Acadian Timber scales back A weak outlook predicted for next year across all forest products markets has caused Acadian Timber Income Fund (TSX:ADN.UN) to cut the value of cash distributions to those with a stake in the company
AK - Tongass wars flare over Logjam timber sale Conservation groups and the U.S. Forest Service have fought for decades over management of the country's largest national forest. The wrangling has gone on for so long it has a name: The Tongass Wars
Missoula MT Society of American Foresters Firewood Fund Raiser Full log truck load of standing dead, recently cut Lodgepole firewood for sale
The Promise Of The Biomass Crop Assistance Program Without responsible oversight, the benefits of the Biomass Crop Assistance Program could fall victim to its own popularity.
Salazar reveals new Oregon timber plan Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announces a Western Oregon timber plan that would yield 230 million board feet of timber over the next year
BC - Coastal first nations loggers land China export deal The largest first nations-owned logging company in the province has begun shipping logs to China, bringing jobs and revenues into the province's economically hard-hit northwest
BCAP Revisited Forest2Mill's newsletter article about the Biomass Crop Assistance Program generated significant interest and, it turns out, controversy
California's Timber Industry Strikes Gold Thanks to a decision handed down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
MT - Bitterroot helicopter logging company receives honor, loses contract R&R Conner Aviation got good news and bad news, both in the same day
Loggers, loggers, loggers -- we needed more loggers And they came from all over the countryFrom disaster, S.C. emerges as national success story after hurricane Hugo
Imports of logs, lumber and pulp to China increase substantially China became the major import destination for many globally traded forest products in 2009
Oregon Forestry board votes to increase logging on Tillamook and Clatsop forests John Blackwell, chairman of the board, said the new plan will replace one approved in 2001 that never delivered on promises of timber production, fish and wildlife habitat or recreational opportunities.
The Brazilian Pulp Industry Increase Production And Pulpwood Costs Are Going Up In 2009 Brazil increased pulp production in 2008 by about eight percent. Wood fiber costs haveremained unchanged in the local currency in the 2Q/09 but were eight percent higher in
US dollar terms as compared to the previous quarter
OR - When the Bough Breaks Oregons new plan for the Tillamook State Forest calls for more cuts, but critics say it wont help the states flagging timber industry
CA - Greenhouse Gas Lawsuits Force Timber Company Cancellation Logging Plan In response to recent lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity, plans to log more than 1,600 acres of Sierra Nevada forest have been formally withdrawn by Sierra Pacific Industries
Wood Costs Were 53% Of The Total Production Costs For Pulp Mills Worldwide In The 1Q/09 The largest cost component when manufacturing wood pulp is the cost of wood fiber. In the 1Q/09, this cost was 53% of the total production cost worldwide
European Demand For Wood Fiber Recently, the Wall Street Journals Russell Gold reported that the wood pellet industry in the United States is being driven largely by European utility companies
Pulpmills In The US South Had Some Of The Lowest Wood Fiber Costs In The World In The 2Q/2009 The US South has the largest pulp industry in the world and this industry has enjoyed low wood raw-material costs for a very long time
MT - Taking Control Of The Machine Sherm Anderson got into the timber business when he was about 9 years old, spending his spare time working in a small mill and on logging crews run by his father
AL - Ketchikan Mill Is Awarded Orion North Timber The U.S. Forest Service agreed Monday to sell timber to a Ketchikan mill in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest after the Obama administration's approved the sale
Ghana Announces Removal Of Taxes On Imported Timber At an ITTO-sponsored conference in Ghana, Ghanas Vice President John Mahama announced the removal of taxes on logs and sawn timber in an effort to boost the timber industry
The Black Liquor Tax Credit In The US Has Limited The Fall Of Wood Chip And Pulpwood Prices In 2008, US pulp companies started to take advantage of a loophole in the US tax law, which will result in an influx of billions of dollars to a struggling industry
Wood Chip Import Prices To Japan Reached Record Highs In The 4Q/08 Wood fiber consumption by the Japanese pulp industry reached a record high in 2008. Over 72 percent of the consumed wood chips were imported, most from hardwood
plantations in the Southern Hemisphere
The Slumping Economy Has Reduced Sawlog Prices In Europe And North America Softwood lumber markets have continued to weaken and as a result, demand for sawlogs has fallen worldwide and the Global Conifer Sawlog Price in the 1Q/2009 was down 26
percent from a year ago
Burmese Junta Allows Felling Of 100,000 Tons Of Timber Per Company Annually Both hardwood and teak from forests are Kachin State is mainly transported to neighbouring China through the two countries border in Kachin State and Rangoon, former capital of the country for export, said local timber companies sources