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California Governor Signs Bill Boosting State’s Timber Industry
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday enacting a new tax on lumber sales and restricting legal damages for wildfires. The bill, AB 1492, was pushed through after midnight on the last day of the legislative…
Malheur Lumber To Postpone Closure
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) announced on Tuesday that Malheur Lumber has agreed to remain open past its planned November closure, thanks to a commitment by the U.S. Forest Service to…
Lumber Markets In The U.S. Improving
The North American lumber market has, to a large extent, been a buyers market since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, but is now shifting to a sellers market with the increase in…
West Coast Log, Lumber Exports Down In First Half Of 2012
Log exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska totaled 736 million board feet in the first 6 months of 2012, a decrease of 25% compared to the same time last year, according to the…
Sierra Pacific Industries Reports Record Losses In Recent Wildfires
A record amount of Sierra Pacific Industries land has been torched by the wildfires burning in eastern Shasta County. The nation’s second-largest timber producer estimated that roughly 33,000 acres of its timber had burned as…
Lumber Revival Sweeps The West
West Fraser Timber Co. and Western Forest Products Inc. are leading Canadian lumber producers to the biggest combined profit since 2006 as mills run at five-year highs to feed a U.S. housing rebound and near-record…
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