by Web Editor | Jun 29, 2018 | News, News/PR
Angelina Forest Products, LLC recently announced plans to open a $100 million sawmill in Lufkin, Texas. The softwood mill is expected to be in place by spring of 2019, creating 100 full-time jobs and contributing $52 million to the Texas economy in its first year. “We...
by Web Editor | Jun 27, 2018 | News, News/PR
Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California. The Pawnee Fire, which broke out Saturday near the community of Clearlake Oaks, has destroyed 12 buildings and threatened an...
by Web Editor | Jun 25, 2018 | News, News/PR
PG&E Corp. will record $2.5 billion in pre-tax expenses in the second quarter related to wildfires in California, the electric utility said on Thursday, two weeks after state officials blamed its power lines for sparking the fires. Wall Street analysts said...
by Web Editor | Jun 22, 2018 | News, News/PR
Prices for wood to build and renovate houses have as much as doubled over the past six months, increasing costs for consumers but boosting Maine’s softwood sales and signaling a turnaround in that segment of the forestry market, industry experts say. A number of...
by Web Editor | Jun 11, 2018 | News, News/PR
Digital technology might not be the first thing you think of when thinking about the logging and timber industry, but one Savannah entrepreneur hopes to changes that. “We’re hoping to be a disrupter of the business,” said Dean McCraw of Phloem, a mobile app for the...
by Web Editor | Jun 8, 2018 | News, News/PR
Get ready for another summer of destructive wildfires across much of the country. Forecasters at the National Interagency Fire Center are predicting that warmer and drier-than-normal conditions have put large portions of the Western United States at above-average risk...
