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...
by Web Editor | Jun 4, 2018 | News, News/PR
Forestry officials have announced the highly destructive emerald ash borer has been discovered in Maine for the first time. Responsible for the deaths of millions of trees in the U.S. and Canada, the emerald ash borer was known to be expanding across the border in New...
by Web Editor | May 30, 2018 | News, News/PR
Big or small, gradual or sudden, change rhythmically punctuates human life. In the natural world, change is just as intrinsic and pattern-based. Seasonal fluctuations in temperature, shifts in sunlight and natural disturbances, like fire, are all part of nature’s...
by Web Editor | May 24, 2018 | News, News/PR
Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden recently submitted a bipartisan letter urging the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry to include the Timber Innovation Act, which supports the development of mass timber products for building construction,...
