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November 2009

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November 21, 2009

Gunns favourite to manage Great Southern

TIMBER company Gunns is poised to further increase control of Australian forests, emerging as favourite to take over the running of Great Southern's management investment scheme plantations.

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November 24, 2009

Nova Scotia restoring forests damaged by the spruce bark beetle

The provincial government of Nova Scotia is restoring forests in Cape Breton's Mabou Highlands ravaged by the spruce bark beetle.

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November 24, 2009

Taiga Building Products Ltd. Announces Leadership Succession Plan

BURNABY, BC, Nov. 24 /CNW/ - Taiga Building Products Ltd. ("Taiga" or the "Company") The Board of Directors of Taiga announced today that they have appointed the next generation of Taiga's Executive Vice Presidents, effective January 1, 2010.

Trent Balog will step into the role of Executive Vice President, Operations; Kevin Bradshaw will assume the role of Executive Vice President, Supply Management; and Grant Sali will move into the role of Executive Vice President, Allied Products and Treated Wood Products.
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November 24, 2009

Size matters: B.C. lumber sales to China suffer - B.C. not cutting export wood to lengths that the Chinese prefer

SHANGHAI — British Columbia has only a small slice of the growing Chinese lumber market because most forest companies are shipping lumber cut to North American — not Chinese — specifications.

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November 20, 2009

Expert warns of potential conflicts from REDD

An expert has warned that the REDD emissions reduction scheme designed to protect forests could be prone to conflicts between rich and rainforest nations, including Indonesia, which could in turn threaten bilateral relations because of complicated mechanisms involved in  the monitoring of the scheme.

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November 20, 2009

Clamping down on logging in Brazil moves it to Paraguay

Former Paraguayan government minister makes plea for West to intervene in runaway illegal logging situation displaced from Brazil

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November 20, 2009

Double Helix Uses DNA to Track Timber, Fight Illegal Logging

 

Think of it as CSI for the timber industry.

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November 20, 2009

Russian pulp and paper market to revive not earlier than in 2010

According to intermediate results, Russian timber industry remains unprofitable – in the first half of

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November 19, 2009

Forestry is improving at Ciego de Ávila province

According to data of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Cuba is one of the few countries of the world where forest areas grow every year.

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November 19, 2009

Updated softwood lumber market outlook for the US

 

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