Mandates Raise Multiple Questions

Mandates Raise Multiple Questions

Mandates Raise Multiple Questions Story by David Knight, Co-Publisher/Executive Editor, Timber Harvesting 2011 Recent log transportation changes implemented by Weyerhaeuser in Mississippi, Louisiana and eastern North Carolina have left some of the loggers involved...

More Than Just Fuel: Biomass Benefits

Story by Dan Shell, Western Editor Timber Harvesting has long promoted wood-based residuals from forests and other sources as key to developing a growing renewable fuel industry in the U.S. Yet in many cases increased woody biomass utilization not only provides green...

TH Logging Survey Confirms Grim Conditions

Story by David Knight, Co-Publisher/Executive Editor Back in February, the H-B editorial team moved forward with Timber Harvesting’s 2011 Logging Business Survey, its third since 2003. We did it reluctantly because we knew what we’d find: a depressing situation...

Logging Survey Rolls In, Pellet Market Advances

DK Knight, Executive Editor: Phone/Fax: 334-834-1170, e-mail: dk@hattonbrown.com Response to Timber Harvesting’s 2011 Logging Business Survey, sent to our logger subscribers in an e-mail blast on February 9, has been tremendous. By the middle of March 516 of you had...

Logging Capacity Shortfall Will Complicate Recovery

DK Knight, Editor-in-Chief: Phone/Fax: 334-834-1170, e-mail: dk@hattonbrown.com As a new year unfolds, most economic gurus seem to be more confident that a slow recovery is underway. Assuming that recovery is finally rooting, what form will it take, particularly for...

Additional Words On Wood Energy

By DK Knight Here is some information I recently collected while traveling, reading, listening and serving time with a computer. All of it is interesting and some of it could be useful in your business as the year plays out and the “new normal” slowly emerges. Despite...