A newly FSC certified company in the USA is recycling old raft logs - so called boomsticks - into a host of fine lumber products. The company expects to sell much of its product line to developers and builders involved in the environmentally sensitive US construction industry. Columbia Riverwood received FSC chain of custody certification […]

Innovatek reports in Friday Offcuts that this week the Australian forestry industry has been united in its opposition to an announcement made by CSIRO. After Ensis, the joint venture research grouping between CSIRO in Australia and its equivalent in New Zealand, Scion was wound up earlier this year - after only two years of operation […]

Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) and the Tropical Forest Trust (TFT) announced that the major timber company has more than doubled the amount of certified rainforest it operates in the Congo Basin, creating the largest ever tract of contiguous certified tropical forest in the world, a total of 750,000 ha. To meet the standards for […]

Forest2Market.com reports that loggers in the US South have seen profits hemorrhage due to the rising cost of diesel. High fuel costs have pushed a number of loggers, already hit hard by the housing slump, out of business and, without state aid, many more could follow says the Mississippi Loggers Association (MLA).

Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2008 has been released by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The 2008 report was prepared by the Montreal Process Implementation Group for Australia (MIG) on behalf of the Australian, state and territory governments. It can be viewed on adl.brs.gov.au. A3P CEO Neil Fisher said, “The report is a […]

The world’s oldest known living tree, a conifer that first took root at the end of the last Ice Age, has been discovered in Sweden, according to an online National Geographic report.