Enterprise 50 Year Tree Pledge surpasses 12 million plantings
22 March 2018
Since 2006, the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation has funded a massive reforestation effort with more than 12 million tree plantings. Every year, 1 million trees are planted as part of the Enterprise 50 Million Tree Pledge – a unique public-private partnership with the Arb
Continue Reading →More news more often
22 March 2018
More news, more often … that’s the promise when Daily Timber News moves into its twice-weekly timeslot (Tuesdays and Thursdays) from next week. This special industry-driven news outlet will take on a slightly different content coverage with special segments and opinion pie
Continue Reading →US hits Canada with newsprint duties
15 March 2018
American government hit the Canadian forestry industry with more duties this week as it upheld counterveiling duties on Canadian newsprint. Source: Times Colonist The United States Department of Commerce said in a statement that a preliminary investigation found Canadian exporters und
Continue Reading →Can cash promote conservation
15 March 2018
Paying rural villagers to cut down fewer trees boosts conservation not only while the payments are being made but even after they’re discontinued, according to a new CU Boulder study involving 1,200 tropical forest users in five developing countries. Source: University of Colorado The
Continue Reading →Program connects students and forestry
08 March 2018
When Jake Davis has to decide what to do after high school, he’ll have a good feel for the forestry industry. Source: Timmins Today The Grade 11 student was one of more than 30 students from Englehart, Iroquois Falls and Matachewan First Nation in Canada to take part in the Forestry C
Continue Reading →Meet AutoSaw
08 March 2018
In an effort to minimize injury and let carpenters focus on design and other bigger-picture tasks, a team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has created AutoSaw, a system that lets nonexperts customize different items that can then be constructe
Continue Reading →PNG government cancelling defective leases
01 March 2018
Papua New Guinea’s Forestry Minister says the government is cancelling defective Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) as relevant departments work their way through the legalities of the process. Source: Radio New Zealand Under the SABL system, about 12% of the countryR
Continue Reading →Tokyo 2020 confirms rainforest wood use
01 March 2018
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee has confirmed that 87% of the plywood panels used to build its new national stadium come from southeast Asian rainforests. Source: Climate Change News But the timber cannot be traced back to its original source under the committees’s certif
Continue Reading →Canadian lumber producers expect a record year
22 February 2018
The outlook for Canadian lumber producers appears to be more rosy than ever, with the forecast for 2018 housing starts in the US and lumber prices expected to be on the rise yet again. Source: Baystreet With forecasts of nearly 8% growth in housing starts expected in 2018 (on a season
Continue Reading →Wood-based ‘supermaterial’ is stronger and tougher than steel
22 February 2018
Stronger than steel, capable of deflecting bullets and lighter than metal alloys – yet this new “supermaterial” is made mostly from wood. Source: Physics World The material was created by Liangbing Hu at the University of Maryland Energy Research Center and colleagues, who
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