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Scrap Monster
According to Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ), the U.S. lumber imports are likely to touch eight-year highs in 2016. The increased lumber demand in the U.S. and China will result in significant rise in softwood lumber trade during the year. WRQ forecasts 13.6 percent growth in global lumber trade during the year. The global lumber trade will remain resilient to the anticipated slowness in global trade by the WTO. All key lumber importing countries have reported significant rise in imports during the initial three quarters of the year. It must be noted that global trade of softwood lumber had increased by 10.2 percent in 2015.
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FPS
The USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) and the Forest Products Society (FPS) and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) are proud to announce the 20th International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation of Wood Symposium, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, from Sept. 12-15. The conference will be held at the Forest Products Laboratory, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Symposium will include oral and poster presentations from scientists and engineers, and exhibits from equipment development and manufacturing firms. The Symposium organizing committee invites papers, posters and equipment demonstrations (exhibits) from interested individuals and organizations.
Subject areas include:
- Nondestructive characterization of wood and wood-based materials
- Evaluation of forest materials for optimal utilization
- Advanced grading technologies for solid wood and engineered wood products
- Condition assessment, evaluation, and repair of existing wood structures
- Condition assessment of historic wood artifacts and structures
- Evaluation and assessment of urban trees
- Industrial application of emerging nondestructive testing technologies
- Other nondestructive evaluation related research and development activities
The deadline to submit abstracts is Thursday, Feb. 1.
American Wood Council
The American Wood Council has selected Andrew "Andy" Dodson as vice president of government affairs. Dodson will develop and implement the association's government affairs strategy, and he will direct and manage federal and state legislative affairs.
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Business Wire
ArborGen, a world leader in the development and commercialization of technologies that improve the productivity of trees, announced today that it is expanding its agreement with International Paper Brazil by granting ArborGen additional access to IP's eucalyptus germplasm.
This will allow an increased effort to develop and sell new varieties of seedlings with improved traits and capable of being grown in regions of Brazil where there is growing interest in eucalyptus plantations. Since 2013 when the company began its commercial sales operation, sales have increased to a current projection of 47 million eucalyptus seedlings and nine million pine seedlings in 2016.
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Farmers Weekly
Farmers could make better use of woodland and forestry to reduce business risk as direct support for agriculture comes under further pressure, say advisers. While much is made of diversification as part of business planning, the opportunities presented by planting trees or active management of existing woodland on farms have received far less attention, said Mike Tustin, a chartered forester with specialist forestry agent John Clegg & Co.
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OPB
Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality drafted a report that identified logging as a contributor to known risks for drinking water quality in communities up and down the Oregon coast. But the report has never been published. It was scrapped by the agency after intense pushback and charges of antilogging bias from the timber industry and the state's Department of Forestry, according to interviews and public records.
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The Lawton Constitution
While they probably won't discover any "champion" trees when they visit the southern Oklahoma cities of Lawton and Duncan soon, experts from the Oklahoma Department of Forestry say they're still looking forward to visits. Mark Bays, the state's urban forestry coordinator, said Lawton and Duncan have arranged to have forestry service experts assess trees in their public parks and other open spaces. It's something that Bays suggests municipalities do every three to five years.
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The Irish Times
Plans by Bord na Móna to import hundreds of thousands of tonnes of wood pellets from the southeast of the United States to fuel an electricity power plant in the midlands could devastate forests there, critics say. In a report to the government released under the Freedom of Information Act, Bord na Móna forecast it would struggle to find enough locally produced wood and other biomass for its plant in Edenderry, Co Offaly. In the document, written in 2013, the semi-State said its biomass needs "cannot be met from the existing indigenous supply sources" and calls for a greater supply of pulpwood from state-owned forests.
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Mongabay
Global Forest Watch's on-the-fly analysis tool calculates forest change within a specific area and time frame without experience using GIS software. The user can customize the area and time period of the analysis by drawing or uploading polygon shapes. These basic analysis tools can help users address a variety of forest spatial data questions.
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