In 1946, a man chopping wood in Oregon noticed several timber beetle larvae chewing through the logs around him.
After a hurricane, for example, large trees that are snapped or sheared often become pulp wood rather than saw-timber, reducing their value by two-thirds or more.
Meanwhile, some timber mills are importing cheaper wood, with some of the qualities of aspen, from Canada.
It pertains to the 1890s, when Clinton (population 14, 698) benefited from the Mississippi River, which brought timber to sawmills that made wood products that were shipped on the nearby railroads.
Land Girls took on all types of agricultural work while the Women's Timber Corps worked in the forests supplying wood for use in everything from railway sleepers to pit props.
The wood from the West Coast of America is diseased and useless for timber, they say.
Also known as loggers, lumberjacks typically harvest, cut and transport timber to be processed into lumber, paper and other wood products.
Even more expensive is wood from chestnut, a once ubiquitous species that ceased to be a source of timber not long after chestnut blight arrived on this continent around 1890.
As you stated, much wood processing is now undertaken in countries from which it is almost impossible to track the honest origin of timber.
For example, Mitsui announced recently that it has acquired two Australian forestry companies: Great Southern Timber Holdings, which specializes in forest planting, and Hansol, a company that processes and exports wood chips.
Among the largest underlying components of WOOD, in trading today Rayonier Incorporated ( RYN) is off about 0.1%, and Plum Creek Timber Company Incorporated ( PCL) is lower by about 2%.
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