by Working Forest | Sep 11, 2019 | Archives
The first full back-to-work / school week for September 2019 did not bode well for North American construction framing softwood lumber prices, said Madison’s LumberReporter Monday. While wholesaler prices of many wood home building materials stayed flat, and there...
by Working Forest | Sep 11, 2019 | Archives
Global TV News — Trouble in B.C.’s forestry sector continues, with yet another curtailment being announced that could affect up to 800 workers. Surrey-headquartered Teal Jones Group said Tuesday that it was halting all coastal logging operations in the Fraser...
by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2019 | Archives
Nairn Centre, -–The small Nairn Centre sawmill that founders Myron Austin and Benjamin F. Merwin established in 1949 got a big celebration as employees, families, partners, and members of the community marked its 70th anniversary. On the banks of the Spanish River,...
by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2019 | Archives
CBC NEWS — Canada’s boreal forests are producing more carbon than they capture during bad forest-fire years, and a new report from Wilfrid Laurier University expects this trend to continue. “The boreal forest is a really critical carbon store for the...
by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2019 | Archives
BRATTLEBORO, VT, — Long Falls Paperboard, the company that this year bought the former Neenah Paper Inc. plant in Brattleboro, is using a $1 million federal grant to study using wood biomass instead of the natural gas that is delivered to the factory in trucks...
