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Forest Products Society
Richard Vlosky, Director and Professor, Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, LSU AgCenter, recently was installed as President of WoodEMA, the International Association for Economics and Management in Wood Processing and Furniture Manufacturing at the 9th International Convention in Mlini, Croatia. WoodEMA is an international not-for-profit association that provides a platform for scientific information dissemination for all segments of the forest products industry. Dr. Vlosky is also President-Elect for the Forest Products Society.
Huffington Post
Hardwood flooring giant Lumber Liquidators pleaded guilty before a federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia to one felony and several misdemeanors for importing illegally sourced wood into the United States. This is great news for the 450 Siberian tigers remaining in the wild, as much of Lumber Liquidators illegal oak flooring was taken from their habitat in the Russian Far East. It is also a strong message that the United States intends to crack down on the illegal timber trade using the Lacey Act, a landmark conservation law that prohibits the import of illegally sourced wood products. Unfortunately, new evidence shows that illegal logging continues at a torrid pace around the globe.
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IHB The Timber Network
Demand for German oak lumber has been rising for years and this trend is set to continue. Accordingly, German sawmills continue to ask for increasing amounts of roundwood. Both wood furniture as well as the wood flooring industry are still dominated by oak. German sawmills are currently satisfied with the European markets, however the situation seems to change in Asia.
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Oregon Metro
Customers at Metro South transfer station in Oregon City and Metro Central transfer station in Northwest Portland will now see significant changes in what and how they can bring wood waste and yard debris to the facilities.
The changes come on the heels of the announcement of the upcoming closure of the WestRock paper mill in Newberg, which has used the majority of the wood waste generated in the Portland region as a source of energy.
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Statesman Journal
The forests of Oregon are among the most productive in the world, and are among Oregon’s most valuable resources. They touch the lives of rural and urban Oregonians in many ways and are essential to our state’s well-being.
What about our urban forests? What are they and why should people care about them?
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E&E Publishing
Tucked deep in Congress' bill to fund the government in 2015 was a request to the Forest Service: Get moving on a long-stalled rule that could aid the survival of America's small timber mills.
The report language "strongly encouraged" the agency to write a directive that could ensure small mills are not bullied out of federal timber contracts by larger, better-capitalized corporations.
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The Fresno Bee
Lamenting “the worst epidemic of tree mortality” in the state’s modern history, Gov. Jerry Brown recently sought federal aid to remove dead trees from California forests and called for more controlled burns to reduce the risk of wildfire.
The declaration, including a controversial exemption from environmental reviews, comes amid California’s ongoing drought and a bark beetle infestation that has killed millions of trees weakened by lack of water.
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takepart
Haiti is the most impoverished country in the northern hemisphere, and trees, or the lack thereof, are part of the problem.
After centuries of agricultural exploitation and the population’s demand for charcoal and fuel wood, 98 percent of Haiti’s landscape is deforested, leaving the country vulnerable to environmental disasters. Everyone from conservationists to actor Sean Penn sees trees as the answer. The question is, which trees?
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KLCC.org
As cooler, wetter weather comes to the Northwest, wildfire season is rapidly coming to a close.
This year’s fires are leaving behind more than just charred forests. They’re setting the stage for what’s expected to be a fundamental shift in the landscape. Because of a changing climate, what grows back could permanently look very different than what was there before.
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Phys.org
A downturn in the bioenergy industry has led one Texas A&M AgriLife Researcher to reach to new heights in the forage biomass arena. Dr. Russ Jessup, an AgriLife Research perennial grass breeder in College Station, said he is introducing a new biofuel-biomass feedstock that is a hybrid "similar to seedless watermelons, seedless grapes and other sterile triploid crops."
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