Smallwood News - May 14, 2009

BREAKING NEWS ~

NM - Fire Rips Through SBS Wood Shavings, Travis Atwell, Glencoe Volunteer Fire
Chief, estimated the damage to SBS Wood Shavings could hit $2 million
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4638

Demographics and the Housing Industry, Changes in demographics in the US
may be working against an impending turnaround in the housing market
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4620

Mills Situated For Renewable Payoff, Electricity from biomass offers
mills more revenue options
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4618
 
FEATURED STORIES ~

Cruel story of Libby Montana's lost logging heritage
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4622

CO - Beetle Kill 2009: Little Bug, Big Business
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4627

MT - Blackfoot-Clearwater Stewardship plan hears support
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4623

RACE TO WOODY BIOMASS ENERGY & BIOFELS ~

Governor Schweitzer: Montana Has Great Opportunities In Biomass
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4634

MT - Fight over biomass - Law making it difficult for businesses to expand
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4639

WA - Weyerhaeuser VP Touts Woody Biomass During Longview Visit
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4619

MA - Firm Banks On Ethanol From Wood, Grass
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4629

BC Hydro launches second phase of Bioenergy Call for Power
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4624

PELLET FUELS & FIREWOOD ~

PelletSales.com Now Delivers Wood Pellets to Buffalo, NY Area
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4633

Belgium's Electrabel Signs $52 Mil Australian Wood Pellet Deal
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4612

FOREST BUSINESS MARKETPLACE ~

Montana DNRC - Whiskey Gulch Timber Sale, Approximately 14,470 tons,
primarily Douglas-fir and lodgepole pine sawlogs
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayAd.asp?id=4544

REPORTS – STUDIES ~

Just Released:
An Assessment Of Forest-Based Woody Biomass Supply And Use In Montana
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4635
 
GRANT’S & RFP’S ~

Secretary Chu Announces Nearly $800 Million To Accelerate
Biofuels Research And Commercialization
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4614

JOBS ~

WI – Looking to hire Research Forest Products Technologist
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4631

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

ID - White Pine Restoration Workshop To Be Held June 19th In Coeur dAlene
http://www.timberbuysell.com/Community/DisplayNews.asp?id=4636