With 10.4 million acres of timberlands in the United States and long-term licenses covering 14.1 million acres in Canada, Weyerhaeuser is the ...

Canadian lumber producers have their eyes on a big cash prize if the Biden administration gives into pressure from home builders and members of Congress to begin talks with Canada on a new softwood ...

Tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber have climbed to 45%, following a recent increase of 10% on lumber and 25% on engineered wood products. UBC faculty of forestry associate professor Harry Nelson says ...

Canada’s lumber industry is warning of a crisis as the B.C. government and Ottawa prepare for a softwood summit to discuss ...

Sinclar Group Forest Products says about 350 employees will have their hours cut by 40 per cent as it scales back production ...

Lumber futures rose the most in more than a year on concern that wildfires in western Canada will reduce supply and spur more curtailments at sawmills. British Columbia, Canada’s biggest exporter of ...

VANCOUVER - Canadian lumber giant West Fraser will expand five of its sawmills in the southern U.S. as its sales boom. The company attributes sky-high demand for housing and remodeling. "Low mortgage ...

As announced by Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) will make it easier for the country’s softwood lumber businesses to access to $700 million in new term ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun 2013) (14 pages) ABSTRACT. We compared the resilience to economic shocks—such as the downturn of the U.S. housing market—of commodity sawmills, which tend to ...

One of the biggest impediments to home construction recently has been the availability and cost of raw materials. Lumber, in particular, has been getting a lot more expensive lately — prices are up ...