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A new, PC-based decision support system (DSS) for Ecological Site Classification (ESC) has just been made available by the Forestry Commission.
The ESC-DSS is designed to match key site factors with the ecological requirements of different tree species and woodland communities anywhere in Great Britain.
ESC-DSS can provide information to assist species choice if the user supplies a grid re... [more...]
Anti-environmental activists stepped up the campaign against Rainforest Action Network (RAN) by requesting that the Internal Revenue Service repeal RAN’s non-profit status. The campaign may be the extension of efforts by Boise Cascade - the embattled logging giant responsible for clear-cutting National Forests in the U.S. - to smear RAN for its successful campaign protecting forests by reducing co... [more...]
WoodmacAsia turns 10 this year, and after serving the region’s woodworking industry for over 20 years, the region’s longest running event has much cause to celebrate. With some nine months to the opening of the event, organiser, Singapore Exhibition Services (SES) has reported that more than 80% of space has already been booked.
“The show will be double the size of the 1999 event,” said Mr Will... [more...]
The nation's leading forestry certification program has recognized The Pacific Lumber Company's wood products as produced from sustainably managed forests. Pacific Lumber is the first North Coast commercial forest products company to be certified under the American Forest & Paper Association's (AF&PA's) Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) (TM) Program.
A third party audit conducted by Arthur... [more...]
International Paper announced today that it will eliminate 3,000 jobs from its domestic workforce. The majority of the job reductions will occur in the next 12 months through a streamlining of the company's staff support functions, as well as by organizational changes within several of its operating businesses. The reductions represent ten percent of the company's U.S. salaried workforce, excludin... [more...]
The first estimate for euro-zone trade with the rest of the world in April 2001 was a 3.0 billion euro deficit, compared with a surplus of 0.2 bn in April 2000. The revised March 2001 surplus was 3.2 bn, against +3.6 bn in March 2000. Euro-zone trade recorded a deficit of 5.6 bn for the first four months of 2001, compared with -1.8 bn in 2000.
The first estimate for April 2001 extra-EU15 trade wa... [more...]
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman today recognized William H. Crawford, Frederick, Okla., and Keith Etheridge, East Lansing, Mich., for earning the "2001 Environmental Excellence Awards," presented by International Paper and The Conservation Fund. EPA Administrator Whitman was the keynote speaker at the event. International Paper Executive Vice President C. Wesley Smit... [more...]
Holmen's reporting in 2002 will be as follows:
January 31 Year-end communiqué for 2001
April 29 Interim report for January - March
August 15 Ditto, January - June
October 29 Ditto, January - September
The Annual General Meeting will be held on March 20.... [more...]
Caledonian Paper MD, Martin Gale has been appointed Chairman of the Forestry Commission Advisory Panel (FCAP).
The Panel's role is to advise the Forestry Commissioners on a wide range of forestry-related matters. It has three sub-committees looking at supply and demand; environment and technical issues. The Commissioners have a statutory duty to maintain the Panel under the Forestry Act 1967.... [more...]