Business Wire (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal Forest Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: UFPI) today announced its results for the second quarter of 2008. Net earnings in the quarter were $11.7
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
By Hal Bernton and Justin Mayo, Seattle Times Jul. 13--BOISTFORT VALLEY, Lewis County -- When Weyerhaeuser began clear-cutting the Douglas firs on the slopes surrounding Little Mill Creek, local water officials were on edge.
Darwiniana (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
NRo has West and Derbyshire on Lousiana law, first West here, Derbyshire in another post. Louisiana Confounds the Science Thought Police Neo-Darwinism is no longer a protected orthodoxy in the Bayou State’s pedagogy. By John G. West To the chagrin of the science thought police, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law an act to protect teachers who [...]
NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Recent editorials by timber industry spokespersons are a wildly misleading attempt to promote increased logging of western U.S. forests under the guise of reducing wildland fires and mitigating climate change. The timber industry fails to mention, however, that logging is one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. A recent scientific study found that completely protecting our national...
Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
A controversial Bush administration deal that funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to groups friendly with the timber industry drew inquiries this week from two U.S. senators.
GOAT - A High Country News Blog (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Ron Wyden and Peter DeFazio are planning legislation to protect Old Growth while accelerating "thinning" on Oregon's national forests. Their proposals are likely to win support from the timber industry and most national and regional environmental groups. But they will not make Oregon's federal forests less prone to catastrophic wildfire
MaxRedline (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Plum Creek Timber, the largest private landowner in the USA, used to be everybody's favorite whipping boy. Reviled by conservationists and congressmen alike, they were referred to as "the Darth Vader of the timber industry". In a classic illustration of...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash. Jul. 8--The state Forest Practices Board threw its unanimous support Monday behind a group made up primarily of timber industry officials and conservationists to work on spotted owl habitat protection on private forestlands.
Darwiniana (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Louisiana Confounds the Science Thought Police But why on earth mix this up with the global warming question? Neo-Darwinism is no longer a protected orthodoxy in the Bayou State’s pedagogy. In this environment of politically correct science, thoughtful teachers who want to acquaint their students with dissenting views and conflicting evidence can expect to run afoul of the [...]
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Efforts by the timber industry and the Bush administration to lift protections for a rare West Coast seabird that nests only in old growth forests have been soundly rejected by two different courts. A federal judge in Washington, DC, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals both ruled in favor of retaining federal Endangered Species Act protections for the marbled murrelet.
Thompson Ahern E-News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
(Forbes – Associated Press) The Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports, a lobbying group formed by the U.S. lumber industry, spent $160,000 in the first quarter lobbying about a long-running dispute over Canadian wood imports. U.S. forestry companies argue that Canada subsidizes its softwood lumber industry. The two countries settled the trade fight in late 2006 when Canada agreed to limit lumber shipments...
Coyote Blog (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
What I already knew, before today: When the timber industry was booming, local governments made out well as Federal law gave them a cut of USFS and BLM timber sales dollars in their county. What I already knew, before today:...
City Pages - The Blotter (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
A Minnesota lumber company accuses industry titan Sherwin-Williams of peddling defective wood coating. And of being a big jerk about it.
Caveat Emptor (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
“A Minnesota lumber company accuses industry titan Sherwin-Williams of peddling defective wood coating. And of being a big jerk about it.” When good wood goes bad | City Pages - The Blotter
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Matthew Denholm; 1/7/08 Difficulty securing finance for its $2 billion pulp mill has forced Gunns to seek extensions to wood-supply and sovereign-risk agreements. The timber company had planned to begin construction of the mill in northern Tasmania in September last year, postponing that to January this year due to delays in the federal assessment process. The [...]
