The mill is being built by Gunns, a company that controls most of Tasmania's timber industry.
The sluggish housing market, however, isn't the only factor affecting the timber industry.
The timber industry has long been an economic driver for the Pacific Northwest.
After graduating from high school and having no money for college, Ed spent the next year working in the timber industry and saving his earnings.
Still, with wood products representing the largest manufacturing employer, "I don't think anything will ever take the place of the timber industry, " the county's Ms. Poling said.
They were booted from their habitats by New Zealand's timber industry, which planted so much imported Monterey pine that 7% of the country now is covered with it.
But the American Forest Resource Council, a lobbying group that represents members of the timber industry, believes that forests should be managed to control fires and also to store carbon.
Logging has increased by 60% in the state since the 1980s, when the timber industry moved its operations over from the Pacific north-west in order to avoid continual warfare over old-growth forests and spotted owls.
Some critics worry it will greatly effect timber and development industry in the regions.
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Since then, despite strong demand for lumber from the U.S. construction industry, Timber Group shares are off 3% --even as the parent's stock climbed 37% .
But by the early 1900s, the bottom of the river had been scraped and flattened to allow for the logging industry to float timber downstream.
He bequeathed to his son two precious gifts: a love of language, and a passion for the raw materials of life and industry timber, such as western red cedar, metals, stones and minerals.
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Mr Power explains that during the last timber downturn, during the 1980s, industry took the opportunity to retool.
Liberia has rubber, timber and diamonds, but today the main industry seems to be looting.
This illicit industry has emerged as Canada's most valuable agricultural product--bigger than wheat, cattle or timber.
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