Maritime College of Forest Technology offers Identifying & Producing Quality Hardwood workshop| Sep 4, 2010 The Maritime College of Forest Technology’s Department of Continuing Education is pleased to offer Identifying & Producing Quality Hardwood. This five-day workshop will be held October 18 – 22, 2010. Identifying & Producing Quality Hardwood is a condensed and challenging version of two very popular courses – Hardwood Log Quality ... Read more |
Maine Woods Coalition rejects forest scheme| Aug 16, 2010 A broadly based coalition of municipal and county officials, private citizens, and businesses has voted unanimously to reject a request to join the Keeping Maine’s Forests (KMF) Steering Committee.... Read more |
Fraunhofer Institute develops wood-based transponder for marking trees| Aug 16, 2010 The Intelligent Wood - RFID in Timber Logistics project is testing RFID transponders made of paper and lignin as an alternative to metal tags.... Read more |
UPM sells Minnesota DNR part of its forest lands| Jul 12, 2010 UPM sold the State of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources a conservation easement on 187,876 acres (76,000 hectares) of UPM-owned forest land in Northern Minnesota.... Read more |
‘American Loggers’ stars hosted by Caterpillar at Expo Richmond | Jul 9, 2010 Caterpillar Forest Products hosted several members of the Pelletier family, stars of the Discovery Channel series “American Loggers,” at the East Coast Sawmill and Logging Equipment Exposition, May 21-22 in Richmond, ... Read more |
Caterpillar Forest Products appoints ex-logger as industry liaison | Jul 9, 2010 Joe Allen has been named forest industry representative, a newly created position in the Caterpillar Forest Products marketing department.... Read more |
Northern Pulp Nova Scotia announces new Forest Research Program| Jul 5, 2010 Northern Pulp’s initiative and $1 million investment over five years will drive research to study the impacts of current forest management practices and help shape and improve forest management strategies in the future, the company ... Read more |
Global Alliance launched to curb trade in illegal wood| May 31, 2010 The Forest Legality Alliance was launched to support private sector efforts and policies to reduce trade in illegally harvested ... Read more |
Fourth-generation Carlisle joins Prentiss & Carlisle forest management team| May 25, 2010 Benjamin Carlisle has joined the team of the 85-year-old forest resource management ... Read more |
Online learning for landowners| Dec 22, 2009 The USDA and Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service offer an online National Learning Center for Private Forest and Range Landowners.... Read more |
CROP website helps forest industry plan fiber supply| Dec 22, 2009 The CROP (Coordinated Resource Offering Protocol) interactive website, developed through a partnership between the Utah Forestry, Fire and State lands, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and Oregon-based Mater Ltd., allows easy access to resource offering information within and between public agencies in a landscape.... Read more |
If a tree falls in the forest, is it a crime? | Jul 12, 2010 Illegal timber harvesting has major environmental, economic and social implications worldwide. It's estimated that 15 percent of the trillion dollar global wood products trade is connected to illegal sources.... Read more |
If a tree falls in the forest, is anybody there? | Apr 26, 2010 As the forest industry recovers, some observers are looking ahead and seeing a forest (the way many environmentalists would like to see it) with no loggers in it.... Read more |
Fuel savings start at the pump | Dec 22, 2009 The fuel pod monitor developed for research may be a new tool to help logging operators control fuel co... Read more |
Logging beetle kill pine in B.C. Paul Luft | Dec 22, 2009 For the past five or six years, many B.C. contractors have focused almost exclusively on harvesting stands of dead lodgepole pi... Read more |
CAT felling heads more durable and productive | Aug 3, 2010 Caterpillar Forest Products recently announced enhancements to improve durability and performance of the Cat® HF201 and HF221 felling heads for track feller bunchers. Both heads are available in partial or full tilt ... Read more |
John Deere offers Autoshift option on H-Series skidders | Jul 26, 2010 In response to common productivity and operational challenges throughout the logging industry, John Deere has introduced new Autoshift functionality on its popular line of H-Series Skidders.... Read more |
New Puma forwarder offers simple, durable productivity | Jul 26, 2010 Expanding on its complete “stump to chip” equipment lineup, Norco Equipment has introduced a new 6-wheel forwarder developed to provide simple, durable, and effective ... Read more |
Western States offers deal on safety courses | Jul 21, 2010 Caterpillar dealer Western States Equipment is offering 25 percent off on a purchase of 4 or more safety courses on safety.cat.com. And, you could win an i-pod.... Read more |
John Deere introduces revolutionary E-Series to North America | Apr 27, 2010 John Deere has introduced the revolutionary E-Series forest machines to North America, following its initial launch in Europe.... Read more |
Tigercat retails prototype 1135 harvester | Apr 20, 2010 In late 2009, after three years of intensive product development, Tigercat completed the prototype 1135 harvester, shipping it to Sweden where it underwent intensive product testing throughout the winter with a number of harvesting contractors.... Read more |
John Deere launches powerful 900 K-Series Feller Bunchers | Apr 12, 2010 The John Deere 900 K-Series Tracked Feller Bunchers pack plenty of power. The largest, the 953K and the 959K, come with an industry-first 330-hp engine standard, while the smaller 903K and 909K have dual power options at 300 hp and 330 hp, respectively.... Read more |
Ponsse BTS-BIO Transport System | Dec 22, 2009 This new PONSSE BTS system allows loads to exceed standard fixed bunks by more then fifty percent when compressing forest ... Read more |
Lower cost processor | Dec 22, 2009 Tigercat's H250B processor carrier is designed for roadside processing applications and light duty in-woods harvesting.... Read more |
Prentice boosts productivity | Dec 22, 2009 Prentice skidders boost productivity, not costs. Higher horsepower has reduced cycle times and boosted productivity with no increase in fuel cost per to... Read more |
Spotted in the wild | Dec 22, 2009 At Acadian Timber, being on the SPOT helps keep remote workers sa... Read more |
New heavy duty feller bunchers | Dec 22, 2009 Volvo Construction Equipment’s new C-Series heavy-duty tracked feller bunchers introduced at DEMO International 2008 are the first of 3 new Volvo feller buncher models that will hit the market in early 20... Read more |
