The 2008 collapse of the housing market devastated California's already faltering lumber industry. The housing market has been slow to recover, but new home construction has risen in the last year. David Bischel of the California Forestry ...
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Australia has moved to prohibit the importation of illegally logged timber with the passage of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2011. A lot of timber products used to build homes in Australia are unwittingly sourced from illegal ...
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Prince George, B. C. - According to the report of the Special committee on timber supply in the province of BC, released today, this province faces a 20% drop of supply in the next 10-15 years. Since the mountain pine beetle (MPB) ...
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In the first round of internet auctions for the second half-year 2012, the Polish national forestry office has raised the supply of logs for returning buyers by 20% against the same period of last year to 9.166m m³. Log sales increased ...
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Strongco Corporation recently reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012. "We are pleased with the continued growth in revenues and operating profits evident in Strongco's results for the second quarter of ...
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Raw log exports keep B. C. Taxpayers working. Del Horn forgets to remember that B. C. Is not the only place in the world to buy lumber from. If he wants raw log exports to stop and the logs made into lumber here in B. C., he must decide on ...
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Garden equipment maker Husqvarna spied uncertainty ahead in key markets on both sides of the Atlantic as growth in the U.S. economy falters and Europe remains mired in its debt crisis. Second-quarter profit for the world's biggest maker of ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The World Resources Institute has launched the Forest Legality Risk Information Tool to help wood products buyers assess illegal logging risks. The WRI, an environmental think tank based here, said the tool is ...
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British sawmills raised their share of the domestic softwood lumber market sharply last year to 41%. This is the result the forestry company UPM Tilhill comes to after assessing data from HMRC. The data shows that lumber imports to the UK ...
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First, it was in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Starting from the late 1990s, many Uganda dealers have raided the rich forests of that volatile eastern part of that country and cut down trees in a smuggling campaign that ...
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Is there a role for logging in ensuring the future of the world’s tropical forests and their rich diversity of plants and animals? For many this idea is absurd, because timber production achieving conservation goals have long been ...
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The timber trade has given further positive reaction to the publication of the Independent Panel on Forestry’s final report to government. As reported in TTJ, the panel has made the bold recommendation that incentives be used to ...
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Hikers in the area of Purgatory Brook may soon encounter a sight not often seen in the woods of Wah Lum: Large trucks and other equipment working on timber harvesting. The project was originally scheduled for the winter but will get under ...
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WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives Committee on Rules could act in the next several weeks on H.R. 3210, which would amend the illegal logging amendments added to the Lacey Act in 2008. The rules committee set Friday as the deadline ...
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Even as Canada declares victory in a major softwood lumber dispute with the United States, the organization representing British Columbia’s forest industry doesn’t expect the persistent American lumber lobby to reduce its ...
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