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USDA Sets Dates For Softwood Check-Off Program Referendum

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today that a continuance referendum will be conducted among eligible domestic (U.S.) manufacturers and importers of softwood lumber from August 1 through Aug. 25, 2016. The...

Saving America’s Forests One Wooden Building At A Time

If the invention of steel forged the high-rise, the iconic building’s future may be pine. This fall, the future will be under construction in the United States. A 12-story high-rise built primarily of wood is set to go up in Portland, Ore., like giant Lincoln...

America’s First Wood High-Rise Building To Debut In Oregon

Wood is a go-to material for floors, doors, furniture, and now, a skyscraper—the very first of its kind in the U.S. Construction on Portland, Oregon’s wood high-rise, Framework, is slated to begin this October. The 12-story mixed-use building—a collaboration between...

USDA Kills Hardwood Checkoff Program

There will be no Hardwood Checkoff promotions program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has stopped the rulemaking process on the controversial “Hardwood Lumber and Hardwood Plywood Promotion, Research and Information Order.” Published in the Oct. 28...