Smallwood News - June 24, 2009
THIS WEEK’S NEWSLETTER SPONSOR ~ Rawlings Industrial Inc The leading builder of sawmills, chip mills, and planer mills in North America. They have also proven themselves in the construction of pellet mills and have all the tools and skills needed for constructing biomass-to-energy facilities http://www.rawlingsindustrial.com
BREAKING NEWS ~
New Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell says he will move quickly to
ensure that his
agency spends its $1.15 billion share of federal economic stimulus
funding
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4857
Conference in Jackson Wyoming next month will feature a session
on
Woody Biomass: Processing and Utilization of Forest By-Products
and
tours of Yellowstone National Park and organics collection and
composting
facilities in Jackson, plus equipment demonstrations
http://timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4717
Northwest Natural Resource Group Announces NW NEUTRAL - A New Carbon
Emissions Offset
Program based on projects by FSC certified small forest
landowners
http://timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4870
FEATURED STORIES ~
OR - Forest Restoration Project Brings Together Old Enemies In
Logging Wars
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4874
OR - Last Mill Standing In Grant County Struggles To Stay Busy
http://timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayAd.asp?id=4841
RACE TO WOODY BIOMASS ENERGY & BIOFELS ~
From Trees To Electricity: Colorado Springs Utilities Begins
Using
Woody Biomass To Generate Power
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4867
PA - Reinventing Smethports Forest Legacy, Looking ahead,
Smethport
wants to be the first small town in the U.S. with a woody
biomass-fired
combined-heat-and-power district heating system
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4846
IA - "Bio-reactor" being used on Webster City farm, "It's a large
hole in the
ground that's filled full of wood chips and they flood those wood chips
with water
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4864
A Framingham energy company has won a $795 million contract with the
U.S.
Department of Energy to build biomass facilities in Aiken, S.C.,
calling the job the
largest-ever federal energy efficiency project
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4882
PELLET FUELS & FIREWOOD ~
NY - First Biomass Pellet Mill In US To Receive FSC
Certification
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4873
Pellet Fuels Institute Announces Fuel Standards Program
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4852
Pellet Fuels Institute Member Testifies Before Congress, Confluence
Energys Mark
Mathis Asks Congress to open Mountain Pine Beetle Kill Trees to Biomass
Industry
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4851
FOREST BUSINESS MARKETPLACE ~
MT - Alpine Log Homes Closing its Manufacturing Business After 35
Years, The Rolls-Royce
of the log home industry will auction off its manufacturing Assets June
25th, 2009
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4865
INDUSTRY NEWS ~
Rawlings Manufacturing has completed one of the first wood waste
recovery
systems to introduce woody biomass as fuel to heat cement kilns at
Mitsubishi
Cement in Lucerne Valley California
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4884
Brunette Industries Ltd. Will No Longer Represent Valon Kone
Oy
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4878
JOBS ~
New Mexico Forest Industry Association Looking to Hire Executive
Director
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4854
WILDFIRE ~
24 page slide show of Caterpillar forest fire fighting
equipment
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4876
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, TRAINING, EQUIPMENT DEMOS ~
“Organic Waste Diversion in The Rockies Conference” July 19-22,
Jackson WY
Included in the agenda is a session on:
“Woody Biomass: Processing and Utilization of Forest By-Products”
http://www.tetonconservation.org/index.cfm?id=waste-diversion-conference
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
Forest Organic Debris & Slash Program in Orofino Idaho, Friday,
July 17th, 2009
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayEvent.asp?id=360
MT - Darby Logger Days July 16th, 17th, 18th July
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4880
International Conference On Woody Biomass Utilization Aug 4-5
Starkville MS
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayEvent.asp?id=353
