Archive

  • June 30, 2001 00:00

ECOLOGICAL SITE CLASSIFICATION GOES HI-TECH

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...]

  • Forestry
  • June 29, 2001 00:00

Logging Giant Boise Cascade and Anti-Environment Activists on the Attack Against RAN

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...]

  • Forestry
  • June 29, 2001 00:00

WOODMACASIA DOUBLES IN SIZE

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...]

  • Forestry
  • June 29, 2001 00:00

Pacific Lumber Company Operations Certified Sustainable

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...]

  • June 29, 2001 00:00

International Paper Announces Restructuring and Profit Improvement Plans

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...]

  • June 28, 2001 00:00

Euro-zone external trade deficit 3.0 bn euro in April 2001

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...]

  • June 27, 2001 00:00

EPA Administrator Christie Whitman Addresses 2001 Environmental Excellence Award Winners

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...]

  • June 27, 2001 00:00

Holmen: Dates fixed for financial reports and Annual General Meeting in 2002

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...]

  • Forestry
  • June 26, 2001 00:00

European timber trade slowing down

Lars Karlsson, President of the European Timber Trade Federation (FEBO), outlined the economic situation of the European timber trade ...... [more...]

  • June 23, 2001 00:00

NEW CHAIRMAN FOR FORESTRY ADVISORY PANEL

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...]

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