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Showing posts with label timber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label timber. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Timber giant doubles down on AI expansion plans to maximize profits

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Weyerhaeuser plants more than 190 seedlings a  minute. (Photo by Steven Kamenar, Unsplash ) Weyerhaeuser plans to use AI to amplify its fore...
Friday, October 03, 2025

Iowa Trappists incorporate land stewardship and casket-making into their spiritual vocations

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An aerial view of a creek flanked by prairie buffer owned by the New Melleray Abbey. (Photo by (Nick Rohlman, The Gazette) ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Northwestern timber industry hopes to revive as Trump administration eyes tariffs, more logging in national forests

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Northwestern timber looks for a comeback. (Photo by Spurwing, Unsplash) Despite decades of decline, the U.S. northwestern lumber industry is...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Southern timber owners could benefit from plan to create electricity and carbon credits by burning wood chips

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The U.S. Pine Belt is filled with fast-growing Loblolly pines. (Reddit map)   United Kingdom power producer Drax is scouting locations in Am...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

More than 100 years of trying hasn't produced a reliable paper bottle. Why is it so challenging?

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Inventing a reliable paper bottle has proved 'curiously complicated.' (Adobe Stock photo) The search for a non-leaking, carbonation-...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

A town of 400 in the Southern Cascades buys surrounding forest for wildfire protection, tourism, and to set an example

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100-year-old Douglas firs in the Butte Falls Community Forest (Photo by Amanda Loman via Columbia Insight) The small town of Butte Falls, ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Weyerhauser, our largest landowner, uses carbon offsets to boost its stock and real estate; logging practices remain

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Weyerhaeuser Co. says trees in its Northern timberlands are harvested at 54 years of age, which on average is 25 years older than fast-growi...
Friday, January 13, 2023

Born to chop and saw, he dissed it; now he aims to be king of lumberjacks in 'original extreme sport' sort of like golf

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Jason Lentz (Photo by Natalie Ivis, The New York Times) How can a man can fall into a life he never wanted? Jason Lentz didn't want the...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

America's forests and its farms are where you find the nation's happiest, least stressful, most meaningful jobs

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(Graph by The Washington Post , data from Bureau of Labor Statistics ) Naturalist and ecological thinker John Muir wrote, “The clearest way ...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

It's cardboard season; ever wonder where it all comes from?

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A machine the size of a football field makes paper that becomes boxes.  (Photo by Christopher Payne, The New York Times) The people of Winds...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Carbon market opening up for smaller forest landowmners

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Forester Sarah Hall-Bagdonas talks with Sara Velazquez and Dan Nelson. (Reuters photo by Carey Biron via The Daily Yonder ) Major rural land...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Next week is National Forest Products Week; bourbon's one

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Oct. 17-23 is National Forest Products Week, designated by Congress in 1960 as the third week of October as to recognize the value of Americ...
Friday, September 03, 2021

Quick hits: Meatpackers rely more on special-visa workers; pastor's book calls for different thinking about rural churches

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email  heather....
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Fed chair and other economists point to falling lumber prices as evidence that inflation isn't a big threat to the economy

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Lumber prices skyrocketed over the past year, with futures exceeding $1,600 per thousand board feet in early May. "But since then, the ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2021

High lumber prices lead to tree poaching in Canada and do-it-yourself sawmills in Alaska

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Sky-high lumber prices during the pandemic have prompted creative responses — some of them illegal — among would-be builders. It may be hap...
Monday, April 12, 2021

High lumber prices, which stem mostly from the pandemic and a pest, aren't helping many timber cutters, landowners

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Lumber prices have skyrocketed over the past year, due to scarcity caused by tariffs and a Canadian beetle infestation, but the higher price...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

USDA announces $12 billion agriculture aid program; aims to reach smaller producers overlooked in previous aid

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The Agriculture Department  has announced a program to distribute more than $12 billion to farmers from the relief-and-stimulus bill passed ...
Friday, March 05, 2021

Quick hits: Solutions needed for overdue utility bills; Maine 'hackathon' aims to boost rural economic recovery . . .

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at hea...
Monday, January 18, 2021

On way out, feds make environmental rollbacks: cut spotted-owl habitat, opened conservation lands to development, etc.

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A northern spotted owl chases a mouse in Oregon's Deschutes National Forest.  (Don Ryan, The Associated Press ) "The Trump administ...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Quick hits: minor-league baseball getting squeezed by majors; FCC seeks input on pandemic telehealth program

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at hea...