by Web Editor | Nov 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
From: Timber Harvesting Staff Weyerhaeuser Co. and Plum Creek announced a merger that will leave nearly two-thirds majority ownership in Weyerhaeuser shareholder hands. The combined company creates a $23 billion timber REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) with more...
by Web Editor | Nov 4, 2015 | News, News/PR
California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency for the state’s forests, where an estimated 22 million trees have already died. Cal Fire’s chief says this means continuing work that has already happened. What is killing them is a one-two...
by Web Editor | Oct 30, 2015 | News, News/PR
Sawmills in the south were hit hard by the recession. A steep decline in the housing market accelerated plant closings and job losses. However, new research shows good news for the timber industry. A nearly $200 million Weyerhaeuser project in Dierks, Arkansas could...
by Web Editor | Oct 19, 2015 | News, News/PR
Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster Thursday in Bastrop County outside Austin, where a wildfire destroyed 38 structures, most of them homes, and raced across nearly 4,400 acres, authorities said. The Hidden Pines Fire threatens more than 150 homes,...
by Web Editor | Oct 16, 2015 | News, News/PR
The Idaho logging and wood products industries struggle with volatile prices and a sharply reduced amount of timber available for harvest on federal lands compared with a generation ago. But Idaho wood is still a moneymaker, and recent trend lines are mostly positive,...
by Web Editor | Oct 9, 2015 | News, News/PR
New management for 400,000 acres of timberland in Klamath County means the region can expect to experience new growth in the timber industry. Green Diamond Resource Co., the timber company that purchased several thousand acres of land last year from the Klamath Falls...
