During this past year, with minimal fanfare, the governors of Maine and Georgia issued Executive Orders that basically eliminate…
A proposed code change by the American Wood Council (AWC) to expand the use of cross laminated timber through the building code’…
The Western Wood Products Association (WWPA) has just completed testing of Douglas Fir-Larch lumber in cooperation with other We…
The Office of the United States Trade Representative issued the following statement regarding a decision in the third softwood l…
Governor Paul LePage today presented six Maine companies with a 2012 Governor’s Award for Business Excellence, which included Mo…
USDA urges the public to visit www.HungryPests.com to learn more about invasive pests and what they can do to protect American a…
The gears are now in place to move forward with the overall objective to grow softwood lumber markets and profitability in the U…
U.S. Forest Service scientists today released an assessment that shows forest land has expanded in northern states during the pa…
Instead of concrete jungles could our cities become urban forests of wooden skyscrapers? Swapping cement and steel for timber i…
The much anticipated announcement regarding removal of the current exemption between the U.S. and Canada for wood packaging to b…
Opening in just about every movie theatre across the country on Friday, March 2 will be the latest animation and re-incarnation …
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shawn Donovan agreed to update federal guidelines to classify wood pellet boilers as …
Whether in shipments by land or by air, invasive pests are unintentional hitchhikers attempting to enter the United States from …
Effective June 1, 2012, the design values for Southern Pine No.2 graded lumber, 2” to 4” thick and 2” to 4” wide, will be signi…
The U.S. Lumber Coalition today welcomes the announcement by the U.S. Trade Representative that the United States and Canada hav…
Britton Lumber Company, Inc., Fairlee, Vermont announced that it has purchased the assets of Jim Gillies Lumber, Inc., of Gray, …
The British Columbia (BC) government has failed to implement the 2011 regular update to the so-called BC Market Pricing System (…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced progress in the figh…
Congressman Mike Michaud joined with his fellow co-chairs of the House Lumber Trade Caucus to send a letter to United States Tra…
Hammond Lumber Company, headquartered in Belgrade, announced that it will be acquiring three additional building material stores…
According to scientists at Cornell University and the University of Connecticut, a popular cultivar of white pine blister rust, …
Moose River Lumber Company of Jackman, Maine was recently honored by the Maine Forest Products Council (MFPC) as their 2012 Outs…
The findings of a new U.S. Forest Service study indicate that wood should factor as a primary building material in green buildin…
A family-owned lumber company was honored Thursday by the Maine Department of Conservation and the Maine TREE Foundation with th…
Since the spring of 2007, the British Columbia Government has sold BC Interior lumber producers enormous amounts of timber that …
Recent reports from the European Union, particularly from the UK, indicate that China is questioning wood packaging units enteri…
Maine residents are reporting that they are seeing more and more damage throughout the state to Eastern White Pine trees, partic…
Effective June 22, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is expanding the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) qu…
Toby Hammond of Naples, Maine and the former CEO for Hancock Lumber and Hancock Land has been confirmed as the newest member of …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Ohio Department of Agriculture (…
Effective May 22, 2011, The U.S. is requiring that all commercial and noncommercial shipments of imported firewood from Canada a…
Mar 7 2011
NELMA is receiving an increasing number of inquiries from export wood packaging facilities regarding Blue Stain on…
Feb 1 2011
U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) today applauded the announcement of United States Trade Representative Ron…