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Oregon’s Warm Springs Forest Products Sawmill Closing

Oregon’s Warm Springs Forest Products Sawmill Closing Fifty years after acquiring a lumber mill on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, tribal leaders announced the permanent closure and impending bankruptcy and liquidation of the Warm Springs Forest Products...

U.S. Green Building Council To Recognize ATFS Certification

This week, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced it is encouraging more responsibly sourced building materials by giving credit for wood from American Tree Farm System (ATFS) certified forests, and other credible forest certification systems such as the...

Some SYP Independents Stay The Course

Some SYP Independents Stay The Course Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-In-Chief, Timber Processing April 2016 Mark Twain wrote: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” or something to that effect. The same might be said of independent southern yellow pine...

Global Softwood Lumber Trade Reaches 10-Year High In 2015

Global trade of softwood lumber reached a 10-year high in 2015, with lumber prices trending downward in many key markets over the course of the year, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. A majority of the 20 largest softwood lumber-consuming countries in the world...