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Lens
As Washington looks to bring cross-laminated timber (CLT) into mainstream construction use, the International Code Council (ICC) has announced code change proposals that would represent another large step in that direction.
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FPS
The Mid-South Section of the Forest Products Society is hosting a program, "21st Century Wood Technology," Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 7 and 8, at the Sustainable Bioproducts Laboratory of the School of Forestry on the Campus of Mississippi State University. The upcoming Sessions cover a wide range of the newer wood utilization technologies that are growing in importance in the Southeast and also will provide the attendee with an update on applications and technologies being utilized.
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FPS
The 21st International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium will take place Sept. 24-27, 2019, in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The event will be hosted by the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg and co-sponsored by the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Products Society and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations D5.01.09 unit "Non-Destructive Evaluation of Wood and Wood-Based Materials."
Registration opens April 1, 2019. Click here for additional information.
The Fifth Estate
The demand for radical change by the United Nations in October this year to limit global warming to a 1.5-degree global temperature increase, requires fundamental change.
A three-week visit of five countries which included judging at the 2018 World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam and presentations in Geneva to the PEFC General Assembly, have convinced me that fundamental change is well underway.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
When famed naturalist John Muir described forests as "the clearest way into the universe," he probably wasn’t thinking of Las Vegas. But America's driest desert city is home to a man-made urban forest worthy of at least some national attention.
Las Vegas is one of 100 metropolitan areas the U.S. Forest Service hopes to one day add to its annual Forest Inventory and Analysis, an exhaustive nationwide tree tally and health assessment. Federal foresters have been conducting the inventory in rural America since the 1930s, but Congress called for the effort to be expanded to cities as part of the 2014 farm bill.
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Katerra
Timber-based construction projects are not always considered representative of the industry's cutting edge. In fact, a common misconception is that building with wood can often introduce challenges for certain project types, including higher material budget costs or limitations on building height.
In reality, these views represent outdated misperceptions, thanks to the development of mass timber technology. As mass timber continues to mature and grow as a mainstream sturctural material, awareness of the many benefits of building with wood grows as well, along with successful project case studies.
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Biomass Magazine
An executive order on forest management issued by President Trump in late December addresses how rural economies can benefit through the utilization of byproducts created by forest restoration efforts.
Trump issued the executive order on Dec. 21. It is officially titled "Promoting Active Management of America's Forests, Rangelands and other Federal Lands to Improve Conditions and Reduce Wildfire Risk."
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Payson Roundup
Backers of a historic plan to restore forest health and save rural communities from wildfires made a desperate plea to the Arizona Corporation Commission to require power companies to burn wood scraps for energy.
The vital effort to thin dangerous tree thickets on two million acres can't succeed without a market for the millions of tons of brush and small trees, said Jason Whiting, co-chairman of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) stakeholder group.
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