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•	On the Issue of Wood Co-firing of Coal-Fired Power Plants
•	The Truth about Sawmill Over-Run
•	Going Green with a Black Locust Deck
•	The Wood Pellet Industry in Pennsylvania
•	Trends in Hardwood Lumber Demand
•	The US Housing Crisis - Overbuilt and Overbought
•	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

•	Fraser Papers set to reopen Plaster Rock mill after nine-month closure (11-7-09)
•	Lumber Industry Sees Hopeful Signs of Slow Recovery Starting In 2010 (11-10-09)
•	EcoBlu Products Introduces New Glulam Beam at NAWLA Traders Market (11-10-09)
•	Canadian paper industry defends against IEA environmental criticism (11-9-09)
•	Forests minister heading to China to sell B.C. wood (11-4-09)
•	IEA's Report on 1st- to 2nd-Generation Biofuel Technologies (3-9-09)
•	How Wood Chips Can Keep You Warm — and Green (10-24-09)
•	The Economic Consequences of Waxman-Markey: An Analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (8-6-09)
•	Coskata Unveils Semi-Commercial Feedstock Flexible Ethanol Facility in Madison, PA (10-15-09)
•	Wood-chip ethanol maker opens plant (10-15-09)
•	Space agencies, Google seek ways to save forests (10-20-09)
•	What happened to global warming? (10-9-09)
•	Forest Products Industry Stable; Expenditures Slow to Return (audio)
•	The trees are there; we need the will (10-6-09)
•	California's Timber Industry Strikes Gold (10-6-09)
•	Biomass moving in (10-2-09)
•	Sierra Pacific Industries makes huge carbon deal (10-2-09)
•	World’s largest biomass plant gets environmental clearance (9-30-09)
•	Spanish & Solar: A Model to Follow or a Cautionary Tale? (9-25-09)
•	Tasmanian pulp mill hangs in balance (9-17-09)
•	Argentina, Uruguay Pulp Mill Spat Moves To International Court (9-14-09)
•	Utopia mill welcomes rebate extension (9-23-09)
•	Putting the punch in pellets (9-8-09)
•	Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Announces Common Stock Offering (9-21-09)
•	New program pays biomass plant suppliers (9-17-09)
•	Feds help to boost U.P. biomass industry (9-16-09)
•	Dan Richter discusses Wood Energy in America courtesy of Timber Talk Radio
•	Plum Creek Renamed to Dow Jones Sustainability Index (9-17-09)
•	Weyerhaeuser, APG Investments, TIAA-CREF and Potlatch Corporation to Speak at the 6th Timberland Investment World Summit (9-17-09)
•	Ahead of the Bell: Plum Creek Timber upgraded (9-11-09)
•	Debt Ratings Disfavor Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek (9-11-09)
•	Six head to Paper Industry International Hall of Fame (9-9-09)
•	Settlement proposals due in IP mill explosion suit (9-7-09)
•	Biomass Power As a Firm Utility Resource: Bigger Not Necessarily Better Or Cheaper
•	Tembec's permanently closed sawmill in Mattawa, Ontario, along with its 55 hectare site, has been sold to the Mattawa Bonfield Economic Development Corp. for $1 (9-5-09)
•	Pacific BioEnergy buys Kitwanga mill (9-4-09)
•	Sweden consumes more than 20% of the worlds wood pellets and demand is growing (9-3-09)
•	Forest Products Industry Stable; Expenditures Slow to Return (podcast; 9-2-09)
•	Congress Debates Key Legislation: Hardwood Lobbyist Provides Analysis (9-1-09)
•	We Energies announces $250 million biomass plant near Wausau (9-1-09)
•	Times Hit Wood Industry Hard (8-25-09)
•	Forest industry seeks ideas for non-conventional wood products (9-1-09)
•	Bioenergy developments in Scandinavia and China (8-28-09)
•	Cellulosic Ethanol Getting Closer (8-10-09)
•	Wood Waste Alone Can Give Bulgaria 13.5 TWh of Heat Power Annually (7-29-09)
•	'No light at end of tunnel' for paper packaging, says Stora Enso (8-26-09)
•	Int'l Paper CFO sees flat demand (8-25-09)
•	Harvest of Energy
•	Estimates Of Wood Use By Bioenergy Projects Overstated; New Product Indicates 32% Success Rate (8-21-09)
•	Pennsylvania Township Issues Cease-And-Desist Order To Wood Pellet Company (8-14-09)
•	Australian Wood Pellet Mill Project In Doubt (8-14-09)
•	Mass. looks to forests for renewable energy source (8-17-09)
•	Weyerhaeuser News Release Offers a Surprise (8-16-09)
•	CU Burns 'Torrefied" Wood Instead of Pure Coal in Test (8-14-09)
•	Five Companies To Converge On Small Pennsylvania Town For Biomass Project (8-12-09)