Smallwood-News
Your weekly source for small diameter timber utilization and woody biomass news
December 1, 2010
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| FROM THE EDITOR ~ |
Dear Readers: I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday. Speaking of holidays, we're excited to offer you a special gift this season. As you scroll down the newsletter you'll no doubt notice that it's much larger than the free version you've been receiving. That's because we're giving you the full-sized newsletter for the entire month of December. Normally the cost for receiving the full version of Smallwood-News is $36 a year, but you get it free for the next five issues. We appreciate you being a subscriber and hope you consider subscribing soon to our much larger newsletter. Why pony up $36 for an annual subscription? Because as you see below, there's much more to Smallwood-News in the upgraded version. And that means more current news, more sales lead opportunities for your business, more current grant listings and bid opportunities, and, well....just much more to benefit you and your business. An annual subscription to the upgraded version of Smallwood-News makes a great Christmas gift! You can purchase at anytime on our secure order form by clicking this link. Happy Holidays, Craig Rawlings |
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| BREAKING NEWS ~ |
Neville Log Homes plans bankruptcy less than year after stimulus loan
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Morbark expecting job cuts soon. Citing a work slowdown, management at Morbark recent met with employees to announce a plan for layoffs at its Winn, MI manufacturing plant.
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Greenpeace and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada release green jobs report for northern forestry
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Montana's Senator Jon Tester Says His Forest Bill Still Has a Chance
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| FEATURED ADVERTISER ~ |
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| FEATURED STORIES ~ |
Virginia pilot program a model for national conservation? Forestry officials are hoping that a program being piloted on land around a local reservoir will provide a national model for linking financially those who perform the work of forest conservation with those who receive its benefits.
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U.S. Forest Service research helps quantify the value of trees in communities across the nation
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USDA Forest Products Laboratory's November Newsletter (PDF)
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| RACE TO WOODY BIOMASS ENERGY & BIOFUELS ~ |
Sawmill in Maine going green, will produce own electricity
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Installation of Boulder, Colorado's County Jail's woody biomass burner underway
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Maine paper mill launches $40M project to cut coal use, get more energy from woody biomass
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FirstEnergy cancels $200m Ohio biomass power project
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Maine's Jackson Lab to build new energy plant
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| PELLETS - FIREWOOD - BRIQUETTES ~ |
Plantation Energy to export wood pellets to Japan
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Turning Waste Into Energy - Boise State University study proves that low-energy feedstocks can be densified and when combusted produce heat output comparable to higher energy content fuels
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Mill owner says town blundered - Jason Mughmaw says mistakes by town officials are keeping him from opening his wood pellet mill in Worcester, MA
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| FEATURED ADVERTISER ~ |
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| MILL NEWS ~ |
Chips off the old log - Vermont's Cersosimo opens state-of-the-art wood chip mill
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St. Joe to sell 4M tons of pulpwood to Smurfit-Stone, Panama City, FL
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| FOREST HEALTH ~ |
Mexico's forest communities excel in good management. Review of 10 years of research suggests lessons for COP16 negotiators in Cancun: Community forest owners can reduce illegal logging, forest fires, CO2 emissions, poverty.
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| PEOPLE IN THE NEWS ~ |
Forestry pioneer, conservation icon Bud Moore dies at age 93
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| FEATURED ADVERTISER ~ |
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| FOREST MARKETPLACE ~ |
4,000 Tons of 4' minus hog fuel for sale in Northwestern Montana
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Montana DNRC - Henry Fuels Timber Sale: 20,808 tons, Douglas-fir, western larch, and ponderosa pine sawlogs offered for sale
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Looking to buy logs delivered to post & pole yard in Western Montana
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Highest dollar paid for your standing walnut and white oak timber
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| CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, TRAINING, EQUIPMENT DEMOS ~ |
Montana Logging Association's Winter Meeting & Christmas Reception: December 3-4, 2010 - Red Lion Hotel, Kalispell, MT
Phone: 406.752.3168
email: mla@logging.org
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Nevada Pinyon-Juniper Restoration and Utilization Summit: December 8-9, 2010 - Las Vegas, NV
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Small Log Conference: March 23-25, 2011 - Coeur d' Alene, ID
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| SMALLWOOD-NEWS CONTACT LIST ~ |
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