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  2. Certified wood - Wikipedia

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    A managed forest on San Juan Island in Washington.. Certified wood and paper products come from responsibly managed forests – as defined by a particular standard. With third-party forest certification, an independent standards setting organization (SSO) develops standards for good forest management, and independent auditing companies issue certificates to forest operations that comply with ...

  3. American Tree Farm System - Wikipedia

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    Emmett N. McCall was certified as the nation's first individual tree farmer. [3] In the early 1940s the concept of "tree-farming" on private land was promoted by American Forest Products Industries, a subsidiary of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in an organized campaign to engage timberland owners in conservative timber ...

  4. Forest Stewardship Council - Wikipedia

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    FSC certified wood products contribute to score up to 2 points in the LEED v4.1 credit 'Sourcing of Raw Materials'. [48] In addition, FSC certified wood products can contribute to score up to 1 point in the LEED v4.1 pilot credit 'Social Equity within the Supply Chain'. [49] BREEAM awards credits for FSC certified wood products in the Mat 03 ...

  5. The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are ... - AOL

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    For now, it's only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern ...

  6. List of inventoried hardwoods in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Native to every region of the US. An important source of pulp and engineered wood products. Often used in landscaping, but the aggressive roots can damage nearby structures. Uses: timber; landscaping, pulpwood, veneers. [139] NC KY, the eastern Midwest, the Mid-Atlantic and New England

  7. The Collins Companies - Wikipedia

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    Before TD Collins died in 1914, he owned, along with others, a large number of sawmills in the Tionesta Valley of Pennsylvania, over 60,000 acres (240 km 2) of timberland, the Tionesta Manufacturing Company, the Nebraska Box Mill, the Mayburg Chemical Plant, plus over 100 miles (160 km) of logging railroad, 41 miles (66 km) of main line, 25 locomotives, several oil companies, and a bank.

  8. Raven Industries - Wikipedia

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    Raven Industries, Inc. is an American company that makes precision agriculture products and information management tools for growers. Before a series of acquisitions in 2021, it also had an Engineered Films segment that produced plastic films for various agricultural and industrial applications, as well as an Aerostar Industries segment that designed and manufactured high-altitude balloons ...

  9. Wood processing - Wikipedia

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    Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing. The major wood product categories are: sawn timber, wood-based panels, wood chips, paper and paper products and miscellaneous others including poles and railway sleepers. Forest product processing technologies have undergone extraordinary advances in some of the above categories.