The Montana Wood Products Association
The Montana Wood Products Association was founded in 1972 and serves as a major voice for the wood products industry while actively dealing with timber, logging, and wood products manufacturing issues in the public arena, and with state and federal government.Mission Statement: To promote healthy forests and healthy communities through management of Montana’s forests.
The Latest Headline News Links
3 UM forestry professors receive $1.1M grant to study biomass (The Missoulian, 10/4/2011)
…The University of Montana announced Monday that three forestry professors...…
Missoula development business to buy former Stimson lumber site in Bonner (The Missoulian, 10/4/2011)
…A local development business is preparing to buy...…
Analysts say Montana mills may be near sustainable level (The Missoulian, 10/2/2011)
…After several years of contractions and downturns...…
No timber suppliers bid on contract to feed UM's biomass boiler (The Missoulian, 10/2/2011)
…For schools in western Montana that have switched...…
Putting Lawsuits before Results: Environmental... (The Missoulian, 10/2/2011)
…Nearly everyone, environmental groups, timber companies...…
With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors (The New York Times, 10/1/2011)
…WISE RIVER, MONT - The trees spanning many of the mountainsides...…
USDA announces $80M for research Into biofuels (The Billings Gazette, 9/28/2011)
…YAKIMA, WASH - The US Department of Agriculture is awarding $80 million in grants...…
Biomass can provide our country energy independence (The Missoulian, 7/7/2011)
…The concept of getting energy from plant material…
The Nature Conservancy and Future Forest Joint Op-Ed (Forest Business Network, 7/6/2011)
…As the smoke clears from one of the largest fires in Arizona's history...…
US Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell Testifies Before Senate Committee (Evergreen Magainze, 7/6/2011)
…Chief Tidwell testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources...…
Western Governors' Turn Focus to Wildfires (Seattle Times, 6/30/2011)
…Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said Thursday that one of her biggerst fears...…
Seeking a Better Forest Climate (Helena IR, 6/29/2011)
…As the new Executive Vice-President of the Montana Wood Products Association…
Looking in on the Southwest Crown Forest Collaborative Effort (Beartooth NBC News, 6/23/2011)
…Southwest Crown Collaborative program fly-over…
Montana Forestry Minute (KGVO Radio, 6/22/2011)
…MSU Extension Forester and Professor at U of M School of Forestry and Conservation, Dr. Peter Kolb, delivers Forestry 101…
Partnerships & Collaboration: Our Hope for the Future (Evergreen Magazine, 6/22/2011)
…Speech given by FS Associate Chief, Mary Wagner to Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition…
USDA Forest Service Awards Nearly $3 Million for Renewable Energy Projects (USDA, 6/22/2011)
…Three Montana projects to receive federal funding. Pyramid Mountain Lumber, FH Stoltze Land and Lumber and U of M.…
