Forest Business Network

Malheur Forest revamps plans: Officials plans for a new offering to keep local industry alive

Craig Rawlings — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:11:04 +0000

After months of preparation, the Malheur National Forest said this week it can’t offer a 10-year stewardship timber contract after all.

Four Forest Restoration Initiative implementation begins

Craig Rawlings — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:56:04 +0000

Almost one year ago, the Forest Service announced the contractor for the first stewardship contract awarded under the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI).

Oregon family’s sawmill fails as logs, way of life dwindle

Craig Rawlings — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:49:46 +0000

Jennifer Phillippi’s grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses, and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out.

Film about London elm trees wins award from GLA and Forestry Commission

Craig Rawlings — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:02:46 +0000

Forty years ago Dutch elm disease swept through Britain killing millions of trees. Now a conservation charity which helped bring elm trees back to the streets of Fitzrovia has won an award for its short film about London elms.

Forestry Tasmania timber test

Craig Rawlings — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:39:40 +0000

Forestry Tasmania allowed a small group of forest contractors to test the quality of some logs that had been sitting on the Burnie wharf, destined for export to China.

Arizona’s Four Corner Forest Products sawmill is now fully-operational; public open house

TBS12 — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:04:33 +0000

Vaagen Brothers Lumber owns and operates the sawmill and runs a high-speed mobile HewSaw that churns out lumber from wildfire salvage and fuels reduction projects in Northeast Arizona and Northwest New Mexico. An open house is scheduled for May 29.

High-tech plant rises from ashes of old sawmill in Fox Creek, Alberta

Craig Rawlings — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:08:53 +0000

It was late in the shift when the blaze erupted, touched off by an electrical arc in the main breaker panel.

St. Joe Co., Green Circle propose AN Railway-served pellet plant in Florida

Craig Rawlings — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:32:58 +0000

The St. Joe Co. announced yesterday it signed a letter of intent with Green Circle Bio Energy Inc. to jointly encourage economic development opportunities in northwest Florida, including the potential to make the Port of Port St. Joe operational.

Alabama man uses wood chips in place of gas to fuel truck

Craig Rawlings — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:27:42 +0000

Driving along the highway, it was impossible to tell that the back of the small pickup was laden with 5,000 pounds of three black steel barrels.

Small Log Conference hosts first reverse trade mission

Craig Rawlings — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:22:51 +0000

Attendees came from around the globe, many of them ready to do business. Started in 2004 by TimberWest Magazine, the Small Log Conference (SLC) has always been international, but this time around, it morphed into a reverse trade mission, as well.