The Montana Wood Products Association
The Montana Wood Products Association was founded in 1972 and serves as a major voice for the wood products industry while actively dealing with timber, logging, and wood products manufacturing issues in the public arena, and with state and federal government.Mission Statement: To promote healthy forests and healthy communities through management of Montana’s forests.
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$250M biomass energy plant planned in Washington (KING 5 News, 2/8/2010)
…Areva, the international energy company based in France, and Charlotte, N.C., based Duke Energy have formed a joint venture to build a biomass energy plant at Shelton…
Anaconda man lands on 'Ax-men' (Montana Standard, 2/8/2010)
…Drama draws from Wyant's competition with two other pilots as they learn the principles of flying a 180-foot long line over 4,000-pound loads of logs in the Bitterroot Valley…
MIchigan: Locals worry biomass harvesting will harm tourism, recreation (Michigan Messenger, 2/8/2010)
…If biomass harvesters remove small branches and brush this leaves less nutrients and less coarse woody debris on the forest floor…
Tester, Rehberg spend time in the Bitterroot (Ravalli Republic, 2/8/2010)
…Tester explained. “It’s all about jobs. Creating jobs, and keeping jobs in the state of Montana…
Why I'm not an Environmentalist (Renew America, 2/8/2010)
…environmentalism forgets about people…
Wood biomass market report details new draft rules for Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) (IT News, 2/8/2010)
…new "draft" rules announced by the Farm Services Agency for the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) come closer to providing assurances that wood for higher-value products will not be diverted for use as biomass…
Forest bill: Unrealistic goals? (Daily Inter Lake Editorial, 2/7/2010)
…the concern that Rehberg raises about the potential for environmental groups to take legal action to stop logging provisions in the bill. There is a long track record of environmental litigation that has delayed or derailed many forest management projects, so the concern is valid…
Logging lightly (Independent Record, 2/7/2010)
…it’s designed to move heavy loads with less ground pressure than a human foot…
Rehberg's trigger proposal would kill forest bill (Missoulian Op/Ed, 2/7/2010)
…your trigger language provides no additional legal sanction. Instead, it would fatally infect the process. For your proposal reveals your ignorance of the 1964 Wilderness Act and the subsequent system of federally managed wilderness areas…
Tester bill would fell Forest Service (Missoulian Guest Opinion, 2/7/2010)
…Congressionally mandating logging quotas and legislatively dictating management would convert our national forests into “private-local forests.” This is directly contrary to 113 years of precedence…
Logging, wilderness bill Tester offers changes (Montana Standard, 2/6/2010)
…Sen. Jon Tester said Friday that he is making several changes to a plan that both increases logging and wilderness area in Montana, hoping to ease fears of those who worry the logging won't really take place…
New proposal protects bull trout and water (New West, 2/6/2010)
…On January 13th, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released a new critical habitat designation for bull trout throughout the Northwest, including western Montana…
Tester announces changes to Montana jobs, wilderness bill (Missoulian, 2/6/2010)
…In all, Tester proposed 21 changes to S. 1470. Many involve assurances that 10,000 acres a year of timber would be cut, with proper scientific monitoring and protection from excessive litigation…
Corruption, collusion, or legal thievery (Canadian Free Press, 2/5/2010)
…During these five years, tax dollars have funded environmental groups to the tune of $4.7 billion dollars in attorney fees alone. Another $1.6 million was paid between 2003 and 2005 from the Equal Access to Justice Act…
Rehberg wants wilderness 'phase in' (Daily Inter Lake, 2/5/2010)
…An “overriding concern” at the meetings, Rehberg said, is that the bill’s wilderness designations would be immediate, “while there is no assurance that stewardship components would not be infinitely delayed by litigation.”…
Bark beetles rocked by sound (Arizona Daily Sun, 2/4/2010)
…"We found we could disrupt mating, tunneling and reproduction. We could even make the beetles turn on each other, which normally they would not do."…
Changes on the horizon for forest jobs bill (Western News, 2/4/2010)
…Tester mentioned modifications to S. 1470 such as “changes where folks can cut trees … giving the Forest Service more flexibility” … “changes as far as where the lines are"…
Defining, identifying, and protecting old-growth trees (Western Institute for the Study of the Environment, 2/3/2010)
…Future management of these and similar stands should recognize the dynamic changes occurring, and develop multicohort silvicultural strategies for retaining and replacing large trees, an important component of current forest structure…
Forest gridlock breakthrough victories for Montana (Public News Service, 2/3/2010)
…The U.S. Forest Service is holding meetings today (Wednesday) on two proposed restoration projects that include jobs everyone agrees on…
Global warming good for trees: Study (Yahoo! News, 2/3/2010)
…Global warming is helping trees to grow faster as it brings higher temperatures, longer growing seasons and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a study by US researchers shows…
Leave it to Mother Nature (Independent Record Op/Ed, 2/3/2010)
…Most of the damage by the mountain pine beetles is already done and throwing $20 million at the Forest Service for the most part is useless…
Rehberg's Forest Bill solution is not a workable one (Montana Standard Op/Ed, 2/3/2010)
…Your "our land," "the public's land", versus "their land" reveals a worn-out, divide-and-conquer ploy.…
US looks to avoid wood price spike from fuel subsidy (Fox News, 2/3/2010)
…The U.S. government will be counting on a set of tightly structured rules to keep new subsidies for biomass fuel from driving up prices for wood products and paper…
Biomass option still on the table for Flathead Electric (Daily Inter Lake, 2/2/2010)
…the board has instructed management to pursue all kinds of alternative energy sources. There is a state-directed goal of having 15 percent of the co-op’s power coming from renewable sources by 2015…
New report claims "catastrophic wildfires" a myth (Press Release, John Muir Project, 2/2/2010)
…The report, “The Myth of Catastrophic Wildfire: A New Ecological Paradigm of Forest Health”, is a comprehensive synthesis of the scientific evidence regarding wildland fire and its relationship to biodiversity and climate change in western U.S. forests…
Proposed pellet mill supported by county (Ravalli Republic, 2/2/2010)
…Supporters of the Bitterroot Pellet Mill are currently hunting for about $7 million in federal stimulus funds to open a non-profit wood pellet mill…
Smurfit agrees to look at uses for shuttered Frenchtown plant (Missoulian, 2/2/2010)
…“It was a first good step in moving things forward,” King said. “They said they are willing to cooperate and willing to talk to potential buyers.”…
Study finds tree growth spurt (New York Times, 2/2/2010)
…After controlling for other variables, scientists concluded that the change resulted largely from the increase in carbon dioxide, a major factor in climate change
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Weyerhaeuser-Mitsubishi in biomass fuel deal (Business Journal, 2/2/2010)
…The Federal Way timber giant and the Tokyo trading company said they’re interested in the feasibility of opening a commercial-scale production facility next year…
