Ponsse Partners With New West Coast Distributor
The Finland-based Ponsse Group has signed a retail agreement with PacWest Machinery for its sale and maintenance of Ponsse forest machines in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, including the existing service center in Coburg, Ore.
Ponsse announced that PacWest’s extensive service business network would strengthen Ponsse service and growth expectations for cut-to-length logging in the region. Established in the 1890s, PacWest also is a dealer for Volvo (trucks and construction equipment) and Metso (services for aggregate, mineral processing and metal refining) in the same three states. The company has sales and service centers in Portland, Eugene, Pasco, Spokane, Seattle, and Mt. Vernon.
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Purdue Grant Focuses On Forest Development
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has awarded a $10 million grant to Purdue University to help landowners and stakeholders better adapt their forests to increasingly complicated economic and climate conditions in the Eastern U.S. About 5 million small, private landowners control just over half the acreage of forests in the Eastern U.S. This contrasts with Western U.S. forests, which are mostly publicly owned. Purdue and its project partners—the University of Georgia, the University of Maine and the U.S. Forest Service—aim to improve the management of 15 million acres of those forests, an area nearly as large as…
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