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NH - Consortium seeks to boost wood manufacturers
The Northeast Utilities Foundation has provided a $150,000, two-year grant to help the North Country's wood products manufacturing industry

Endowment and Partners Announce Plan for Conservation Easement Database
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment announced a collaborative initiative to create the first national database of conservation easement information

CA - My View: State Fortunes Will Grow If Forests Are Thinned
David A. Bischel president of the California Forestry Association and a registered professional forester

Timber Products Inspection Inc. Accredited For SFI Chain-Of-Custody Certification
Timber Products Inspection Inc. has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for chain-of-custody certifications to Sustainable Forestry Initiative

U.N. Report: Forestry Can Create 10 Million Jobs
The United Nations is urging countries to invest in green jobs working with "sustainable forest management" to address the growing problem of unemployment worldwide

ID - A Long-Awaited Boon For Timber Country
In the short term, it will be the stimulus bill. The Forest Service alone will get $1 billion, and nearly 20 million acres of Idaho, mostly in the poverty-stricken north, is national forest

Oregon Company Tries To Grow Its Timber Business In China
Portland-based GreenWood Resources is about to wager up to $300 million on China, where soaring demand for cabinets, paper and furniture makes wood a hot commodity

MT - The color of profit: Businessman, tree hugger' join forces with green windows
The partnering of Missoula businessman Bill Clawson, a self-described capitalist, and Missoula writer Peter Stark, who admits to tree-hugging tendencies, makes for an unusual alliance.

Indonesia: Gov offers US$190 million for this years Community Forestry expansions
The government expects to develop forest areas by 400,000 hectares this year and 2.1 million hectares by 2015

First phase of the Montana Legacy Project complete
Nearly 130,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Co. land changed hands Thursday, the first in what eventually will be the largest conservation land purchase in United States history.

Endowment Announces Selection of Forest Investment Zones
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announces the selection of three areas as Forest Investment Zones under a multi-million dollar initiative

The Nature Conservancy Joins Northwest Certified Forestry
This summer TNC made the decision to join Northwest Certified Forestry, enrolling two managed forests in Washington

Association Introduces Market-Centric Plan For Sustainable Forests
State foresters are taking steps to implement a novel proposal that would help the countrys forests pay for their own rescue

BC - CellFor Grabs $10M For Improved Tree Seedlings
Varietal seedlings have the potential to increase timber yields, reduce diseases and produce high-value wood

Steelcase Earns Sustainable Forestry Certification, Pollution Prevention Award
Office furniture maker Steelcase has expanded its environmental credentials by receiving Forest Stewardship Council Chain of Custody Certification, showing its wood products come from sustainably-managed forests

NH - Strategy and Recommendations for Economic Resurgence in the Northern Forest
SEI began in 2006 to advance the findings of the Northern Forest Lands Council 10th Anniversary Forum and its recommendation to create community and economic development strategies

ID - Seeing The Forest For The Trees
Boundary County Forester Provides Landowners with Timber Stategies

CA - Saving The Trees But Not The Forests The Struggle Of The Quincy Library Group
One night in 1984, a group of loggers grabbed Michael Jackson and threw him out of a bar. Nine years later, in 1993, Jackson put this little Sierra Nevada logging town on the map by forming the Quincy Library Group

WA - Milling & Manufacturing Seminar for FSC Markets
Demand for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood products is quickly growing in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the country. Builders are increasingly specifying locally produced and FSC-certified wood products.

U.S. Endowment for Foestry and Communities releases Requests for Pre-proposals (RFPs)
The the Endowment announces an open call for Requests for Pre-proposals (RFPs) under its initiative, Forest Investment Zones: Co-creating Innovation and Learning at the Regional Level.

The Blackfoot Challenge announces Request for Proposal
Seeking proposal's to assess fuels mitigation in the 1.5 million acre Blackfoot River watershed of western Montana

OR: Mill builder signs deal to thin forest
The U.S. Forest Service and the Collins Cos. of Portland, builder of the Upper Columbia Mill near Boardman, recently signed a long-term forest stewardship contract to thin timber on the Fremont National Forest.

Tree farm will feed mill forever
Oregon will have a brand-new sawmill by next summer, marking a change in the way sawmills are operated in Eastern Oregon.

Sustainable Forestry Initiative Program marks record growth
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative program recorded substantial growth in 2007, including a 750% increase in locations with SFI chain-of-custody certification that can track products from certified forests.

Nominations sought for leadership awards
Sustainable Northwest is currently accepting nominations for the 2008 Cecil D. Andrus Leadership Awards for Sustainability and Conservation. Nomination deadline: February 1, 2008.

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