Montana-based, Bitterroot Valley Forest Products, that has come up with a truly innovative product. It looks like reclaimed wood from an old barn or building, but it’s actually made from, among other things, beetle-killed wood and forest fire-killed wood. Montana Ghost Wood was inspired by the state’s ghost towns — specifically the deterioration and...
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Archive for May, 2009
Montana Ghost Wood – A Great Use for Beetle-Killed Trees
Small Forest Landowner Events
Hi, Small Forest Landowner Outreach Specialist, Michael Ahr, has posted some upcoming event for small forest landowners. I thought I would share them. If you have you events you would like to share, let me know. I’ll see if we can post them here and/or include them in our bi-monthly newsletter. Diane Washington Farm...
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Safety First
You probably, like me, get more than your share of “joke” emails. But every once in a while you get one that sticks with you. The one I received recently was entitled “How to Hot-Wire a Logging Truck!” If you’ve seen this already, I apologize. If you haven’t, it will make you rethink your...
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Wood v. Plastic — What they Forget to Mention
Hi, I just finished reading a piece on why wood pallets are greener than plastic pallets. In his piece, Michael Smith, COO of Palnet, argues that although those in favor of plastic say it’s 100% recyclable, plastic still isn’t the more environmental choice. Wood wins out. He brings up things like: • creating plastic...
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