Search Results: 'Forest Service'

Ridgeons’ celebrates employee achievements
09 October, 2013
Ridgeons has celebrated employees’ extraordinary achievements in its recognition awards.

Salvage plans for national forest timber
03 October, 2013
An estimated one billion bd ft of fire-ravaged timber could be salvaged from the Yosemite Rim where fires devastated large areas of Sierra Nevada this summer .

Ridgeons uses acquisitions as springboard for future
19 September, 2013
East Anglian-based timber and builders merchant Ridgeons is predicting renewed activity in the coming months on the back of an improved construction sector and the successful integration of three Build Center branches.

UK debut for automated wood ID tool
13 July, 2013
A new automated system to identify commercial timber was demonstrated in the UK this week in what could provide timber traders with a quick method of checking the source of wood.

Danzer rejects Greenpeace’s EUTR approach
03 July, 2013
A Greenpeace demand for action over an alleged illegally sourced load of wenge logs at a Danzer veneer factory in the Czech Republic has been described as “misleading” by the company.

New haulage route takes strain off local roads
08 February, 2013
A £1.5m forest haulage route will take 1.1 million tonnes of timber off local roads in Dumfries-shire over the next quarter of a century.

Beetle guidance updated
03 January, 2013
Updated guidance on detecting and managing the threat to spruce forests from the great spruce bark beetle has been published by the Forestry Commission.