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The U.S. wood supply system is the largest and most highly developed in the world, providing the raw material that furnishes our country’s seventh largest industrial sector: forest products. Overregulation threatens this system’s ability to continue to serve both its economic and environmental goals.
Friday, 20 April 2018 14:28
Hanington Brothers Celebrates 60 Years of Logging and Family
by Eric Kingsley | FRA Northeast Region Coordinator
In 1958, Hollis Hanington, Jr. started Hanington Brothers, heading into the woods with horses to cut and skid timber. In the sixty years since, the company has grown and evolved into one of...
Thursday, 12 April 2018 11:32
Why We Need the H-2C Program for Forestry
by Tony Doster | Resource Management Service, LLC
Why do we need individuals with Agricultural “guestworker” visas to meet our treeplanting and silvicultural needs in the U.S.?
Wednesday, 04 April 2018 14:57
See you in New Orleans - April 16 – 18, 2018
by Deb Hawkinson | President
We’re less than two weeks away from FRA’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans, and this year’s agenda and networking opportunities promise something for everyone. With great topics and discussions throughout the meeting and...
A short 50 years ago, I started work at Weyerhaeuser’s Pulp R&D lab in Everett, Washington with degrees in Wood Technology and Pulp and Paper Science. This combination allowed me to pursue chip quality from the unique perspective of forest to the product.