Portfolio Tag: job creation

Wood products industry shows job growth

Wood products industry shows job growth
The Bulletin has published an article which takes a look at how forest restoration treatments have increased job opportunities in our community. "The projected growth in the wood-products industry is being fueled by new housing starts and a focus on harvesting smaller-diameter logs and forest restoration work where companies are using the harvest to fuel…
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Forest Restoration Creates Logging Jobs

Forest Restoration Creates Logging Jobs
Logging is up in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest in Idaho under the U.S. Forest Service timber program that focuses less on commercial sales and instead sees logs as a byproduct of restoration and efforts to cut the risk of fire. [Read the Full Article]
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