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Plum Creek Develops
Plum Creek Timber, out of Seattle, WA, and one of the largest private landowners in the nation, has begun developing a 2,000-acre “mega site” in south Georgia for future industrial use. Speaking to stock analysts on April 28, Plum Creek CEO Rick Holley said the property, which he called the “Heart of Georgia mega site,”…
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China, Wildfires
Further to this week’s feature story in your Madison’s Lumber Reporter, China has mobilized nearly 3,000 people to quench two raging forest fires in the country’s southwest and north, said Xinhua Friday. Authorities in the southwestern Yunnan Province have mobilized 1,720 people and two helicopters to put out a forest blaze in Dali City. The…
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BC Forest Practices Board Statement
A report released Tuesday on British Columbia’s forest industry’s harvesting of beetle-killed timber confirms that industry has been meeting government’s expectations for concentrating harvesting on dead pine trees, but says the harvest of other kinds of trees is increasing more than expected in some areas of the province. Pine Beetle Timber The report looks at…
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Oregon Log vs Lumber Exports
The Port of Newport on the Oregon coast has finished a major, award-winning renovation of the site, and is negotiating with several timber companies that want to use the terminal to export logs to Asia just as Hampton Affiliates have been investing in the expertise to cultivate a customer base in China and produce lumber…
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Resolute FP Quebec Timber Deal
Resolute Forest Products February 28 confirmed the signature of a framework agreement with the Quebec government and explained the measures found in the agreement. The agreement includes measures for renewal of water power leases for certain generating stations in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region as well as consolidation of some of the company’s Quebec facilities. The framework…
