Thanks to our customers we’ve set record numbers the past 6 months on our beetle kill pine product lines. We’ve now shipped to every state in the continental U.S. and our Canadian shipments have increase dramatically in the past few months. We just had a private home owner drive all the way from Calgary Alberta [...]
We had the privilege of giving a tour to the Montana DNRC last week. The field trip started off with a power point presentation about Sustainable Lumber Co. and then a detailed step by step process of our company. The first stop was one of our past logging sites. Dallis Hunter (our certified green logger) [...]
Source: Forbes It is basic Economics 101. Competitive markets create better outcomes than monopolists. Monopolists restrict supply and charge higher prices. Dynamically, monopolists face fewer incentives to create new products or improve how their products are made. In fact, creating new technologies or processes could undermine a monopolist’s current market dominance. What is true for the marketplace [...]
Just another reason to buy local Source: The Telegraph WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers who purchase hardwood floors and furniture products made with illegally cut Russian timber unwittingly may be damaging the last remaining habitat of the endangered and noble Amur tiger. These conclusions are spelled out in a detailed report being released Tuesday by the World [...]
Source: Prince George Citizen The map of the mountain pine beetle’s destruction is so big it can’t be contained in one province but the map of the beetle’s genetic makeup is so small it fits inside the molecules of an insect the size of a grain of rice. That genetic makeup has now been revealed [...]
Source: Dovetail Partners inc. The Forest Service recently released the report “Future of America’s Forests and Rangelands”,[1] providing an extensive examination of the next 50 years (2010-2060) of natural resource pressures and potential changes in forests of the United States. The report highlights risks for negative impacts to forest resources linked to expansion of urban and [...]
Source: U.S. Forest Service U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a House subcommittee today on the economic value generated by the nation’s forests during a time of increased fire activity, encroaching development, pests and disease. Talking to the House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy and Forestry, Tidwell noted that forest restoration [...]
Source: Treehugger Michael Green is known to TreeHuggers as the author of The Case for Tall Wood Buildings. However when he spoke at the Wood Solutions Fair in Toronto it became clear that he is perhaps the material’s greatest proselytizer , both in his speaking and in his body of work. He makes an audacious claim: Wood [...]
Source: Garden News The Nature Conservancy commends the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry for highlighting the links between forest health and rural economies. Restoring public lands through science-based, active management is good for our American lands and economy. America’s forests, which cover one-third of the United States, provide tremendous value by [...]
Source: Missoulian Blue-stained pine and beetle-killed trees dominated the morning discussion at a local business Monday, where a delegation of Chinese and South Korean wood importers continued their Montana tour. With tariffs placed on wood exports from Russia and logging limitations in China, members of the trade mission spent the day in western Montana, looking [...]
