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Parkland Review
Despite the lack of a softwood lumber agreement with the U.S. and uncertainty with NAFTA, the two forestry companies using the Pasquia Porcupine Forest Management Area are doing quite well this year. While lumber prices are high due to tariffs, there's a large demand in the U.S. for the product, said Doug Braybrook, a woodland manager with Edgewood, which runs a sawmill in Carrot River.
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FPS
The Forest Products Society (FPS) has issued a call for papers for its 72nd International Convention (IC), June 11-14, 2018, at Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. The annual IC is the premier event for forest products industry leaders, researchers and students, offering a world-class platform to share research, discoveries and scientific advances.
The 2018 theme is "Forest Products — Key to a Sustainable Future." The program will feature specific sessions on wood-based building products, forest-based bioproducts and education. For enhanced networking and an expanded audience, the 2018 IC will be held in conjunction with TAPPI's International Conference on Nanotechnology.
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Captial News Service
Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university's forestry department are asking, "Why not wood?" They're not the only ones with that question as builders nationwide push to build high rises, college laboratories and other large buildings with a construction material typically seen in houses. It's a trend that could bring new markets for Michigan trees, fight climate change and produce new jobs, experts say.
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Woodworking Network
A team of researchers at the University of Maryland has found that porous types of wood from trees like poplar and pine can greatly increase the efficiency of water-to-steam conversion under sunlight. The findings, published in the journal Joule, could be used in a simple and inexpensive biodegradable device for water purification.
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Portland Tribune
The World Forestry Center has a new exhibit about cross-laminated timber and other newer forms of mass timber, showing now through next summer. The exhibit, called The Future of Tall, tells of the strength, versatility, construction and installation of mass timber products, which are increasingly being used to build multi-story buildings that are cost-competitive, carbon-efficient, sustainable and reliable.
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Dovetail Partners, Inc.
Urban areas in the United States — in the South and nationwide — have expanded rapidly over the last few decades. This expansion has led to an estimated 4 billion trees in urban areas across the U.S. If the broader definition of "metropolitan areas" is used, the estimate increases to 70 billion trees growing in population centers throughout the country. As urban land is projected to continue increasing in the continental U.S. (nearly tripling in size by 2050), the discipline of urban forestry will continue growing in importance.
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The Architect's Newspaper, LLC
The Architect's Newspaper senior editor Matt Shaw writes: "Mass timber is having its Maison Dom-Ino moment. At the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, a curious structure sat on the grass near the international pavilion in the Giardini. It was an engineered timber version of Le Corbusier's Maison Dom-Ino, the seminal, prototypical reinforced concrete project, which was celebrating its 100th birthday."
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The Indianapolis Star
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources sold the rights last Thursday to log on nearly 300 acres in Yellowwood State Forest as nearly 200 protesters looked on, calling on the state to save the trees. The highest bidder: Hamilton Logging, Inc. out of Martinsville with a bid of roughly $109,000. Although the timber sale is complete, there are still many questions about what this means going forward and how opponents are still trying to intervene before the first tree falls.
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