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News in The Wood Products Industry
January 20, 2008
SmartWood offers growers 'green seal'
BRISTOL -- Snow fell softly as four visitors climbed a gently sloping woods road to survey one of Vermont's first green-certified forests. Read more...
March 28,2007
Vermont WoodNet was again this year's sponsor of the Cabinet Building competion of Skills USA in Essex Junction. Nine high school students contestants were in the competition. Thanks to Vermont WoodNet members Bob Bouvier, Bill Baynham, Dave Spooner, Dale Bergdahl, Emile Cote, Ursula Currie and Joe Laferriere.
The cabinets are currently on display at the Vermont MapleWood Gallery in Stowe, VT.
December 26, 2006
New Vermont Wood Company Offers “Exclusively Vermont Wood Products”
BRISTOL, VT- Exclusively Vermont Wood Products, LLC of Bristol, VT is excited to announce that they have developed a truly unique line of hardwood and softwood products for both wood manufacturers and consumers. Thomas Lathrop, owner and fifth generation lumberman, is very happy to give Vermont craftsmen and homeowners the valuable choice of having Vermont wood in their product or their homes. Read more...
December 24, 2006
Two Timber Firms Pretending To Be 'Green', Groups Allege
Envifonmentalists Want Companies' Lucrative Certification Revoked
Seattle -- Two of the nation's largets timber companies, Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek Timber, have polished their public images for years by participating in a program that certifies that their logging is environmentally friendly. Read more...
December 10, 2006
Professor tries to save blighted butternuts
JERICHO — In the 29 years since a fungal disease known as butternut canker was first observed in southwest Wisconsin, it has infected more than 90 percent of butternut trees throughout their native range from New Brunswick, Canada, to Georgia to Minnesota. Read more...
July 14, 2006
New Power Plant helps Ethan Allen Factory
BEECHER FALLS – Vermont's only remaining furniture manufacturer taking wood from forest to sawmill and finished product now is producing something else too: Electrical power, which will allow it to cut electricity costs and stay in the U.S. Read more...
July 12, 2006
VINS puts its name on "green" furniture
The Vermont Institute of Natural Science is partnering with a Ludlow company to create a branded line of handcrafted "green" furniture, with a portion of sales benefiting VINS. Read more...
April 10, 2006
The means to be daring and innovative
For the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, making a difference in the Vermont economy is a task that starts at the ground. Read more...