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Logging Industry News
Logging operation is a mountain of trouble BlueRidgeNow.com In 2009, a Florida bankruptcy judge authorized a timber harvest to raise money to pay debts. The trouble began when logging companies working the Weinhold property failed to follow the forestry industry's best management practices.
New forest-management plan weakens wildlife protection Kansas City Star The timber industry opposes it. Conservationists say it was vital to winning protection for old-growth forests. Now some ecologists and advocates say the Forest Service plan's change on this point would punch a hole through key protections. New Light in the ForestNew York Times
At the cutting edge of logging Mail Tribune Like Hanscom, who isn't shy about taking federal land management agencies and environmental activists to task, Miller defends the logging industry. "What we planted when I first started in the woods we are now harvesting," Miller said.
Extreme challenge for the forestry industry ABC Online Two McKay Timber sawmills and the Barber's sawmill in Launceston have stood down more than 30 workers after Artec, the state's only native woodchip exporter, temporarily closed. But the association's Fred Ralph says the industry is not collapsing yet.
Labor eyed shutdown of native logging The Age A secret report commissioned by the Brumby government found shutting down the native forest logging industry would cost up to 3000 jobs in the central highlands. Photo: Penny Stephens THE Brumby government considered shutting down Victorian native ...
NH lumber industry hopeful Nashua Telegraph By KATHLEEN CALLAHAN The United States and Canada have announced a two-year extension of the Softwood Lumber Agreement, which those in New Hampshire's lumber industry say is good news. “Most everybody that I know that's producing softwood lumber right ...
State Goes Its Own Way to Regulate Forest Roads New York Times More logging, for fire prevention and possibly commercial sale, could be allowed as well. And natural gas drilling could expand into areas that the national rule would hold off limits. But while environmental groups argue that special interests are ...
Oregon timber industry group files lawsuit over marbled murrelet habitat ... OregonLive.com A Portland timber industry group filed a lawsuit alleging the US Fish and Wildlife Service wrongfully designated millions of unsuitable acres as critical marbled murrelet habitat. Tom Partin, president of the American Forest Resource Council, ...
At loggerheads again Mail Tribune No, a coalition of conservation groups have announced their own plan: raise taxes on the timber industry and on residents of timber counties, transfer responsibility for forestlands from the Bureau of Land Management to the US Forest Service and ...
Social media on the agenda; author will discuss blogging at Sierra-Cascade ... Record-Searchlight On Thursday, approximately 800 fourth-graders from Shasta and Trinity counties will go to the fairgrounds to learn about the industry. There will be 60 forestry professionals to lead students around. The logging conference pays to transport the ...
