Reuters . Tuesday, 31 July 2007 Email a Friend . Printable View . Have Your Say Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff Have your say Indonesia expects palm oil output to grow sharply in the next two years but stricter forest protection may then slow expansion, a senior industry official has said. Reuters . Tuesday, 31 July 2007 Email a Friend . Printable View . Have Your Say Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff Have your say Indonesia expects palm oil output to grow sharply in the next...

From humble beginnings selling sawdust and firewood in Duncan, Doman built up an integrated forest company with 6,000 employees and sales in excess of $1 billion at its peak. For more than five decades, he built and acquired sawmills, pulp mills, value-added plants and timberlands across Vancouver Island and on the Lower Mainland, but he was forced to watch -- helpless and defiant -- in 2004 as the empire he once ruled changed hands. A tireless worker and self-made forestry magnate, Doman...

Prices on lumber have fallen in recent months, the result of a struggling home-building industry that has put the brakes on new construction. Lumber, though, is about the only building material that has dropped substantially as a result of housing-market conditions. Ten percent might be on the high side, said Glenn Roberts, senior merchant over lumber for Home Depot (HD : HD News , chart , profile , more Last: Delayed quote data Add to portfolio Analyst Create alert Insider Discuss...

Only a few cities, however, are preparing for disposal of the dead trees, and most trees still end up as fireword or mulch. TOLEDO, Ohio -- Ash trees are being turned into baseball bats for Little Leaguers, park benches and baby furniture as cities around the Midwest try to get rid of millions of trees killed by a paper clip-size beetle. Most of the trees were ground into mulch for homeowners and chips for a wood-burning power plant in Flint -- 300,000 tons of wood were sent to the plant...

Only a few cities, however, are preparing for disposal of the dead trees, and most trees still end up as firewood or mulch. TOLEDO -- Ash trees are being turned into baseball bats for Little Leaguers, park benches and baby furniture as cities across the Midwest try to get rid of millions of trees killed by a beetle the size of a paper clip. Federal agriculture officials say the ash borer could spread to the east-central United States within the next two decades. Forest Service, wants...