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A Decade After Recession, Arkansas Timber Industry Reborn
The timber industry, the biggest employer in south Arkansas, has recovered in the decade since the Great Recession. That doesn’t mean it will ever be the same. read more >
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Climate Change Drives Canadian Lumber Buying Spree
Milder winters and warmer summers have meant higher survival rates for the mountain pine beetle, which has triggered an epidemic that began in the 1990s which had killed by 2012 946 million cubic yards of pine trees in British Columbia. More than 45 million acres of forest have been affected. read more >
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UPDATE: Canadian Firm Buys Two Arkansas Lumber Companies
Canadian firm West Fraser Timber has bought two Arkansas sawmill and lumber manufacturing operations: Travis Lumber Co. of Mansfield and Bibler Brothers Lumber of Russellville. read more >
by Jan Cottingham -
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