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Boise Cascade Acquires Washington Sawmill

Boise Cascade Acquires Washington Sawmill Boise Cascade Wood Products recently announced it acquisition of the Stimson Lumber Company sawmill in Arden, Wash. The mill will become part of Boise Cascade’s Inland Region, which includes mills in La Grande, Island...

Fifty Jobs Lost In Seattle-Snohomish Mill Closure

Fifty Jobs Lost In Seattle-Snohomish Mill Closure The Seattle-Snohomish Mill in Snohomish, Wash. will close in March after more than 70 years in business. The mill, which currently employs 50 people, first opened in Snohomish in 1941. “This is a very difficult...

Canada Pleased With Softwood Lumber Agreement Extension

The agreement that ended many years of trade disputes over duties and other barriers to selling wood across the Canada-U.S. border was set to expire in 2013, but will be extended until 2015, and industry associations across Canada are pleased with the news. President...

B.C. Achieves Record Lumber Exports Goal

The province of British Columbia has set a new record that many believed to be unattainable. With lumber export sales of 4.28 billion board feet as of November, exports to China have already surpassed the province’s 2008 goal of exporting four billion board feet...

U.S., Canada Extend Softwood Lumber Agreement

A two-year extension to the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) has been agreed upon, extending the program to October 2015 and granting stability to the volume softwood trade between the U.S. and Canada. The SLA was originally signed by the U.S. and Canadian...

Canal Wood Takes Hit For Timber Practices

Canal Wood, the nation’s largest privately held provider of wood fiber supply chain services, has paid the U.S. government $520,064 as settlement related to findings that Canal failed to report approximately 1,000 timber scale tickets on settlement sheets for timber...