds like an oxymoron,but business owners set out to make it possible
ME - Hancock Sawmill Earns Award For Leadership In Reducing Energy Use By installing more efficient equipment, Hancock Lumber Companys Bethel Saw Mill has reduced its electrical usage by 25 percent