Category: Forest Products Industry related
Source – About.com Logging Loggers deserve recognition for practicing sustainable forestry in their logging methods. For many years, loggers have understood the value of responsible forest management. They know how to harvest timber in a way that leaves minimal impact on the forest that they love to work in. After all, they want to go […]
Source: Montana Business Quarterly Missoula’s Sustainable Lumber Co. workers know every board personally. Each board is handled up to 12 times to allow them to check quality and detail, according to owner Ryan Palma. And each product is manufactured with Old World artisan style craftsmanship by a local Mennonite/Amish community and is of top quality. One of the […]
Source: About.com Logging Trees and lumber are almost entirely made up of carbon. This is a very good thing when it comes to the environment. Trees are one of natures most efficient carbon sinks Lumber is like a carbon storage bank. The more carbon that is stored in the form of lumber the less CO2 is […]
Source: Forest Business Network Woodstraw by Forest Concepts Private landowners and public land managers soon will be able to use a novel type of straw made from beetle-kill Colorado pines to help reduce erosion and flooding after wildfires. Rogue Resources Inc., a Steamboat Springs-based forest products business, is now manufacturing WoodStraw® Erosion Control Mulch to […]
Source: The Durango Herald Picture courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service Colorado’s 4.3 million acres of beetle-decimated forests represent a catastrophe in the making during another devastating wildfire season. Or do they? That is the conventional wisdom as another summer unfolds with destructive blazes that have left skies in Southwest Colorado and along the Front […]
Source: Forest Business Network Photo by: Tom Waddell A new analysis led by the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station encourages resource managers to consider a broadened view of forests as consumers of water. A shift in thinking toward reducing the risk of water stress to vegetation can help forests maintain their resilience and […]
We were approached awhile ago about becoming a sponsor for “The Tiny House Project”, well and of course we said yes. We love to support entrepreneurs and businesses who understand and support sustainable forestry. What is the Tiny House Project? Here is an excerpt from Alek Lisefski, The brain behind The Tiny Project: The Tiny Project is […]
Source: Steamboat Today Steamboat Springs — Routt National Forest lost about 615,000 acres of trees to the bark beetle epidemic. Medicine Bow National Forest had about 650,000 acres of dead trees, according to U.S. Forest Service spokesman Larry Sandoval. Now, the epidemic has leveled off, and officials are stepping in to take stock of the situation. […]
Source: New Center 1 The Entomological Society of America is hosting its North Central Branch’s annual meeting in Rapid City this week. On Sunday, scientists from all around the world gathered to hear a presentation on the mountain pine beetle. South Dakota’s forests continue to be affected by this bug that feed on pine trees […]
Source: Helena IR The legacy of dead pine trees left by the mountain pine beetle infestation is Brad Langsather’s job to clean up. As the City of Helena’s natural resource coordinator, he’s been involved in seeing that crews work to remove swaths of dead trees that stand rust red against the backdrop of green pines […]
Source: Missoulian COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place. A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has taken a bite out of federal […]
Source: LA Times SEATTLE — The seal looked appealing, a daisy on a field of green, with the words “Tested Green.” It was issued to more than 120 products as a guarantee of environmental responsibility. The problem, federal trade regulators announced in 2011, was that almost anybody who wanted to pay the $189.95 for a […]
Blue Stain Pine Wall Paneling Thanks to our customers, we’ve set record numbers for 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 increased dramatically in the past few months. We just had a private homeowner drive all […]
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 […]