by Web Editor | Feb 10, 2014 | The Issues
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief Okay, it’s obvious when you look at the accompanying photo of our current editorial team that some of these editors aren’t old enough to have made much of a dent in very many of the 400 issues of Timber Processing—the issue in...
by Web Editor | Dec 11, 2013 | The Issues
2013 Uplifting, Brighter 2014 Article by Jessica Johnson, Associate Editor, Timber Processing What a year 2013 turned out to be! As one of the “new kids on the block” in sawmilling, I definitely found this year to be an interesting one. I’ll spare the details of my...
by Web Editor | Oct 30, 2013 | The Issues
Story by David Abbott, Senior Associate Editor As I write this in mid-October, one of our editors, Jessica Johnson, is representing the company’s logging magazines at a press event in Finland. Jessica’s venture marks the third time this year members of the...
by Web Editor | Oct 11, 2013 | The Issues
Where People And Technologies Fit Together Article by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief, Timber Processing (2013) A couple of months ago I wrote in this space of my concern for the extinction of the Southern independent lumberman. I cited some corporate purchases of...
by Web Editor | Sep 11, 2013 | The Issues
Story by Dan Shell, Managing Editor Easing into the second half of 2013, lumber markets reflect a housing industry giving off very mixed signals. Lumber producers have enjoyed a surge in prices beginning in fall 2012 that have essentially led to a solid year of...
by Web Editor | Aug 9, 2013 | The Issues
Story by Rich Donnell, Editor-in-Chief We had our doubts, and it seems everybody else did as well. Back in May 2012, the U.S. Forest Service selected a company nobody had ever heard of, Pioneer Forest Products, to perform restoration thinning on 300,000 acres over 10...