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March 10, 2021
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Market Minute | Supply Chain Sustainability & Timber Prices

The Top News

  • Forbes: Pent Up Demand Keeping Lumber Prices High As Building Season Nears
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  • WSJ: Lumber Prices Are Soaring. Why Are Tree Growers Miserable?
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  • Rayonier Releases Carbon Report Quantifying Its Net Positive Climate Impact
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  • Yahoo! Finance: Interfor to Acquire South Carolina Sawmill from WestRock
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  • AJC: Georgia becomes 10th largest U.S. exporting state for first time, Outperforms U.S. exports in 2020
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  • Agri-Pulse: Mr. Secretary, start with America’s rural family forest owners to help tackle climate change
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Forestry Headlines

  • Toyota just started building a 175-acre smart city at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Photos offer a glimpse of what the ‘Woven City’ will look like. You guessed — it has mass timber buildings. // medium.com →
  • A Boston-based architecture firm recently released Tallhouse, a digital library of mass timber building systems to help architects build affordable housing and reduce construction-related carbon emissions by up to 50 percent. Where do we sign up? // deezen.com →
  • This Q&A with The Climate Trust and The Nature Conservancy discusses the perspectives of both organizations on role of working forests in carbon sequestration, including forest products. // cleantechnica.com →
  • An investor is seeking to open biochar plant in Maine to leverage harvesting residuals for soil conditioning products. // concordmonitor.com →
  • Want to plant billions of trees? American Forests says there should be more investment in expanding nursery capacity. // medium.com →
    • PS: Georgia leads the nation in seedling production (shameless plug)
  • Our friends at the National Alliance of Forest Owners joined the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance to help guide the development of federal climate legislation. // forbes.com →

 

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