The Top News
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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 →
Upcoming Events
- February 18
The Woman Landowner Workshops: Reforestation Techniques
Albany, GA - February 19
Team Safe Trucking: Module One – Introduction to Team Safe Trucking
Virtual Event - February 25
Forestry Day at the Capitol
Virtual Event - February 25
How to Talk about Southern Forests with the Public
Virtual Event - February 25
Unprecedented Seasons | Virtual Lecture Series
Virtual Event - March 4
Forisk’s Applied Forest Finance Class
Virtual Event - March 23
Team Safe Trucking: Module Two – Clearances, Distracted Driving, Preventing Rollovers, Speeding
Virtual Event - March 30 – April 1
Mass Timber Conference
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