Bev Bruton
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LOGS CLOG HIGHWAY
BACKGROUND: On a mild, late fall afternoon in the Southeast, a log truck was merging onto an Interstate highway. Winds were fairly calm, and the road surface was dry.
Important H-2B Guestworker Litigation Breakthrough
On April 26, Judge M. Casey Rodgers, of the Northern District Court of Florida, issued a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing its new H-2B Program Rule. This Rule, which governs employers’ treatment of foreign guestworkers regulated under the H-2B visa program, would have imposed new costs, minimum work guarantees, multiple itineraries, and worker housing inspection requirements to the extent of making the program unworkable for many industries, including reforestation.
Sappi North America: “eQ Journal”
We’ve been directed to a web resource that Sappi Fine Paper North America recently launched, branded as “eQ,” which provides, apparently on a quarterly basis, downloadable publications on various sustainability topics, designed with high production values.
Log A Load for Kids Update 2012
My name is Rich Palermo, and I am honored and humbled to be elected the first Log A Load For Kids® Foundation Chairman of the Board. I would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincerest gratitude to our past Chairwoman, Lisa Medici of Medici Logging, from Westwood, California, for her success in leading the Log A Load For Kids Advisory Group to its newly gained Foundation status.
RECENT U.S. REFORESTATION TRENDS
TECHNICAL RELEASE 12-R-5
The U.S. Census reported that annual housing starts declined 72% between 2005 and 2010, from 2.07 million to 0.59 million. The associated decline in lumber manufacturing and demand for wood raw material have affected forest harvesting and associated reforestation trends in the United States over the past ten years.
BIOMASS SUPPLY AVAILABILITY: IS THER ENOUGH WOOD TO GO AROUND?
TECHNICAL 12-R-6
Surveys/Studies: biomass February 2012
This research is excerpted from the Wood Supply Research Institute (WSRI) project, “Integrating Large-Scale Biomass into the US Wood Supply System,” a collaborative effort by Forisk Consulting and the Center for Forest Business at the University of Georgia. This analysis estimates potential impacts from emerging wood-using bioenergy markets on traditional forest raw material supplies.
MODULAR PLASTIC ARCH CULVERT
TECHNICAL RELEASE 12-R9
Bridges: culverts
Loggers and landowners faced with installing road crossings of fish-bearing streams typically use bridges or steel arch culverts to maintain stream bed integrity and fish passage. Northeast Region FRA member Prentiss & Carlisle recently installed a new product, Enviro-Span’s Modular Plastic Culvert, that offers easier installation and more flexibility in crossing design than traditional alternatives.