by Web Editor | Mar 25, 2013 | News
Housing starts in February rose 0.8% from January, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 917,000, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. The rate is 27.7% above February 2012. Single-family starts were running at a 618,000 annual rate, up 0.5% from January. In addition,...
by Web Editor | Mar 18, 2013 | News
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead attended a ribbon cutting today at the Saratoga Forest Management Mill. The sawmill is up and running again after closing down in 2003. The mill will employ a total of 80 people and support 40-50 loggers. “It is exciting to see this sawmill...
by Web Editor | Mar 15, 2013 | News
Lumber futures have climbed to their highest level since 2005 and they have gained around 9% this year, with most of that gain seen just this month as the outlook for U.S. housing improves. “Lumber, like other raw commodity goods, is a good indication of economic...
by Web Editor | Mar 13, 2013 | News
Greg Turner hoisted himself up with a rope from an unlighted 20-foot pit in an abandoned mine in Durham, Pennsylvania. His task of counting bats didn’t take long — just seven where five years ago there were 4,000. “There’s nobody home, basically, at this point,”...
by Web Editor | Mar 11, 2013 | News
There’s no way North American stud lumber sawmills will be able to keep up with the recovering U.S. housing market, new research being compiled by the International Wood Markets Group shows. The shortage of studs — boards used to frame walls in residential houses — is...
by Web Editor | Mar 8, 2013 | News
Interfor Completes Acquisition Of Rayonier’s Wood Products Business International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) announced that it had completed the acquisition of Rayonier’s Wood Products Business in the U.S. South, as scheduled on March 1st. The...
