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As 2017 comes to a close, FPS would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of The Forest Products Report a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Wednesday, Jan. 3.
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Remodeling
From March 22: Here is a summary of what's in the Trump administration's proposed budget, released today, that is likely to be of greatest interest to the construction and lumber industries. Departments with programs that don't involve construction and lumber have been omitted.
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Mongabay
From March 8: Evidence continues to mount for the toll climate change is taking on the ecosystems of the United States' national parks and forests from coast to coast. The latest study, published in Global Change Biology by researchers at Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, predicts that warming temperatures across the eastern United States will alter the distribution of a range of tree species, leaving many too vulnerable to adapt to changing conditions.
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Confederation of Timber Industries
From Aug. 23: Enthusiasm for solid wood architecture (also known as mass timber architecture) and wood engineering is spreading all over the world. A new generation of architects and designers are now determined to promote timber as the material of choice for a wide range of innovative and challenging projects.
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Woodworking Network
From April 26: The United States government will impose tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber following a Commerce Department determination that Canada subsidizes softwood lumber production. The U.S. Department of Commerce's preliminary determination resulted from a petition filed in November 2016 by a U.S. trade group, the Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations (COALITION). The group claims that subsidies by the Canadian government distort the U.S. softwood lumber market, hurting the business of U.S. sawmills.
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Construction Dive
From May 17: Softwood lumber prices are at their highest levels since September 2004, rising 13.4 percent year-over-year in April, according to the National Association of Home Builders' analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The NAHB points to the recent softwood lumber trade woes between the U.S. and Canada as the lead, and perhaps only, culprit in the steady price increases.
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Woodworking Network
From June 7: 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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The Daily Astorian
From Sept. 27: Out of the ashes of another record-breaking wildfire season across the West, Oregon lawmakers are calling for changes in the way national forests are managed and how the government pays for fighting increasingly large, destructive fires.
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U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities
From Oct. 12: A report by the Blue Ribbon Commission on Forest and Forest Products Research and Development in the U.S. in the 21st Century (BRC), released by the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment), calls for changes in the way forest and forest products research is addressed.
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Biomass Magazine
From Jan. 18: In days, the past two years of election gamesmanship will end with the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. Since Election Day, the media and Washington insiders have been placing their bets on what the coming Trump administration will look like, and the policies it will implement, along with the Republican-controlled House and Senate. While much about the coming administration remains unknown, Trump's nominee for the U.S. EPA, Scott Pruitt, may shed light on where federal biomass policy is headed.
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Woodworking Network
From Nov. 15: In an effort to help authorities crack down on illegally traded lumber, scientists have begun analyzing regional differences in the DNA of wood - helping them determine the birthplace of the original tree within 10 miles. Illegal logging is a serious problem in the United States, but potentially even a bigger problem in Europe, with an estimated $8 to $12 billion in lost revenue annually.
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