Vancouver will get new biomass facility.
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Vancouver Biomass Plant Gets Thumbs Up
Kitzhabert talks biomass
Biomass industry in Oregon.
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TimberWest Creates Online Buyer’s Guide
TimberWest Magazine online Buyer's Guide offers new resource for readers and companies.
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Tragic Loss of Logger Robbie Melcher
Our hearts go out to the Melcher family, who lost their Robbie yesterday. Robbie Lee Melcher was a big part of the family-run logging operation out of Sweet Home, Ore. Although I didn’t know Robbie personally, you couldn’t be involved in the industry without knowing something about Melcher Logging. The family is well-liked and...
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Roseburg Death — a Reminder to Stay Safe
There was an accident yesterday at Douglas County Forest Products, a lumber mill in Roseburg, Oregon, that took the life of a 39-year-old Holger Fussell. The Oregonian reports that he was found severely injured and trapped under a lumber stacker. Although co-workers administered CPR, he was pronounced dead at the hospital. What caused the...
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Global Warming May Bring More Trees to Northwest
An interesting study came out of Science Daily this week. It was conducted at Oregon State University (OSU), and looked at how global warming might affect Northwest forests. The OSUE study predicts that over the next century, global warming will spur growth in higher-elevation forests. Unfortunately, it also speculated timber growth would drop in...
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Thinning or Roadless Areas?
While traveling yesterday, I came across the headline Oregon thinning project tests Obama forest policy at least three times. As soon as I got home, I had to see what big event had transpired. More of the Same After reading the article, I was disappointed. Nothing had really happened. Basically, the same roadless question...
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Positive Ruling on Softwood Lumber
The U.S. timber industry is definitely having a hard time of it. So, it’s a good day when I can report on a positive news story. Softwood Lumber Agreement The Obama administration helped insure that the U.S. can continue affixing a 10% duty to all Canadian softwood lumber imports. The U.S. can collect the...
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Most Cited Logging Safety Violations
In the July/August 2009 issue of Springboard Magazine — the official publication of the Washington Contract Loggers Association —Jerry Bonagofsky ranked the 20 most cited violations by L&I; safety inspectors in 2008. 1. No written emergency medical plan for your jobsite. 2. DANGER 36-INCH CLEARANCE was not marked near the rear of log loaders...
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Hottest Day On Record, Don’t do Something Stupid
The news today is that Pacific Northwest may reach the hottest temperatures on record, or at least in the last 200 years since they’ve been keeping track. I’m live in Enumclaw, in the foothills of Mount Rainier. I can feel people collectively holding their breath, hoping no one does something stupid, like throw a...
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