Sentences with phrase «timber industries»

The chemical and timber industries are working across the country to eliminate energy efficiency standards modeled on the latest version of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), the industry standard that is used in over 3.3 billion square feet...

These same leaders are also well aware that the political power of the fossil fuel and timber industries in the US exceeds that of any other country, except possibly Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

The port services the farming and timber industries of the south west originally connect via an extensive rail network.

«The timber industries are really not set up to do that,» says Range Fuels» Mandich.

Outside agencies started a large number of timber industries, and after all the big trees have been cut and deforestation has taken place they closed them.

Having spent 50 + years in the timber industry I have been tracking this company for the last two years and consider them a good bet I don't hold shares but if the short sellers force them down below a dollar then I will swoop like a bald headed eagle

«I personally would not call it a political slush fund; I'd call it a timber industry slush fund.»

The U. S. timber industry charged that this support has given the Canadian lumber industry an unfair advantage over U. S. lumber.

Just 14 yrs, and before that I worked in the timber industry.

Yep, but then I worked in the timber industry for 25 yrs, and a jillion expectations too.

You may have to sacrifice some goats to save the palilla.10 Or you may have to jeopardize a few jobs in the already declining timber industry of the Northwest (already devastated by our inane trading policy with Japan) to save an old - growth forest.

He indicated that Sekondi - Takoradi Metropolis was booming because the sea port, timber industry and the railway company were operating effectively.

Caldwell got a different view of the cattle industry last month, when he held another # 2LaneTravls Work Day focused on the cattle and timber industry.

He also pitched reforms to broaden and make more accessible tax incentives for private forest owners, a measure that would aid in conservation and strengthen the state's timber industry.

«We hope to demonstrate the powerful benefits to the U.S. agriculture and timber industry of protecting tropical rainforests,» Glenn Hurowitz, Washington director for Avoided Deforestation Partners and director of the Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, said of the motivation behind the report, which comes just as senators will be heading to their home states for the Memorial Day weekend.

As a result, the service has been the subject of countless protests and lawsuits by environmental groups and the timber industry.

For going tall with wood, «CLT was kind of the trigger,» says Erol Karacabeyli, a veteran engineer at a Vancouver lab of FPInnovations, a nonprofit created by the Canadian government and the timber industry to find new ways to use wood.

There are already techniques to protect the timber industry and cattle farmers in the south - east of the US from a water shortage, including drip irrigation and better early warning systems.

The Japanese timber industry produces some 4000 tonnes of T. dolabrata sawdust each year.

Unfortunately for the atmosphere and the forests themselves, working out an agreement with the tropical timber industry will be far easier than eliminating rural poverty.

«The way things stand now, if something that loves sugar maple, like the Asian longhorn beetle, ever got here, we could lose our hardwood timber industry.»

The debate has pitted scientists against each other, and some environmental groups against the timber industry.

The two men worried that the booming timber industry would, if left unchecked, level some of the West's most spectacular forests.

The provincial and national governments had promoted the timber industry in Sichuan as a way of employing people.

Proponents say the Far North Act will have little effect on the timber industry because it affects an area farther north where trees are relatively small, grow less densely and are not economical to harvest.

Two industry giants, International Paper Co. and MeadWestvaco Corp., are planning to transform plantation forests of the southeastern United States by replacing native pine with genetically engineered eucalyptus, a rapidly growing Australian tree that in its conventional strains now dominates the tropical timber industry.

The timber industry has long dreamed of importing eucalyptus into the South, mimicking Brazil's success, where plantations transformed the country — at some environmental toll — from a timber importer to an exporter within decades.

If successful, ArborGen would likely revolutionize the timber industry and the Southern landscape by becoming the first company to roll out bioengineered trees on a massive scale, observers say.

Rather than supporting the timber industry's lies, they concluded that the status of the northern spotted owl is MUCH WORSE than stated by the USF&W.

The USF&W recently commissioned a study of the status of the northern spotted owl, after the timber industry (believing their own propaganda) urged the Bush administration to do so.

Cherry wood is highly valued in the timber industry for making fine furniture, hardwood floors, musical instruments, and wine casks.

As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry.

Every year the city hosts a festival in celebration of the timber industry and its positive effect on the local economy.

Central Point, just a few miles north of Medford, began as a crossroads for two major pioneer roads and has become an active center for tourism, agriculture and the timber industry.

When timber industry fell apart in the early part of this century, the woods stopped being logged.

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We drive to Pinnacle near Graskop, which also used to be a gold diggers village, but now it's a large center of the timber industry.

It's a forest consisting of pine, spruce, cedar, and eucalyptus trees introduced to Hawaii in hopes of creating a viable timber industry and reestablishing the watershed.

About 20 years later the timber industry moved into the region, and railways and roads were routed through the area for accessibility to the trees.

Make this your base, take the trail to local wineries, pubs, the very interesting Local Timber Industry Museum and Art Gallery, visit local dams, even do some fishing or play a round of golf.

By making a plank of wood out of plastic paint, Livingston also points to the role of mechanized production in the timber industry.

Chicago - based artist Sara Black and Aotearoa New Zealand artist Raewyn Martyn transform Hyde Park Art Center's Gallery 1 into an immersive built landscape constructed in response to the far - reaching timber industry that grew out of the south branch of the Chicago River.

They are also petrified by farm lobbies and the timber industry.

That argument could be used by the timber industry to justify liquidating the northern spotted owl.

The group grew out of a collaboration between The United Steelworkers union (which has long had a very enlightened view of environmental issues) and people opposed to timber industry practices.

The timber industry has had more success in corrupting IPCC than the fossil fuel companies.

I'm a social science major at Portland State University but even I can tell when someone is twisting facts for economic gain (the timber industry).

The timber industry in the West is evil.

Here's where it gets weird: after the storm of December 2007 in Washington, when huge landslides closed roads and buried people and vehicles, the timber industry sent out spokesmen blaming it on nature and denying any responsibility.

So by that argument, the timber industry can say «killing 10,000 spotted owl is nothing, after all cats kill 100 million birds each and every year!»