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Minister praises Castlegar's wood use
Minister of Forests and Range Pat Bell was impressed with the City of Castlegars use of wood products in the construction of its new city hall and municipal facilities.

Mobile 'Biochar' Machine To Work The Fields
An ancient technique to fertilize soil by creating charcoal from plant waste is being revived to tackle some of today's environmental problems

Southern New Jersey Boardwalk Officials Search For The Right Wood (Or Plastic)
A stack of sample materials sits in Wildwood development director Lou Ferrara's office, evidence of the city's ongoing search for the next big thing in boardwalks

OR - Poplar Mill Markets New Wood
The new sawmill, tucked amid the company's 30,000-acre poplar plantation, employs about 33 on one shift, half as many as needed to run it full time.

NL - No More Trucking Out
Forestry Holson Forest Products and province team up to save woods industry

WA - Forest Concepts Sorts The Wood From The Wood
The USDA Small Business Innovation Research program awarded Forest Concepts with a two-year $350,000 Phase II contract to advance the development of their technologies for reprocessing hog fuel and other chipped woody biomass

Arkansas Company Expands Into Manufacturing
ETWs main enterprise is producing and supplying wood shavings primarily to the poultry industry for use as bedding in buildings

OR - In Decimated Timber Industry, Tribes Find Niche Market
The Northwest timber industry has been decimated by the nationwide housing slump. But one mill is still churning out planks

CA - Keeping Compost, Mulch In The Community
Full-service green and food waste processor strives to put 100 percent of the raw materials it receives back into the community as mulch and compost products

OR - Slash To Cash: Local Plant Expanding
Hometown entrepreneurs at Elkhorn Biomass in Baker City are planning a $2 million expansion to turn wood wastes and slash from forest thinning into briquettes and compressed fire logs

TX - Galveston's Dead Trees May Help Repair Ship
Instead of a date with a dump, live oaks killed by Hurricane Ike in Galveston may get an unusual second lease on life

New Wood-Fibre Product Holds Promise For Forestry Industry
The biggest hope for Canadas struggling forest industry could be something very small with a big name nanocrystalline cellulose

Facilitate a Reliable and Sustainable Supply of Biomass
Links to all of the states that have biomass supply assessments are now available on the Forest Service Woody Biomass Utilization web site

NB - Researcher Uses Pulp Residue To Replace Fertilizer
In a lab in Fredericton, soil researcher Sherif Fahmy is turning garbage into profit

Front Range Wood Collection Sites Ramp-Up to Accept Beetle-Killed Wood
Front Range wood collection sites, made available to the public through the Peak to Peak Wood Program, have ramped up early to gather pine beetle-infested wood before the beetles fly in mid-summer.
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AU - Mulherin Opens New Timber Composites Research Facility
Minister for Primary Industries, Fisheries, and Rural and Regional Queensland Tim Mulherin today officially opened the new $1.3 million Timber Composites Research Facility at Salisbury

Tokyo Tests Wooden Sidewalk
One of the world's biggest cities is trying out a wooden sidewalk to see if it helps keep pedestrians' feet cooler in hot weather, Tokyo officials say

WA - What's With All The Logs?
Piles of timber dominate the landscape at the Boise Cascade mill site near I-82 in Yakima on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. Since the mill shut down, the land is mostly used for log storage

MI - Urbanwood Finds Creative Uses For Ann Arbor's Felled Trees
Urbanwood is a partnership project that works to rescue felled city trees in southeast Michigan and route them to small, local sawmills

Salvaging Underwater Timber In The Panama Canal
Timber isnt the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of the Panama Canal, but this fall Beck staff learned there is a direct connection

SD - What To Do With All The Extra Wood
The Black Hills National Forest has thousands of tons of wood that must either be burned or used for some good purpose, like making formula one race car fuel.

VT - Calais Inventor Brings Wood Chip Systems To Schools
Inventor Carl Bielenberg helped install the state's first wood chip heating system not long after he moved to the state 27 years ago

Efficiency with Log Scanning
Nowadays, even small size sawmills are using this technology with good success, but one of the pending questions is how to use it for the greatest benefit.

NY - Green Energy Resources Wins NYC Woodchip Contract
Green Energy Resources (Pink Sheets:GRGR) has won the contract for New York City's woodchips. The volume of chips is in the 10,000 to 100,000 ton range

UT: Operation aims to help hillside burned by fire
Residents near Corner Canyon in Draper had to deal with a lot of noise today from helicopters, which were doing an operation designed to save hundreds of homes.

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