Your Timber, Logs, & Woody Biomass Portal

Site Search

Call us: 406-529-3353

RATE CARD | ABOUT US | HELP | PRIVACY POLICY | NEWSLETTER SIGNUP

Sign in to your account:

Don't have an account?

BROWSE ADS
By State/Province

BROWSE
Seller Ads By

Buyer Ads By

Browse Forestry>Industry Trends

News Categories

POST
your News in
Forestry>Industry Trends

Recent Stories

Sino-Forest Posts Higher Q3 Profit
China-based commercial forest plantation operator Sino-Forest Corp.Thursday reported a sharp rise in third-quarter profit.

Timber Falls, But Manufacturing Rises in the Panhandle of Idaho
What stands out from the first annual Economic Outlook Forum that was held in Sandpoint is the extent to which the panhandle continues to grow away from its roots in the timber industry

Timber industry offers hope for forest health
Landscape-changing events are taking place in Colorados forests, and the public is beginning to take notice.

Last man standing
Bonner, MT - Don Pyette has 36 years in the timber industry and a deep respect for wood workers and mill veterans

Global trade of wood chips down 26% in 2009
The international financial crisis has put a damper on global trade of wood chips used for pulp manufacturing in 2009, reports Wood Resources International

PA - State hardwoods industry in a struggle
The worldwide economic downturn hit hard in Pennsylvanias woodlands. Industry groups estimate 25,000 forest products jobs have been lost since 2006

Exports of wood chips from Australia have declined 28% in 2009
However, the country is still the largest chip exporter in the world, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

NY - Keeping forests, profits healthy
The economics of owning forestland and making paper had changed, and so the Finch Paper mill had to change too

BC - Future bright for logging business
"We still have 120 people employed in the area and we are looking at opportunities to expand says Wayne Drury

State Looks To Rebound As Timber Business Declines
Joan Nichols is a strong, no-nonsense woman who has succeeded in the man's man world of the woods

Logging Capacity Crisis Looming?
Over the course of the last year, there has been much discussion of the health of the logging industry. How can logging companies maintain profitability in the face of housing and general economic slumps?

Logging contractors lose financial backing
Loans called for up to 35 British Columbia coast operators after financier goes into receivership

Vt. Wood Energy Assets Go To Auction
The good news for creditors is that the assets of Vermont Wood Energy Co., sold for $63,385 Thursday

AL - Falling Timber Industry Hits Backwoods US Hard
PINE HILL, Al - Dereck Autry always thought he would spend his entire career like his father at the Weyerhauser wood products mill outside this tiny backwoods town. It was steady work and his dad told him: "You can raise a family there."

AU - Forest Federation Backs $20m Plantation Rescue Package
The Forest Industries Federation of Western Australia has thrown its support behind a $20 million rescue package for six of Great Southern Limited's failed plantation projects

MT - More Log Home Builders Seek Loans
Two more struggling log home builders in Ravalli County are seeking low-interest loans from a new federal and state stimulus program

AZ - Yale Professor Says Future Of Wood Industry Bleak
The outlook for the forest industries is bleak at the moment, but there is hope, says Lloyd C. Irland, the "Forest Economist" professor from Yale's School of Forestry and Economic Studies

MT - Regional Wood Products Mills Receive Millions
Millions of state and federal dollars went to local companies Thursday in an effort to save timber industry jobs

MT - Timber Parts Company Closes Doors
After 42 years in the timber products industry, Larry Stockton is hanging up his hard hat

NB - Forestry Firm Facing Uncertainty
The timber fund's major consumer of softwood sawlogs, Fraser Papers Inc.'s Edmundston sulphite pulp mill, remains offline

MT - Stimulus Funds To Aid Timber Industry Trickle In
We're very confident that all of the loan funds will be out the door in the next 30 days, if not sooner than that, state Commerce Director Tony Priete said this week

Equity Group Buying Oregon-Based Lumber Wholesaler
North Pacific Group, Inc., one of the nation's largest wholesale distributors of wood products, has signed a letter of intent to sell all of its stock to a private equity firm

SPI Readies For Economic Recovery
Based in Anderson, Sierra Pacific Industries or SPI is a third-generation, family-owned and operated forest products company that is the second-largest lumber producer in the United States with sales in 2008 estimated at $1.5 billion

Plum Creek Timber Q2 Profit Edges Up, Beats Estimates
Plum Creek Timber Co. Inc. (PCL: News ) Monday said its second quarter profit edged up from the prior year, driven by lower expenses and a substantial gain from the sale of Wisconsin timberland

HI - Big Island Sawmill Faces New Setback
A former Pacific Northwest logger facing foreclosure on the Haina Mill property has suffered another setback to his plan to turn the former sugar mill into a sawmill

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Small Log Conference 2009
CLICK HERE

TimberBuySell.com is a division of the Montana Community Development Corporation