by Web Editor | Dec 16, 2011 | News
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has appointed 19 representatives to serve on the first national Softwood Lumber Board to oversee the new “check-off” lumber promotion effort. Members will serve two-, three- or four-year terms. Members appointed to represent U.S....
by Web Editor | Dec 12, 2011 | News
A group of 120 shareholders who invested in a failed Watson Lake sawmill 13 years ago are hopeful they’ll be paid back soon by Ottawa if a federal court of appeals upholds their award. The sawmill went bankrupt and ran out of wood in 2000, costing 150 jobs. The...
by Web Editor | Dec 11, 2011 | The Issues
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief In case you’ve forgotten, the U.S. Forest Service does still exist? Many in our industry have forgotten about this agency, perhaps even chosen to forget it, ever since our industry became barely a blip on the Forest Service...
by Web Editor | Dec 9, 2011 | News
Canfor Announces Permanent Closure Of Rustad and Tackama Mills After a lengthy indefinite shutdown that followed the collapse of the United States residential housing market in 2008, Canfor Corporation has decided to close its historic Rustad Sawmill in Prince George,...
by Web Editor | Dec 5, 2011 | News
Lewiston Mill Sold To Idaho Forest Group Clearwater Paper Corp. is selling its Lewiston, Idaho sawmill to Idaho Forest Group of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The $30 million transaction includes the sale of Clearwater Paper’s sawmill, planer mill, dry kilns, and...
by Web Editor | Dec 2, 2011 | News
Log and lumber exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska in the first three quarters of 2011 have surpassed the total exports of 2010 according to the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station. “The increasing shipments to China...
