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Friday, April 11, 2008

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The WoodPro Files....
• Federal Income Taxes: Four Essential "To-Do's" for Forest Landowners
• Changing the Organization
• Survival of the Fittest
• Self-organizing microtubule networks and their role in wood science (text & video)
• Environmental Scanning: Looking "Outside" for Strategic Intelligence
• Bark-Free Pallets - A Summary of the Issue
• Bark-Free Pallets? The Issue Facing the World's Wooden Pallet Industry
• On sharing cost information with customers
• Energy from Wood!
• The best of times, the worst of times
• Lean Manufacturing for the Wood Products Industry
• WoodPro 2004 Conference Highlights
• The Great Maple Stain of 2002
• Is Your Company in Double Jeopardy?
• Tools that Help Level the Playing Field (Stage 1: Analyzing Constraints)
• Tools that Help Level the Playing Field (Stage 2: Re-prioritizing Goals)
• Tools that Help Level the Playing Field (Stage 3: Re-allocation of resources)
• Web Browsing Tips for the Wood Industry Professional
• Export Prices For Wood Chips From Canada And The Us To Japan Reach 13 Year High In 2008 (4-11-08)
• Forestry firm invests in its own future in Okla.(4-10-08)
• Weak buying causes softwood lumber supply cut (4-9-08)
http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA6549633.html?industryid=48401
• Housing slump forces 84 Lumber to close 30 stores (4-8-08)
• Staples Ends Contracts With Asia Pulp on Environment (2-7-08)
• Pulpwood offers hope despite timber market (4-8-08)
• Hardwood lumber industry struggles (4-4-08)
• Wood Products Companies Take on Global Warming (4-3-08)
• IFCO Senior Managers Indicted For Immigrant Worker Conspiracy (4-1-08)
• Weyerhaeuser sells containerboard unit for $6 billion (3-18-07)
• International Paper Shredded By Moody's On Buy (3-17-08)
• International Paper buys Weyerhaeuser units (3-17-08)
• Five IFCO managers indicted on federal charges stemming from employing undocumented workers (3-12-08)
• Weyerhaeuser to close sawmill earlier (3-7-08)
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8V8J0OO0.htm
• Weyerhaeuser to lay off workers at Albany plant (3-7-08)
• IFCO managers accused of illegal hiring (2-29-08)
• Sun Capital looking to buy Furniture Brands (2-21-08)
• Temple-Inland laying off dozens more employees from Diboll facility (2-22-08)
• Temple-Inland frontrunner in bid for Weyerhaeuser’s containerboard business, but Georgia-Pacific could have Temple-Inland in its sights (2-19-08)
• Conference Highlights Global Investment Potential for Timberland (2-26-08)
• PG and E Buys Carbon In California Trees (2-26-08)
• Black Hills timber industry fights 'LEED' (2-22-08)
• Potlatch Profit Falls 75 Percent (2-4-08)
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/d08f92dcd0a1679b671e48e66d137747.htm
• TOUGH TIMES AHEAD IN WOOD (2-3-08)
• Danube invests USD 15 million in new manufacturing facilities in China (2-3-08)
• Troymill (OH) Wood Products Rebuilt (2-1-08)
• Weak housing market forces Maine sawmill closures (1-30-08)
• Billionaire to Canada: Time for amero is now (11-27-07)
• US warns EU on using climate change as pretext (1-22-08)
• Will carbon tax survive economic storm? (1-22-08)
• BC forest industry faces dire times (1-22-08)
• Carbon Trading (1-1-08)
• Nature Conservancy proposes plan to save troubled Pacific Lumber (1-16-08)
• Mississippi forestry industry sees falling prices (1-7-08)
• Canfor writedown first cut in 'bloodbath' (1-10-08)
• No miracle cure expected in federal relief plan for jobless forestry workers (1-10-08)
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hNuRdE_8VDdQASA2Q8408a3q_W2A