One option being considered is a vast expansion of the current quarantine zone, a move people in the lumber industry fear will hurt their ability to move lumber. The stakeholders' plan in fighting the beetle would use smaller quarantine zones, but only in area where the pests have been found, as opposed to a blanket zone. Streatch has long-maintained that expanded the quarantine zones would hurt the local lumber industry. The remark came as he was discussing the need for a new plant that...

Skip Hem, Royal Plywood vice president, composite panel division and AWFS president, announced on behalf of the AWFS board of directors that Angelo Gangone, AWFS vice president of trade shows has been formally selected to replace Silverman as AWFS executive vice president. Skip Hem, Royal Plywood vice president, composite panel division and AWFS president, announced on behalf of the AWFS board of directors that Angelo Gangone, AWFS vice president of trade shows has been formally selected...

During the first quarter, given weak demand for paper grades partially due to seasonal reasons, the company curtailed significant newsprint and specialty paper production. The manufacturing cost impact of these curtailments for the quarter is approximately $15 million and reduced production overall by approximately 68,000 metric tons. We have seen some improvement in the second quarter with better demand for several of our paper grades and softening in the cost of recycled fiber. The lower...

They could replant it with trees that caused the lumber industry to be what it was. With a large mill, a shingle mill and a company store, Humbird employed 350 and provided a stable economic base for Sandpoint into the late 1920s. He would like to see the city-owned shoreline turned into a park to commemorate Sandpoint's beginnings. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of Hagadone...

Trade Representative Susan Schwab accusing Canadian lumber producers of exceeding their export quotas and provincial and federal governments of unfairly subsidizing the beleaguered Canadian forestry industry. trade officials will meet in Ottawa on Thursday in an attempt to resolve a brewing dispute that opposition parties in Canada say threatens to derail the seven-month old softwood lumber agreement. Schwab's March 30 letter sets out a litany of complaints against Canada that she says...