Woodland News

Travis Cunningham is one of FORECON’s Staff Foresters and is based out of the Titusville, Pennsylvania office.

The most recent Hardwood Leader (September 2020), a publication put out monthly by the Hardwood Publishing Co., Inc., looked at export markets for both hardwood lumber and logs.

A recent study (July 29, 2020) done by the United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA FAS) shows another promising market outlet for our quality US hardwood resources.

The voice of forest landowners, The Forest Landowners Association (FLA) is a national advocate for forest landowners and businesses.

It’s been 5 ½ months now since the COVID-19 Pandemic unofficially established itself in the US, and we’ve heard everything from predictions of doomsday to predictions for a steady recovery from this virus. 

For a while now, engineers and scientists have been developing a wood-based product for use in construction projects that would otherwise normally require steel or concrete as the main structural support material. 

Hardwood forestland owners have had the benefit of a geographically wide and diverse marketplace for hardwood timber for quite some time. 

While we are encouraged by the news that other Southeast Asian markets are developing for our hardwood resource (see article on Vietnam’s role in hardwood consumption), it is very heartening to hear as well that Chinese demand for both hardwood logs and lumber is apparently on the rise again

Glen Underwood is one of FORECON’s Forest Technicians and is based out of the Cortland, New York office.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture announced that 12 counties have been added to Pennsylvania’s spotted lanternfly quarantine zone ahead of the 2020 spring hatch.