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Woodworking Network
The Canadian government will give $642.2 million in financial support to Canadian lumber producers and exporters to help them withstand the impact of new U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood exports. In April, Washington imposed preliminary anti-subsidy duties averaging around 20 percent on imports of Canadian softwood lumber. Canada thinks the duties are unfair.
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FPS
Where are wood-based products headed? Here's an opportunity to find out! We've organized a lineup of industry leaders to share their insights at the FPS International Convention, June 26-28 in Starkville, Mississippi, and personally invite you to join us.
You will hear from:
- Roy O. Martin, President, CEO & CFO, Roy O. Martin
- Pat Thomasson, CEO, Thomasson Company
- World Nieh, National Program Leader for Forest Products and Utilization, USDA Forest Service
- Trevor Raymond Stuthridge, Executive V-P, FP Innovations
- Yiqiang Wu, Vice President of Central South University of Forestry and Technology, China
They're part of great program covering economics, business development, nanomaterials, CLT, wood protection, adhesives and many, many other areas. There is also a trade fair, tours of local mills and many networking opportunities. See the full program here. Don't miss this chance to stay abreast of the future!
Take the last train to Starkville and we’ll meet you at the station!
Biomass Magazine
A report filed with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's Global Agricultural Information Network in late May provides background information Japan's recently implemented Clean Wood Act, which aims to ensure domestic and imported wood are harvested legally. According to the report, the act was implemented on May 20 and impacts most forest products, including logs, lumber, furniture and wood pellets. Particle board and products made from recycled wood are excluded. The government of Japan is expected to begin registering companies that procure domestic or import foreign forestry products in October.
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Oxford University Press
Sustainable forestry aims to maintain wood supply whilst preserving biodiversity and the integrity of the ecosystem. Research shows that boreal forests, like those across much of Northern Europe and Canada, have higher levels of variability in their structure and dynamics when unmanaged, improving their biodiversity and the stability of their ecosystems. These unmanaged forests also have a higher proportion of older trees than those used in industrial forest rotation — around 70-100 years in Canadian boreal forests.
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Yakima Herald-Republic via The Daily News
A new collaborative approach hopes to show responsible environmental stewardship can boost the health of Washington's forests and the state's regional economies. Efforts to work together toward the common goal of improving the forest trace back to the formation of the Tapash Sustainable Forest Collaborative in 2007. Its focus continued to narrow as the Little Naches Working Group, with 40 regular members representing a wide variety of interests and expertise, helped the Forest Service develop plans for the nearly 57,000-acre Little Crow Area.
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StarTribune
Tucked into the omnibus jobs and energy bill signed by Gov. Mark Dayton is a provision that will allow a special fund for clean energy development to be used to shut down a couple of renewable energy power plants in greater Minnesota. Given plant owners and the Public Utilities Commission agree to details, the new law allows Xcel Energy to purchase and decommission a small power plant in Benson in western Minnesota that burns turkey manure and wood chips for fuel. It also, with the same approvals, can stop buying power from a pair of municipal plants on the Iron Range that were converted to burn wood chips.
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Canadian Biomass
President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, framing his decision as "a reassertion of America's sovereignty," adding he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."
Trump's decision may have catastrophic consequences for the U.S. industrial wood pellet industry, for European biomass power utilities and even for the Canadian wood pellet industry. This is due to a new European requirement that wood pellets may only be sourced from countries that are party to the Paris agreement and have ratified the agreement. The fallout may adversely affect Canadian pellet producers despite Canada's support of the Paris agreement.
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Mongabay
Scientists have long been puzzled by the immense diversity of tropical rainforests, but a new study finds that both light and height are key to plant diversity. Research supports both niche theory and unified neutral theory, but with some twists.
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Woodworking Network
The particleboard market reached a value of $17 billion in 2016, growing at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 6 percent during the seven-year period from 2009-2016, according to a new study of engineered wood from Research & Markets. Some of the major players covered in the report are Kastamonu, Roseburg, Norbord, Boise Cascade and Columbia Forest Products.
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