Small Wood News - May 20, 2009
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BREAKING NEWS ~
OR - Tribes Mill for Japan, The timber industry has been hit hard by
the
housing slump. But one mill is still turning out planks and sending
them to Japan
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4643
CO - Log-Lathing Operation Going Under, Economic storms
buffeting
the home-building industry have hit a local lathing operation that
was
turning dead trees into construction-ready logs
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4649
CA - Business Partners Plan To Reopen Bieber Mill
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4669
FEATURED STORIES ~
WA - Collaboration With Colville National Forest Generates Millions
For Economy
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4666
Bill Gives New Meaning To Biomass, A change in the
Waxman-Markey
climate bill makes some material from federally managed forest
eligible
for inclusion in the budding biomass market
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4667
OR - Biomass, Wildfire And Climate Change: Protesting Like It's
1989
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4661
RACE TO WOODY BIOMASS ENERGY & BIOFELS ~
B.C. Company To Turn Wood Waste Into Fuel, CBFI plans to construct
a
biofuel plant that will produce environmentally clean gasoline from the
wood
waste that is currently being under utilized in the area
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4642
Completing Maine's Energy Independence Strategic Vision With Fuel
From Its Forests
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4663
SC - Biomass Plant Will Provide Steam For SRS Operations
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4668
PELLET FUELS & FIREWOOD ~
VT - Windsor schools set to heat with wood pellets
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4654
Ecopellets To Invest EUR110 Million To Develop Wind Farm And
Biomass
Complex In Wales
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4664
VT - Pellet Firm Reaches Deal, A bankrupt wood-pellet dealer has
made a deal with the
state to help make sure he can pay back customers who never got their
wood pellets
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4650
NY - APA Approved New Wood-Pellet Plant
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4651
FOREST BUSINESS MARKETPLACE ~
Japanese Log Imports Fell 34% In 2008 US Replaces Russia As
The Leading Supplier To Japan
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4648
Montana DNRC - Olney Urban Interface, Approximately 31,922
tons
consisting of subalpine fir, Douglas-fir, Engelman spruce, and grand
fir sawlogs
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayAd.asp?id=4655
Montana DNRC - Skyles Lake, Approximately 7,320 tons,
consisting
of Douglas-fir, cedar, and western larch sawlogs is offered for
sale
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayAd.asp?id=4658
Montana DNRC - Lake Creek Salvage, Approximately 25,968 tons
of
Douglas-fir and lodgepole pine sawlogs are offered for sale
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayAd.asp?id=4657
REPORTS – STUDIES ~
New Report Highlights The Competition Between Energy Wood
Buyers
And Traditional Forest Industries, Biomass and pellet markets have been
largely
untouched by this years collapse in fossil energy prices, according to
a new bimonthly
market report published by Hawkins Wright, a firm of London-based
consultants to the
forest products industry
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GRANT’S & RFP’S ~
Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Is Soliciting Start-Up
Proposals
Closing Date: July 10, 2009
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, TRAINING, EQUIPMENT DEMOS ~
The Pellet Fuels Institute announces their 2009 Annual Meeting
July 26-28, Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa in Ponte Vedra
Beach, FL
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4515
2009 Eastern Washington Forest and Range Owners Field Day June 20
Republic, WA
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4660
On-Line Course Woodland Options For Landowners June 1 & August
14, 2009
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4665
EXPO 2009 -- the 30th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment
Exposition
June 11-13, New Orleans, LA
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