Category: Forest Products Industry related
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 […]
Source: Missoula Independent Ron Porter likens the devastation wrought by the Roaring Lion Fire to “losing a friend you’ve had for 70 years.” That’s how long he’s lived in the shadow of Ward Mountain south of Hamilton, and almost how long he’s worked at his family’s Porterbilt Post & Pole. The fire that has so […]
Source: Cool Green Science What can we do to slow climate change and restore America’s forests? I used to think the answer was to plant more trees. Boom. Done. Mic drop. But wait, that’s not the whole story. Our remaining forests face great challenges like massive wildfires and invasive forest pests. Managing for this array […]
Source: Missoulian A Bitterroot National Forest timber thinning project that’s been in the works for nearly five years has gone up in smoke as a result of the Roaring Lion fire. The Westside Collaborative Vegetation Management Project proposed to thin about five miles of national forest lands that border private property between Lost Horse and […]
Source: FAO.org The Paris Agreement, adopted by 195 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2015, recognizes the urgency of climate change and calls for limiting the increase in global temperatures to well below 2°C compared with pre-industrial levels, with an ambition to limit the increase to 1.5°C. It recognizes […]
Source: Naturally:Wood As building products, systems and technologies evolve, one material remains in demand: wood. Wood costs less – economically and environmentally – and it’s one of the most beautiful, versatile, durable and renewable materials available. Wood costs less and delivers more Wood-frame construction is typically faster, material costs are lower and construction techniques are […]
Source: K-PAX MISSOULA –The Montana DNRC is encouraging residents in forested areas to take proactive steps in reducing fire danger around their homes by offering to pay for some or even all of the costs involved with thinning surrounding forests. Steve Siebert is a forestry professor at the University of Montana and knows the importance […]
Source: Phys.org Forests take up 25-30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide—a strong greenhouse gas—and are therefore considered to play a crucial role in mitigating the speed and magnitude of climate change. However, a new study that combines future climate model projections, historic tree-ring records across the entire continent of North America, and how […]
Source: Property and Environment Research Center Wildfire is an increasingly politicized issue in the United States. With large swathes of the West literally going up in flames, D.C. politicians are squaring off over how to fund firefighting. Facing a severe fire season, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is using over half of its $5 billion […]
Source: Log Cabin Hub How well do you know the history of lumber around the world? We are very passionate about sustainable architecture at Sustainable Lumber Co. but sometimes it can feel like we don’t recognize how much lumber has changed the world. Log Cabin Hub has just shared an infographic showing civilizations’ use of […]
Source: Linkedin By: Wendy Farrand A hint of daylight seeps through the wooden blinds as I rise from my cherry bed, and go down the old pine stairs to the kitchen to make my husband’s lunch. Holding onto the oak banister, I make my way slowly as my muscles wake up. Moving over the wide pine […]