LOUDON Restoring historically significant buildings requires a commitment to not only preserving the physical structures, but also keeping alive the skills that went into building them centuries ago. Today the Cabots, who were active in community theater in Milwaukee before moving to New Hampshire in 1996, are undertaking a series of restoration projects on the 600-acre farm that utilize the old tools and techniques. In addition a community of people with special skills in traditional...

A short time later the additional message was received that he was probably fatally injured and this was soon followed by the word that the injured man had passed away. he is employed as fireman on the locomotive which hauls the logging trains from the woods to the Champion Sawmills. Details of the accident are extremely meager and it is surmised that the engine was overturned. James Feeley received a telephone message at 8:30 p. to the effect that his only surviving brother, Matthew...

trade officials will meet in Ottawa on Thursday in an attempt to resolve a brewing dispute that threatens to derail the seven-month old softwood lumber agreement. Trade Representative Susan Schwab accusing Canadian lumber producers of exceeding their export quotas and provincial and federal governments of unfairly subsidizing the beleaguered Canadian forestry industry. Schwab's March 30 letter sets out a litany of complaints against Canada that she says contravene the lumber trade deal...

About 50% of tropical timber globally comes from this sprawling islandand the Malaysia plywood industry has been logging furiously. Borneo's rain forest cover is shrinking at alarming rates, but this island is still a remarkable haven of biodiversity and an eco-tourism dream. It's one of the last sanctuaries of biodiversity (new animal and plant species are still being discovered there) in a world getting more cemented-over with each passing year. Meanwhile, poachers and hunters continue...

I did know that the timber industry is important to the state economy, so decided to do a little research. The postwar generation also witnessed a significant change in mill and forest-land ownership. Bids for the timber flooded in. Bobby Joes company had sent him to oversee the job after they out bid all their competitors on a lucrative government contract. On the way home I felt a sense of relief, secure in the knowledge that our great forests are in the hands of people like Bobby Joe....

The report shows that Wisconsin would seem to have particular strength in so-called forest residues - waste products from forestry, and the pulp and paper industry, that could be converted into fuel. Biofuels and ethanol production is booming amid concerns over the nation's reliance on foreign oil and as a way to reduce the use of fossil fuels. The report also says Wisconsin's nearly 15 million tons of potential biomass could produce 1.3 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol a year -...