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Current Softwood Lumber Prices Compared to Recent and Historical Highs: August 31, 3018
A seemingly incomprehensible North America softwood lumber market in 2018 continued it’s recent stabilization to end this pre-Labour Day holiday week somewhat moderated over last week. In the past week softwood lumber futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have swing between US$425 and US$450, which provided little additional insight to this puzzling year but at…
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British Columbia Wildfires 2018/18: Impact on Forest Industry
The worst of possible bad news has happened and the wildfires across North America this year are as bad or worse than 2017. It looks like the wildfire experts were correct for the past couple of years when they said these epic forest fires are the new normal. Wildfire ecologists in British Columbia have been…
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US Newsprint Duties Cancelled, Funds to be Returned to Canadian Companies
The U.S. International Trade Commission has overturned duties imposed on Canadian newsprint, said the Canadian Press today. The commission says it found that imports of the paper product, part of the wider category of uncoated groundwood paper, do not injure US industry. The U.S. Commerce Department imposed anti-dumping and countervailing duties of various levels on…
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Madison’s Announces . . . BC Coastal Log Prices: Monthly
The information tool for your forest management and investment planning decisions. Our *new* monthly log price report is tailored to provide you with vital data about prices of various species and grades of British Columbia coastal logs, for Canadian and international markets, at your fingertips in a timely manner. Order our PRE-PUBLICATION sale and be…
