by Web Editor | Jun 11, 2014 | News
A California timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, the second-largest lumber producer in the nation, is assembling a site at Frederickson in southern Pierce County to build a major new sawmill that could employ as many as 200 workers. The company is still in what...
by Web Editor | Jun 9, 2014 | News
Like the proverbial phoenix, Babine Forest Products is rising from the ashes to once again be an economic driver for those in the Burns Lake area. The mill was entirely destroyed and the lives of two workers were lost when an explosion rocked the mill and the...
by Web Editor | Jun 6, 2014 | News
Log exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska increased by just under 2 percent in volume to 466 million board feet in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the fourth quarter of 2013, the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station...
by Web Editor | Jun 4, 2014 | News
Home construction in California is on the upswing as the housing market slowly recovers from the dramatic downturn of the recession that saw home prices and new construction plummet. Going hand in hand with the increase in home building is the demand for lumber for...
by Web Editor | May 30, 2014 | News
A union representing workers at Canada’s biggest forest products company, Resolute Forest Products, has ratified a new four-year collective agreement covering approximately 2,000 employees at 11 of the company’s mills in Ontario and Quebec. A spokesperson for...
by Web Editor | May 28, 2014 | News
Lonnie Rollins, Larry Mason and Lonnie Adams wore big smiles last week as they chatted with Rough & Ready Lumber owner Jennifer Phillippi. The three men with 75 years of combined experience at the mill were rehired in the past few months, after the entire...
