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Source: NWFA Environmental Benefits of Wood Floors . Wood flooring is the most abundantly renewable flooring material available. Sustainable forest management makes it possible to harvest wood without any serious impact on the environment, because trees are a renewable resource that can be regrown time and time again. Average annual net growth for hardwoods is […]
Source: Forest 2 Market Measuring Forest Sustainability The biological sustainability of a forest can accurately be measured via two primary methods. The first method seeks to measure the volume of forest inventory; analyzing inventory changes over time is an effective way to gauge the balance of growth and removals in a specific geographic area. In […]
Source: Great Falls Tribune Montana’s Natural Resource Industry Faces.Challenges The year 2016 has unfolded as an extremely challenging one for Montana’s natural resource industries. Whether talking about challenges facing timber, how the situation in Colstrip and coal country affects families and state coffers, or how mining, quarrying, and cement can continue to contribute to our […]
Source: Flathead Beacon Governor announces initiative focused on improving forest management BY DILLON TABISH SEELEY LAKE — Days before the final logs rolled through the Weyerhaeuser Company’s plywood plant and lumber mill in Columbia Falls, the pending closure cast a pall over the stacks of freshly cut pine and fir at Pyramid Mountain Lumber. Family […]
Source: The Forest Blog By Russ Vaagen The current trajectory of our forests isn’t the beautiful, healthy evergreen forests most people think. Our National Forests are dying and burning at an alarming rate. Regardless if you believe in climate change or if it’s human caused, the fact remains that our forests aren’t green. They stand to […]