Small-wood News - April 21, 2011

 

Smallwood-News
Your weekly source for small diameter timber utilization and woody biomass news 

 

April 21, 2010

 

IN THIS ISSUE ~

This Week's Sponsor

Breaking News

Featured Stories

Race to Woody Biomass Energy & Biofuels

Pellets - Firewood - Briquettes

Mill News

People In The News

Jobs

Forest Marketplace

Events

 

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FROM THE EDITOR ~ 

Craig Rawlings

Dear readers:

I wish to send each and every subscriber a heartfelt thank you for subscribing to Smallwood-News all these years. It has been and will continue to be a pleasure to bring you the latest happenings in the small-diameter timber and woody biomass industries. And you can expect this newsletter and TimberBuySell.com to only grow and improve as we move into the future. As we make our transition to a paid subscription next week, please remember that if you haven't done so already, you'll need to subscribe to Smallwood-news by Tuesday, April 27 in order to receive the April 28 issue. You can access the order form by clicking this link.

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THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR ~

 

HewSaw Machines Inc.

HewSaw provides full package sawmill lines that make companies profit on processing small to medium sized diameter logs. Our equipment is designed for unlimited product flexibility on high value product sales to diversify your market opportunities. Our compact processing takes less; manpower, energy power, and maintenance while producing; high volumes, high recovery, and high reliability - recipe to make you profit. Find out more.

 

BREAKING NEWS ~  

 

OR - 'Green Wood' Lumberyard Out on a Limb
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Rising loonie will be bad news for local forestry industry
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US Senate Bill Introduced to Incentivize Use of Biomass for Heating
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Coalition Raises Concerns Regarding B.C.'s Planned 'Lump Sum' Payment Plan
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~ Jay O'Laughlin
Professor of Forestry & Policy Sciences, College of Natural Resources Policy Analysis Group, University of ID, Moscow

 

FEATURED STORIES ~ 

 

Obama to take a grass-roots approach to conservation
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BCAP comments amass
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RACE TO WOODY BIOMASS ENERGY & BIOFUELS ~ 

 

VT college to begin biomass heating
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ON - Woodland Bags $4m For Cellulosic Ethanol Demonstration Plant
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Company Looking To Build 35 MW Bioenergy Plant In Klamath Falls, OR
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Lafarge cement plant in Ontario battles CO2 with biomass
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UK - 4.1m funding deal for Skypark and Cranbrook energy plan
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PELLETS - FIREWOOD - BRIQUETTES ~ 

 

CO - Wood pellet boiler paves way for biofuels solutions
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UK - Regeneration of paper mill could include biomass plant
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MILL NEWS ~ 

 

MT - Saw mill hires back workers
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ~ 

 

Deer Lake company named logging contractor of the year by mill
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JOBS ~ 

 

HewSaw Machines Inc. is seeking a full-time Capital Sales person
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MT - Experienced sawyers needed for fuel reduction work
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FOREST MARKETPLACE ~ 

 

MT-DNRC - North Elliston 32 Salvage: 2,155 tons of sawlogs, beetle killed lodgepole
Read More

 

 

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, TRAINING, EQUIPMENT DEMOS ~ 

 

Wood-Based Biofuels, Biomass & Bioenergy: Opportunities and Challenges in Louisiana, April 22-23, Baton Rouge, LA
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Heating the Northeast with Renewable Biomass 2nd Annual Conference and Vendor Fair, April 27-28, Manchester, NH
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Council on Forest Engineering Annual Meeting, June 6-9, Auburn, AL
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Pellet Fuels Institute 2010 Annual Conference, July 18-20, Asheville, NC
Read More

 

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