Category: Forest Products Industry related
Source: Forbes It is basic Economics 101. Competitive markets create better outcomes than monopolists. Monopolists restrict supply and charge higher prices. Dynamically, monopolists face fewer incentives to create new products or improve how their products are made. In fact, creating new technologies or processes could undermine a monopolist’s current market dominance. What is true for the marketplace […]
Just another reason to buy local Source: The Telegraph WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers who purchase hardwood floors and furniture products made with illegally cut Russian timber unwittingly may be damaging the last remaining habitat of the endangered and noble Amur tiger. These conclusions are spelled out in a detailed report being released Tuesday by the World […]
Source: Prince George Citizen The map of the mountain pine beetle’s destruction is so big it can’t be contained in one province but the map of the beetle’s genetic makeup is so small it fits inside the molecules of an insect the size of a grain of rice. That genetic makeup has now been revealed […]
Source: Dovetail Partners inc. The Forest Service recently released the report “Future of America’s Forests and Rangelands”,[1] providing an extensive examination of the next 50 years (2010-2060) of natural resource pressures and potential changes in forests of the United States. The report highlights risks for negative impacts to forest resources linked to expansion of urban and […]
Source: U.S. Forest Service U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a House subcommittee today on the economic value generated by the nation’s forests during a time of increased fire activity, encroaching development, pests and disease. Talking to the House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy and Forestry, Tidwell noted that forest restoration […]
Source: Treehugger Michael Green is known to TreeHuggers as the author of The Case for Tall Wood Buildings. However when he spoke at the Wood Solutions Fair in Toronto it became clear that he is perhaps the material’s greatest proselytizer , both in his speaking and in his body of work. He makes an audacious claim: Wood […]
Source: Garden News The Nature Conservancy commends the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry for highlighting the links between forest health and rural economies. Restoring public lands through science-based, active management is good for our American lands and economy. America’s forests, which cover one-third of the United States, provide tremendous value by […]
Source: Missoulian Blue-stained pine and beetle-killed trees dominated the morning discussion at a local business Monday, where a delegation of Chinese and South Korean wood importers continued their Montana tour. With tariffs placed on wood exports from Russia and logging limitations in China, members of the trade mission spent the day in western Montana, looking […]
Source: Missoulian If Montana’s forest fringes continue filling with houses, wildland firefighting costs could double, according to a report by the Bozeman-based Headwaters Economics. “Protecting homes is a major cost and safety issue in fighting fire,” said Headwaters author Chris Mehl. “But the real question is personal responsibility: Who pays for that? Right now, the […]
A common question we get is “why does your beetle kill pine have so much more blue stain and character than what I find at the local lumber yard”? Most beetle kill pine products on the market are sourced from large sawmills using traditional logging practices. Most of them come from the abundance of Lodge […]
Just a reminder why we live in Montana http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_popout&v=BUOQ_yPW_0s Photo compliments of: Big Sky Country Photos
Source: BY JANET URQUHART – ASPEN TIMES · IMAGE BY DAVE POWELL, USDA FOREST SERVICE, BUGWOOD.ORG The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies has developed a four-minute, animated short film, “What’s Happening in Our Forest?” to raise awareness about forest-health issues among the public and policymakers. The film has been submitted to the New York Animated Short Film Festival, and if Chris Lane, […]
Source: NFPA Recent wildfire seasons have provided mainstream media with plenty of material for dramatic images and attention-grabbing headlines, some more accurate than others. We often worry that misleading coverage can deliver the wrong message to the public, but it can also be a problem among wildfire professionals. Lately, I’ve had to re-evaluate my own […]
Source: CBC News The mountain pine beetle is on the move to higher elevations and threatening new species of trees and entire sensitive forest ecosystems, according to a new study. The resilient beetle has wreaked havoc mainly on lodge pole pine in B.C., ruining 18 million hectares of forest — the equivalent of about five […]
Source: The Wildlife Society News During the 2012 fire season from June through August, wildfires in the drought- stricken western and central United States burned more than 3.6 million acres of forest and shrubland. In the hot, dry, windy conditions seen that season, a single spark can start an understory fire that ascends into the […]