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New Hampshire Lumber Woes
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 Trade disputes over US and Canadian lumber companies is just the latest in a line of challenges that are facing timber owners. Add to that the continued fallout from the pulp mill closing in Berlin and the constant tensions between timber owners and environmentalist groups. Today on the Exchange we'll look at our state's timber industry, the challenges they're facing and how these changes may alter the future of the industry. Laura's guests are Jasen Stock, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association; Steve Blackmer, founder and president of the Northern Forest Center and Sarah Smith, Forest Industry Specialist with the UNH Cooperative Extension.
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I hope you reach Steve Walker, President of New England Wood Pellet based in Jaffrey. He has become a major user of waste wood and provided substantial employment producing biomass fuel.
Dear Ms. Knoy,
Our forests are beautiful to look at and, to a large degree, define the Northeast.
Timber harvesting is hard and dangerous work. We should support, and possibly subsidize, lumbermen who earn much less money than they should for their efforts and exposure to injury.
I look forward to listening to you and your guest's discussions related to logging in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Questions I might ask and items of interest in particular to me include:
1. A logger’s life… how much money might he or she expect to earn in a year?
2. Clear cutting vs. selective cutting.
3. Chipping tops and tree waste.
4. Steep slope logging methods and erosion mitigation.
5. Mechanized or large scale logging vs. small scale or using livestock instead of skidders.
6. Forest fire potential in the Northeast…history of fires in the Northeast?
Sincerely,
Will Hill
Piermont, NH